Bringing a book to life, the journey
In the early part of 2019 I was involved in a sketchbook challenge that given to the members of the Art2Life Academy by Kerry Schroeder and Susan Melrath. We were challenged to create a sketchbook entry every day. Something quick, fun, and unrestrictive in pro...
Incorporating Collage as a Mark
This was the final week of the workshop and the goal is to try to focus on using collage as a mark and then develop those collage marks by adding lines, scribbles, pattern, drips, spatters etc. I'm presenting these in their stage in progresslThe final piece feels e...
Hand made brushes!
This was a super fun week of making our own brushes. The goal was to create brushes that will reflect hand movements and gestures. I used both high flow paint and india ink.
My five brushes consisted of strands of cotton string, soft fabric netting, wheat threads with the se...
Draw, Scribble, Fling...
This week was the week to draw, scribble and fling!
I spent the week using house paint in collaboration with paint-markers and fine pen lines.
The first part of the week I tried to acquire some sort of control over dripping house paint from a wooden stick. Since t...
Drips, drops and spatters with liquid acrylic...
First I applied High Flow liquid acrylic paint directly from the bottle. The paper was held vertically to see how the drips formed vertical lines.
Next I did the same thing, but used a plastic pipette to apply the paint. This allowed for a littl...
Paint Scribbles!
We experimented with making paint scribbles or masses using different brushes as well as a heavy body (thicker paint out of a tube) and liquid acrylics (thinner and flowed from a bottle). I was able to detect differences in the marks based on these variables. Again, the goal was ...
Starting off the New Year Learning
This year I started off I decided to ring in 2019 by participating in an online course by artist Jane Davies. I admire Jane’s work very much and has a great teaching reputation both through in person workshops and online. I’ve always been attracted to dr...
I am still continuing my quick studies and this time have focused on balancing out both busy areas and quiet areas in the same piece. It was really fun to consider what makes an area visually dense.
These are some basic elements:
High value contrast
Bright color next to neutral color
A...
This week I really wanted to strengthen my understanding of color's properties: value (light and dark), hue (shade), and saturation (intensity). I did some exercises where composition wasn't as important as the study of color. I limited my palette and worked monochromatically using either red, yello...
Recently I've been wanting to work on some quicker pieces that allow me to experiment with basic design fundamentals like composition, value, line etc. This past week I wanted to practice the idea of creating variety using black and white. I started by layering all different kinds of dark marks and ...
