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
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
Twig Salad I started this quilt as part of a challenge by The Modern Quilt Guild to create a monochromatic quilt. I played with various options and decided to also add one further challenge for myself: to see if the quilt could meet requirements for the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Sense of Adventure traveling … More Sense of Adventure
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
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
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!
I started making fabric postcards several years ago when the Art2Mail fabric swap was first organized through the Quiltart mailing list. I participated in the swap a couple times, then had to drop out due to time constraints. Since then I’ve made fabric postcards off and on as time allowed and whenever the spirit moved … More Art to Mail
Just completed this baby quilt to welcome a new baby in Bacho, Tanzania. My quilt guild EBHQ is teaming up with the Karimu Foundation of Santa Cruz to make and send 50 baby quilts for newborns in a remote village in NE Tanzania. Next summer, volunteers will hand deliver these quilts to mothers in this village. … More Bacho Baby Quilt
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!
Priscilla Read - Art Journey 