{give it a go}...

A Sundance catalog painting by artist Rebecca Puig, inspired my painting.

I really found the painting unique so I thought "just give it a go and try

it yourself".

She's titled expressing thanks.

My painting is a personal reflection of me . 

 And when I display it in my home it speaks directly

to, or perhaps is speaking to me from my soul. 

Jeanne Carbonetti said "that when we create from the unity of

body, mind, and spirit, we are one with our muse, and our work

is always original, and always powerful".

I think she's correct.

the inspiration

{Collage Face #2}...

Collage #2 for Raven Cafe Art Show

Continuing with my experiments in collage.

If nothing else I am learning how to make my face paintings work.  Seems with enough

layering you can make them look nice.



{watercolor flowers}...

Wow, that's a post title I never thought I'd make when I first started my blog.

Blogging can really help put things into perspective

and act as a chronicle to your changing's.  (I don't think that's a real word, but I'm using it anyway)

Your changing's

in style,

in media,

in your interests,

your focus,

your progress,

your triumphs,

your hopes and dreams realized,

and yet to come... 

YES You Can!

Well that said nothing about watercolor painting.

But it was fun and never the less it's ~ it.

Have a great Sunday ;-)

{photo painting}...

Painting practice.

This time I painted over a canvas photo that was nice

but not very interesting.  So what better item to trying painting over ~

nothing to lose.

All in all I am pretty pleased with it.

And I am ready to try some more.

{the art of silliness...}

 I'm not comfortable drawing and want to learn to draw with more ease and enjoyment.

So with the help from The Drawing Lab book.  I drew 100

cats from different references.  This is one I took

to the next level by creating a canvas painting from it from the 1st lesson.

The book.

I love her style of drawing and the book's lessons are fun

(or at least could be if I wasn't stressing about drawing )and easy enough to do. 

The online class

While blog hopping I found this class by the Carla Sonheim, the author

of the book Drawing Lab.

This looks like an excellent class to complement the book and

help keep me focused on it for a least a month.

You can find the outline for the class here. 

So while I could just follow the book, her online class is so affordable.

And it just plan feels good to support someone offering online classes

at such a reasonable cost..

{Les Femmes des Montage ~ gearing up}

Do I really know what I'm doing?

I just might.

This painting came out as good as I could have hope for.
I was not sure I could do it.

The inspiration came from this picture in Somerset Studio for Stampington's 2010 calendar. It might be by Misty Mawn.




And my original sketch

of the nine of us.

Ok, so who's who????

Playing with a couple ideas for the Les Femmes des Montage postcard. We thought we would do something different this year. It's our 5th year. ;-) I painted it. But it will take someone with more experience in Photoshop then me to get it ready for printing.

The "frame" was done with the mouse in Photoshop

On the painting it could be a better size and a bit neater.