Took some of yesterday’s eye dropper faces and added watercolor. Watercolor is NOT my medium. I feel incompetent with watercolor…I think I subconsciously view it as a children’s medium, which makes my lack of skill even more frustrating. Of course, part of my problem is that I try to bend it to my will, which […]
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These faces were created quickly with ink in a dropper, following a prompt in Carla Sondheim’s Drawing Lab. I am kind of a control freak so this very UNcontrolled method was unpleasant and anxiety-producing at first! Eventually I came to enjoy it and quite like a few of them; I will go at some of […]
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In the spirit of my 2014 “I Dare Me!” challenge to do something new everyday, I just HAD to purchase this strange fruit that shared a shelf with rambutan and dragon fruit. It’s called Buddha Hand or Fingered Citron, and I have NO idea what to do with it…except photograph (and eventually draw) it!
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One of the things I enjoy about Art Every Day Month is viewing the works of other participants, and receiving their comments about mine. I’ve been enjoying Tobi Kibel Piatek’s “taking a line for a walk” pieces so tried one of my own. My lines were curvy one direction and straight the other. As I […]
I was reading about blackout poems the other day, and last night I had the urge to try one. Problem was, I was in a hotel room with no newspapers in sight. So, I used a page from the Gideon Bible! I think the results are somewhat Rumi-esque: I will be strong and courageous with […]
Last night I made a chili dinner for 36 of my cohousing neighbors. I billed it as “Grandma Nellie’s Famous Chili” but the reality is that in most of my memories, it was my father making the chili. (My mom never did.) There seemed to be only two types of cooking available to the men […]
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More iPad painting today. Several of my favorite art mentore point out the value of copying and tracing as learning tools. I find it terribly fun to download an image, trace the outline on another layer, delete the original and then just have my way with it! This Mona Lisa was done in about an […]
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Assignment #40 from Carla Sonheim’s Drawing Lab. I love this book – fifty-two prompts for getting started with a drawing. Because isn’t that often the hardest part, looking at that blank page and wondering what to do?
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Spent some time today experimenting with drawing on my iPad. Many of my colleagues use tablets for much of their graphic work but I do not enjoy it much. I haven’t practiced enough for it to flow effortlessly and keep wanting to JUST GRAB A PEN ALREADY!! Plus the results always seem crude, my line […]
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I spent several hours over the past two days listening to a webinar that was not particularly visual. To keep my mind focused, I doodled. (Studies show that doodling helps improve concentration and comprehension.) Here’s the result: the final doodle, and the results after playing around with special effects in my editing software. I think […]
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