Green Collage
July 13, 2011
Green collage created from my stash of green magazine clippings and fabric scraps for Jane Davies’ online class Unlocking the Secrets of Color. The assignment was to create a composition using only one color.
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Collage Color Wheel
July 8, 2011
For this color wheel I chose colors from magazine clippings from the stash I’m collecting for future collages. I tried to select the pure colors achieved on color wheels mixed from primary colors and not toned down shades. I couldn’t resist including some that had images or texture in them to add interest and variety. … More Collage Color Wheel
Color studies
July 8, 2011
I painted three grids yesterday using various amounts of colors from around the color wheel. I like all three, but find the center one most visually pleasing. This was from Jane Davies’ online class Unlocking the Secrets of Color.
Four Color Wheels
July 7, 2011
I have a fair amount experience with color from quilting and from painting classes and understand color relationships on the color wheel, but never actually created one by mixing paint. Over the past week I created these mixing paint in Jane Davies’ online class Unlocking the Secrets of Color. In the first three color wheels … More Four Color Wheels
New Drawings
April 15, 2011
Owl Bookend Charcoal March 2011 Intermediate Drawing assignment with a focus on using a full range of value to show light and shadow. Foot Pastel – April 2011 This is my second drawing of this foot cast. The extremities – hands and feet – can be an expressive part of painting or drawing, but so … More New Drawings
Quick Portraits
March 31, 2011
Portrait 2 & 3 Another quick in-class painting, this time with a limited palette of a complimentary pair of colors – blue and orange – plus black and white. Assignment was to keep it moving, making intuitive decisions and using lots of paint. Last week’s in-class portrait. Limited palette again, mostly mixtures of yellow and … More Quick Portraits
Quick Portrait
March 13, 2011
Portrait 1 Our in-class assignment for the next few weeks is to create quick portraits of classmates during the class period. Our teacher wants us to continue to paint loosely with lots of paint and make quick decisions. We probably would want not paint this way ultimately, but Eva feels it is a valuable exercise … More Quick Portrait
Strawberry Danish
March 3, 2011
Intermediate painting class started mid-February and our first assignment was baked goods with our inspiration being Wayne Thiebaud, David Hockney, Edouard Manet, Tracey Miller, and others who paint them so lusciously. Our assignment was to bring in a baked item and paint it as a single subject. A major goal was to stay loose, using large brushes … More Strawberry Danish
Say no more!
February 24, 2011
As a new blogger I wonder what to share on my blog and what to say about my art. Today I found blog by Richard Pearse showing his amazing quilt-like pieces made of painted wood. There is virtually no writing on the blog! Just picture after beautiful picture. Check out Richard Pearse’s blog – who … More Say no more!
This is a Quilt!
February 9, 2011
Yellow Shoes I photographed this pair of yellow mismatched shoes that I saw in a shop window while walking on a rainy day in San Francisco’s North Beach. The shop was filled with great vintage and hand tailored clothes and shoes. It served as an inspiration for my quilt with the image of the shoes … More This is a Quilt!
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