The Rythms and Patterns of Life
This is my third piece for the Gut Art class I am taking. This is the result of the “field trip” I took via the internet last Friday. I finished it tonight…I was kind of stuck and didn’t know what to do with it. I decided that I had to try something, it had been sitting on my art table for two days. It is on a piece of watercolor paper which I will glue in my gut art book at some point. I used acrylic paints, Caran d’Ache crayons and watercolor pencils. The flowers were collaged on and embellished with crayon and paint.
“To create one’s own world, in any of the arts, takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color For Your Eyes!
This is a great video! For your late Friday evening or Saturday viewing or any time viewing…please enjoy!
Do Something Different!
This is the second page in my gut art book. As part of the class, our assignment was to watch a video and this piece is the result of viewing that. The base of the page is watercolor paper. First, I did a wash of paint. Then I used various papers…construction, magazine, scrapbook, and painted phone book pages. This class is my third online class and it is by far, the best one I have taken.
Here are some pages from my gut art book that started out as a composition book. These pages will be my canvas for the next few weeks:
Change Comes Slowly
I did my first piece in my Gut Art book today. I collaged the page first, then added paint. I saw her face immediately and quickly sketched it in and then painted it using arcrylic paint. I had a lot of fun painting her but I was disappointed with how my scanner faded the colors in the piece. I may have to start taking photos with my camera.
Gut Art Class
I’m finished at school now…back to my art. I signed up for a class with Mystele called Gut Art. I really am learning a lot, she has tons of videos to watch. If you want to find out more about it, click on the Gut Art link over on the sidebar. I started on my book for the class last Friday night and worked off and on all weekend on it. I have the book put together but need to add paper and paint. The only page I have finished is an introductory page that I altered from an old Dr. Seuss book, If I Ran the Zoo. The old book is falling apart and a page or two is missing so I thought I would use a few pages in my Gut Art book. The paper is very heavy and will take lots of paper bits and paint. On the page shown here, little Gerald down in the corner is now Geraldine 
If you are familiar with the book, you will recognize other changes as well.
New Art Book
I was looking on Amazon this morning and found a new book that is just out. It looked so interesting that I found a link at Amazon over to Diana Trout’s (the author) website. It’s called Hub Bub …..here’s the website adress: http://dianatrout.blogspot.com/ The website has a great video of Diana doing a mixed media self portrait. It also has another showing how to make a yo-yo bracelet. I do not recall ever seeing anything about Diana before, so, it was a wonderful find.
After checking out her website, I had to go back to Amazon and order the book. I also found some great videos by Diana on You Tube. Here’s what the new book looks like:
Altered Book
Greetings! I did work in my altered book for a little while last evening. This is the first book I have ever altered and I’m learning what not to do on the next one I alter. For one thing, I need more images. I will try and build up a big stash of collage images suitable to use in another book. Hopefully, I will have enough to finish up this project. One more week in kindergarten
More Collages Revisited
As I mentioned in the last post, I really enjoyed doing these simple paper collages. Here are some more that came from my composition glue book finished late last year.
I have another week and a half and I will be finished with my teaching obligations. I’m anxious to get back to my art journal and take some online classes. I want to expand my art horizons and try some new techniques (new to me, that is).
Collages Revisited
I thought I would post some of my early collages (since I haven’t had time to do any new art lately). These are strictly paper and glue. In fact, I used to belong to a group called Glue Books. All of these were glued into composition notebooks like we once used in school. I had so much fun making these…I should give it another go sometime soon.
New Book – Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed Media Artists
This is my latest art book purchase from Amazon. I skimmed it really fast and now I’m going back and reading it and enjoying all of the art work in it. Ann Baldwin is the artist. She started out primarily as a watercolorist. In the introduction to this book, she explains how she gradually changed to doing mostly mixed media. The book is beautiful as well as informative. Some of the chapters are about “experiments in texture, layering paint and found images, and combining words and paints.” If you are looking for a book that gives step by step how-to, do not buy this book. However, you do get many tips and techniques. Most of the artwork in the book is by the author. The last chapter in the book has art by contributing artists. The book is spiral bound and will lay flat. It is published by Quarry Books. I don’t think you will be disappointed if you decide to purchase this book too.
