These are two pages I made while “taking” the online Strathmore Visual Journaling Course. Pam Carriker led us through the process of using photocopies of some of our old collages, cutting them up and adding layers of gesso and paint prints. The top one uses portions of old collages and the bottom page does not. With the bottom page, I started by painting circular shapes with watercolor paints. I did some writing with white pens and smears of chalk pastels. … Read more…
The goals for this project are to Classify artworks as landscape, still-life or portrait. Identify and use foreground, middle ground, and background in two-dimensional works of art. Use size relationships and simple depth techniques to show space in an artwork. We learned about the artist Grandma Moses and created a winter collage using various materials. We read a couple books about Grandma Moses and looked at her artwork. These are two books about Grandma Moses which are great for this … Read more…
Another challenge I recently discovered is Michelle Ward’s street team crusade. There is a new technique every month and then you post your results. This month the challenge is “It’s a Wrap”. You are supposed to incorporate wrapping paper, tags or cards into your artwork. This is some Christmas wrapping paper, combined with my own drawing and painting. Overall, for an experiment I am fine with how they turned out. I would like to have been able to glue down … Read more…
In honor of reaching 100 followers on this blog, which in my opinion is really darn cool, I’m going to do a series of giveaways. In the spirit of sharing, decluttering and passing things on to good homes, please participate if you are interested in the giveaway offered. As an art teacher, subscribing to magazines, purchasing books, receiving other people’s art books and always being on the look out for good sales, I end up with way more things than … Read more…
watercolor sketchbook page
Mixed Media with two flower pictures and a flower painting. Scrapbook paper and watercolor paints were used.
Yay, I love Christmas. I’m not someone who likes to celebrate Christmas for two months with lights, decorations and music since Thanksgiving. But on the actual party days with families, I have a lot of fun. I’m also very excited because I have 2 weeks off of teaching to spend time with my darling baby girl and also to spend some time making art. Daria (who is 1 year and 2 months old) has started to become interested in coloring … Read more…
