Wealth
This is another page in my Gut Art book. I glued the shapes onto a prepared background. The shapes were cut from my favorite painted paper…old telephone book pages. The writing was a quote from an old dictionary page…it just happened to be on my art table so I used it. I had been hearing so much about Sharpie Poster-Paint Pens and I tried them. They do write over almost anything.
Watercolor Play
Hello…I’m back! It’s been awhile. I really haven’t been doing a whole lot of art lately…I’ve been getting ready for Thanksgiving…now that it is over…whew…I can relax a bit. I have started a project…two, to be exact. I am making two booklets from security envelopes that I plan to fill with photos, cards with quotes or anything else that comes to mind. I will use magazine pics, decorative papers, old dictionary pages and some of my art to embellish the pages of the books. If you would like to see more clearly what I am talking about, visit Patty at River Bend Ranch and watch this short video:
http://ramblingrose.typepad.com/journal/page/2/
The photo below is a page I did earlier in my Gut Art book. The class has ended but I have a few things from the class that I have not posted yet. This started as a page from a Coach catalog. I put a thin layer of gesso and then used watercolors all over the page, letting them drip from top to bottom. Then I used some decorative papers and painted with acrylics and stamped over the page. I see a sheep’s head and body if I look closely. The head is to the left of the dark watercolor drip.
Making Discoveries
I was going to call this “serendipity” but somehow “making discoveries” had a better fit. One definition of serendipity is “ making a chance discovery.” Other meanings are blessing, good luck or happenstance.
This piece was done on cardboard…a wonderful canvas…didn’t cost anything and it’s a way of recycling. I started with some collage papers and colored india ink. I kind of lost most of the collage papers but it you look closely, you can see a musical note or two on the jar the woman is holding. Also down in the lover right hand corner is some paper with dots shining through.
Weary
Here’s another page in my gut art book. I was doodling on the page with my woodless graphite pencil…looked down and there she was. I could also see the beginning of the big Tulip. I refined the drawing and then used acrylic paints to “color” it in. I am loving the new paint color (for me)…transparent viridian green. I also used some collage papers on the Tulip.
Blue Shadows
I saw another face in my gut art book today. After spreading the paint around, I could see the eyes first, and so, here she is. This is the last week of the class but Mystele is planning to keep the class going through part of November. I really have learned a lot from her as well as some of the other artists in the class.
Geisha Girl
I had a piece of watercolor that I was using to spread leftover paint all over it. I picked it up the other night when I was cleaning up my art space and I saw an eye, I quickly drew in another one with a paint brush and black paint. Then I drew the nose with the brush. I have problems drawing lips so I thought I should use a pencil and draw one on first but when I started to draw with the brush, I could see my pencil line. It worked like it is so I didn’t change anything. I had a battle with myself not to add to this…the only other thing I did was define the head-piece she is wearing.
Beryl
I finished another page in my gut art book. The base was an old dictionary page and I collaged some of my painted papers onto it. I used layers of acrylic paint spreading it over the page with an old credit card. Then I saw the beginning of her face and I took it from there. If you look up beryl in the dictionary, it means either green or blue….blue-green.
Crimson Glow
I completed a page in my gut art book last night. The base is an advertisement card pulled from a fashion magazine and measures around five by seven inches. I put collage papers down first, then covered them with acrylic paint. I put several layers of paint down spreading it with an old credit card and drying it in between layers. Next I looked for an image. I could see the eyes first so I took it from there sketching in the rest of the face with a pencil. Then I used a brush and swished on more paint and finished by using charcoal to add lines.
Freedom Flowers
Here is another page in my gut art book. It went fast and free…I started with a doodle and decided to develop it into a painting. My new favorite paint color is thio violet. It’s made by Grumbacher…their Academy Acrylic line of paint. I love it! It’s very affordable when compared to some other brands. I want to try some of the other colors. I found it at Misterart and from reading the reviews about the paint, I decided to give it a try. Thio violet is difficult to find, according to one of the reviewers. I know that I have never seen it anywhere before. Dick Blick also has this line of paint but they do not offer as many colors there, plus, I had to search to find it by putting the name of the paint in the search box at the top of their page. Many artists love the Golden line of paint. I have three small bottles of Golden paint and so far, I haven’t discovered what all the flap is about…maybe I haven’t used them often enough to know the difference?
Sweet Repose
Another busy week is drawing to an end. I haven’t had as much time as I would have liked to work on my art this week. We are in week two of Mystele’s Gut Art Class. I finished another piece today. We have assignments to go on “field trips” via the net. I love doing this because it stretches our minds and informs us about various cultures, etc. and their art. This week, one of the trips sent us to investigate various Native American pottery. Another thing I particularly noticed this week was that most everything we looked at reminded me of autumn colors… or so, it seemed to me. This piece was done on a piece of tea box from my gut art book. I used collage papers, black marker and layers of acrylics and Caran d’Ache crayons.
