Blue shapes

This one went through so many incarnations that I lost count...

Abstract with flower

I used to think that painting abstracts is a walk in the park. After all, they are just circles and squares, right? Of course, I was wrong. I am spending an insane a mount of time painting these abstracts for the classes I am taking with Julie and Chris, but I am pleased with the results and I am having fun. That's what counts, right?

Gradient

I went AWOL lately because I am taking three classes with Julie Prichard and Chris Cozen over at the Land of Lost Luggage, a sketching class with Alisa Burke and a fiction writing class. So far, I am enjoying the process but it takes a while to finish a piece. That's ok because the paintings will be better.

Here are two of them. The exercise was to create a gradient of color using glazes.

Remains of the day finished

I am done! Yepee! Here is the final look:

All in all, it turned out nice, but it took a while to finish. Maybe for somebody well organized who has the scraps neatly stored in bins and bags, the whole process is faster. I also realized that I have enough stuff collected to make about ten of these! I think I will use it for quick scketches after I coat the shiny pages with absorbent ground.

Recycled journal page

Strathmore runs three free workshops on their website here. I followed Pam's instructions and decided to produce a recycled journal page. I photocopied older pages to use as background, not as focal points. I found an image that qualified as a focal point ... kind of ...the resulting page is this:

 

oooouch ... I was not about to abandon the fight when faced with adversity ... right? So I decided to use my papers as background and magazine images as focal point. The new pages started like this:

And finally, they became this:

Stabilo pen and watersoluble pastels.