I’m taking a printmaking class! We are starting with jelli plates, and I made today, it will be set tomorrow. I didn’t buy enough glycerin so I made a smaller plate. And since I already have a purchased jelli plate, I decided to make the homemade one round, for fun. I also gathered lots of round things for making impressions […]
Monotype!!
Experiments with limited palette and not-the-usual mark making
I did this series of experiments as part of a class I’m taking. I don’t want to explain the actual assignment in detail since it’s someone’s course. I didn’t really limit palette that much, just tried to use up colors of ink and acrylic that I don’t like it used that much of. I worked from a reference photo of […]
Developing and enlarging sketchbook ideas
This is an exercise from the sketchbook class I’m finishing up. You focus on a page that you like and identify 5 marks and colors. Then you scale those up and repeat them on separate papers. I chose turquoise wash, sepia smudges, turquoise scratches, white lines and light brown transparent tissue paper collage. It didn’t occur to me that serious […]
Self esteem and @tiktoktraumadoc “Iffirmations”
The past few years I’ve been at the tail end of perimenopause. Hopefully will go into full menopause ANY DAY NOW PLEASE. It really is like going through puberty, so many changes, in every aspect of my life. I saw the video below on TikTok and really loved it. IFfirmations! In the Find Your Joy class I am taking, the […]
The art I’d like to make and what is in the way
If I imagine the art I would like to make in the future, I see large, haunting paintings, with rich colors, representational, but also odd, distorted and strange. But not creepy, just psychological. Symbolic. People see different things in them. They are layers, with some texture, but refined. They look like they took skill and people who look at them […]
Thoughts about Seth Godin on CreateLive
I’m taking an art course called Find Your Joy taught by artist Louise Fletcher. I’m just in the first week. She posted an interview with Seth Godin and much of it is about fear (embedded below). He also recommends that people blog every day. So I’m doing that, badly, but I just want to get into the habit of it. […]
Sketchbook fun!
I am taking a course called Free Up Your Sketchbook, and it is a lot of fun, very freeing. I am exploring abstraction more deliberately than I have done in the past. I do prefer representational work, but I really have been struggling with what imagery I want to work with, so, none for now. Instead I will loosen up […]