I spent this weekend and will spend part of today, participating in the Art is Magic online Creative Retreat and it was wonderful. Sponsored by Galia Alena, it was a smorgasbord of classes presented by awesome teachers. A side effect of this retreat was to convince me to get busy working on the online classes with unlimited access that I have not worked on in Ages. I can have my own creative retreat just working on these classes.
I am going to post a few photo's of paintings and try to get the name of the teacher correct.
I have changed......what worked nearly 20 years ago is not working today. My thoughts are in a different place and so am I. The journey continues, come along for the ride.
Monday, July 10, 2017
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
#21Embody - Day 10 - Nose
Improving |
For today, this nose actually looks like a nose. Woohoo.
see you tomorrow....
#21Embody day 9 - Lips
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
#21EmBody - Day 8 Eye
The Eye |
see you later.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2017
#21Embody day 6 - In Position
Dancing Feet in Position |
see you tomorrow.....
Friday, March 10, 2017
#21Embody - Day 5 Hands
Hands of Love |
see you tomorrow.
Thursday, March 09, 2017
#21Embody - Learning to draw the Body days 1-4
When you try to do something you have never done before, it is really a crap shoot. I decided to participate in #21 Embody because my plan for this year is that if I sign up for anything new, it has to be free and this is a free challenge. Plus, and this is significant, the concept was new to me. Drawing singular body parts, I had never tried that and it is good to have in my artistic arsenal, especially for art journaling. Below are my interpretation of the parts of the body for the first four days, the lungs, the heart, the back and bones.
I like what I have done mostly because I was willing to try. I was thinking this morning that I may try collage for some parts. That is exciting because collage challenges me and I want to improve.
Lungs |
Heart |
The Back |
Bones - Back Bone |
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
What I have been up to
Been a few days since I posted. It has been really busy around here with a lot of church related activities. I have been able to squeeze in some art time.
The idea behind this 5x7 journal page was a swap hosted by Gisele Grenier. The premise for this page was to use the Movie The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock as inspiration. This background for this page is a wash of black and white acrylic paint. The bare trees are drawn free hand and the birds are an assortment of Stencil girl product birds. I forget that I can use stencils in my art projects and this one had great results.
The lung and the heart are works in progress, they need to be painted. I am participating in a 21 day challenge that seemed really interesting. It is call 21 embody and each day for 21 days you draw and paint a body part. These represent day 1 and 2 and I will spend the next couple of hours painting them and drawing day 3's body part. I tell you this is really interesting especially since I did not think I could really draw a realistic heart, who knew!!!!
For the Birds |
Human Lung |
the heart |
So, I am still working through the Paint Mojo class and will post some of that by Saturday.
see you soon, maybe tomorrow.
Thursday, March 02, 2017
Paint Mojo week 1
Batch of Ephemera 1 |
Bundle number 1 |
Ephemera batch 2 - tea dyed papers |
Ephemera Batch 3 |
Bundle 3 |
One of my favorites is ephemera batch 2 which includes papers that were part of a bundle soaked in tea last year while attending a class with Orly Avineri and Katie Kendrick on Bainbridge Island, Washington. For some reason the bundle did not download, but that is ok.
I think this is going to be a really eye opening experience. I started not to post these bundles because painting was not involved. This morning I realized that I am doing this for me and taking my readers along for the journey. As a result, I need to show all aspects of the process and that includes painting and non-painting exercises. There will be works in progress (WIP), swipes of paint on a page, marks and all sorts of things because the objective is not to come up with a masterpiece although that may happen. No, the objective is learn a process I have seen and wanted to learn for a long time.
So I am going to enjoy recording this journey so that I have a record of what I have learned. It will be swell for you to join me on this road of discovery.
see you soon.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
29 Faces challenge the end Days 26-29
Day 26 |
Day 27 |
Day 28 |
Number 29 |
Most important is that I kept the commitment.
My next project is working through a online class I won, Paint Mojo by Tracy Verdugo. I am so excited to spend the next 6 weeks working and enjoying.
so, see you tomorrow.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Playing Catchup - Days 23, 24 and 25 of 29 Faces Challenge
Day 23 side braid |
Day 24 Flowing hair |
Day 25 - Top Bun |
I find that painting sometimes changes the look and I like the effects of the drawing.
The Challenge is almost finished; however, I am committing to drawing more faces throughout the year. I am going to do a 100 face challenge and the best part is that I will have a 29 face head start. In this way I hope to perfect the painting of faces. I will post the faces as they are completed.
On the 28th I will announce my challenge for March.
see you tomorrow....
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Day 21 of 29 Faces Challenge
Monday, February 20, 2017
Day 20 of 29 Faces - It's all about the hair
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Day 18 of the 29 Faces Challenge
Deep in Thought |
See you tomorrow
Friday, February 17, 2017
Day 16 and 17 of 29 Faces Challenge
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Day 15 of 29 Face Challenge: trying new technique
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