Saturday, December 29, 2018

Pelican Pete

New class for a new year.  I will be teaching this for my local painting chapter in January.  It's been an eventful year and I'm not quite ready to look back and take stock.  It has certainly been a year of upheaval in a lot of different lives.  Each and every one of us has to take life one day at a time and right now that is all I can do.  May the coming year be just a little LESS eventful!

Monday, June 4, 2018

Bruce the Beta


Bruce is actually Bruce #2.  He lives in my husband's home office and swims happily around all day in his lovely aquarium. The first Bruce wasn't as colorful and flashy as this Bruce.  When I was thinking ahead to painting class submissions I thought Bruce would be an interesting subject and something that would appeal to a wide variety of painters. It was very challenging to come up with a way to teach him in the time constraints of a classroom setting.  The first painting steps are negative painting with a few washes of color to get him started. This is what I taught at the SDP conference in Daytona in May and then again to my chapter this last Saturday.  So there are lots of Bruce paintings swimming around now!

Monday, April 23, 2018

SPRING FLING 2018

Spring Fling 2018 has come and gone!  I found a darling metal catchall organizer at Hobby Lobby and decided it would make the perfect centerpiece for my table.  And for table favors for each of my "guests" I created these darling cross body bags with a very generous outside pocket - perfect to keep that all important phone handy when out shopping!  I was really ambitious when making these so a few extras were created and can now be found in my Etsy store.  Check them out!




Wednesday, January 10, 2018

EXPLORE!

Happy New Year!  My word for this year is Explore!!  New ways to make art, new destinations, new ideas and ways of thinking about life in general.  Some of the ways to accomplish this is with new art classes.  I am participating in a couple of new online classes that started the beginning of this month.  One deals with creating new art each week to create a series.  I don't normally work in series mode so this should be interesting.  Everyone participating seems to have a different idea of what a series could or should be.  Looking forward to seeing how everyone approaches this.  The second online class is called the ART Studio with Kelly Hoernig.  I have taken many classes from Kelly and she is very adept at challenging everyone to reach deep into the well.  One of the first assignments was to gathering together a group of objects that describes YOU.  Here is my collection and I am quite pleased with how it came together.  What would your collection say about you?