My Rainy City art quilt will be shown at the Blue Line Gallery’s 2012 Annual Juried Membership Show in Roseville. Blue Line Gallery July 20 – August 18, 2012 Opening Reception July 21 – 7 – 9 pm Hours and Directions 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 Roseville, CA 95678 (916) 783-4117 Rainy City 31 1/2″x 40 1/4″
Yesterday I completed my Junk Mail Secret Diary and had enough left over gessoed and painted junk mail pages available to make a second book. I continued with the same process I learned in Carla Sonheim’s Junk Mail Artist’s Book class using my imagination to create drawings that overlapped onto the next page. When the page … More Another Junk Mail Diary
This week I took Carla Sonheim’s five day online class to create a Junk Mail Artist Book. The class is described as a “mixed-media-junkie’s dream project” where we would take junk mail, add gesso and watercolor along with other techniques to create a unique irregularly shaped puzzle book. Carla’s description and photos on her blog … More My Junk Mail Secret Diary
Last night was the final class for The Abstract in Nature where we presented our final projects for evaluation and critique. It was great to see our finished paintings up on the wall. The project is the culmination of several weeks of work with the goal of creating a multi-panel work showing the essence of … More Mount Diablo Abstractions Completed
One of the first assignments in The Abstract in Nature was to select a natural object and zoom in on it to create an abstract painting using only black, white, and grays. Prior to taking this class, I have concentrated on learning to draw realistically; this was a complete shift in thinking for me. It … More Rose Hips Abstracted
Our final project for The Abstract in Nature is to create a multi-panel painting (at least 2 canvases) showing the essence of a location in nature that we visited several times. Yesterday I revisited Mt Diablo and spent an afternoon sketching with ink and pastel looking at shapes and forms that were repeated large and small scale … More Mount Diablo Abstractions
In The Abstract in Nature, our latest assignment was to take a natural process and find a way to make a work of art from it. I decided to experiment with sumi ink on fabric and paper by dipping or dripping ink to see what effects I could get. I got some interesting effects and … More Inky Experiments
For the past month or so, I’ve been exploring ways to show horizon lines in paintings and drawings using collage elements on the horizon line. I started playing with this in Jane Davies’ online workshop Keys to Dynamic Composition. I started by making sketches from the view out my window, then sketches inspired by Van … More Horizon Project
Over the last 6 weeks, I’ve been taking an online class with Jane Davies, Exploring the Self Portrait. One of the greatest challenges for me was to quit worrying about how I could never get the portrait to look like me and to let myself explore the techniques and concept of the self portrait. Here … More Exploring the Self Portrait
Our final project for Jane Davies Image and Text online workshop was to create a small series of collages using any or all of the techniques we learned. I got behind the last week and finally created one quickly this morning. I didn’t have time to collect new images or work on it with the care that … More A quick little collage series
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