art @ the lake

We had perfect weather, wonderful instructors, great accommodations, tasty food, good artsy friends, fun, fun, fun, at Park Rapids, MN, over the weekend. i really will try to use "juicy" paint and be looser and improve my values and develope shapes and enhance my work.. wow, that is a big order.. Thanks, Janet Flom, for the inspiration and fun...

TRIPTYCH OF THE SEA!! GIFTED

I just finished this triptych (each measuring 16"x 20") of the ocean as i mentally see it.. It is a commission requested by my daughter-in-law for their home on the Oregon coast.. i absolutely love it... i just may do some more of these, in acrylic, on canvas............

Face Painting

I really enjoyed face painting on Saturday, but it was a cold, cold day.. Such darling kids came to have "works of art" painted on both of their sweet cheeks, arms & noses.

face painting..

I try a new venture tomorrow.. will be doing face painting @ a Sunflower Festival.. hope i don't make any little kids cry or worse, make their mothers cry............

Arang atang GIFTED

Boy, this was fun. I went to a Drip and Drizzle workshop @ Cormorant Village yesterday.. We dribbled black gloss acrylic over our drawing .. (everyone was doing animals and flowers).. then we washed with watercolor.. i really love this.. He has eyes, fingers and nostrils and a large tomato to suck on.

"Pot, Bottle, & Poppys"

This started as a 'demo' @ the Walhalla class in watercolors.. it was pretty pathetic.. I painted on it all day yesterday using some of the technics i showed them. Washes, salt application, shading, putting spots of color where you don't expect them... it turned out a little wilder that i thought it would.. i also dismissed some of the suggestions i gave the class.. we won't talk about that!!!.. but I love the background..

I didn't like the space between the subjects.. so  Wah-la I added the old blue bottle that i have painted many times plus some grapes on the left.. like it so much better.  Isn't art fun???