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A Cat Lady Paints Dogs - Sketchbook 3 of 4

Hello Fellow Creatives, Looks like I will need one more blog post after this to show all the pics. Here's 3 of 4. Hope you are enjoying my doggos! In SUMMARY - what I have learned and where has this inspiration led me.... I am most definitely learning about and teaching myself more design ideas for my sketchbooks. I used to just draw something on each page, and then turn the page. No order, no theme, which or course is not essential since a journal should be what you want it to be. But for many years I would paint a dog one day, a cup of coffee the next, some random art supplies on my desk the next...and I would lose inspiration. And as a result I had many an unfinished sketchbook. I also experimented with making my own sketchbooks which is way fun, and i highly recommend you try at least once to bind your own sketchbook with coptic stitch. But honestly i am happy when I can pick out my paper, take it to FedEx and have them attach a spiral binding to it and voila. ...instant sketch...

A Cat Lady Paints Dogs Sketchbook 2 of 4

And here we go with sketchbook 2, by the way, these are only highlights from volume 2. These books are burgeoning with drawing after drawing, sketch after sketch.

A Cat Lady Paints Dogs - Sketchbook 1 of 4

Hello there I have been working on a little project the last 3 months. A dear student gifted me a big book of dog black and white photographs. Every once in awhile I need to sink my teeth into something focussed.  So I decided to learn how to paint dogs. Meet Freya my new kitty! She is always lurking at my art desk....I suspect she is an artist in Catlandia. 

July August SUMMER FUN - animal portraits

Hello Folks and Happy Summer officially, I have been working behind the scenes on some new and fun ways to create our animal and pet portraits. I have filled lots of pages in my sketchbook as it is my alchemical laboratory, truly. First off here's a fun little graphic for the new Theme, starting in a week. The last week in July is a Vacation week....enjoy! So please note that Week One of July for Monday students is actually June 30th. So here are some animal portraits I have been experimenting with.  Gouche, acrylic, collage, and all sorts of mixed media.  Because, why not?  It's so much Fun! Those are all from my sketchbook, below are some independent paintings....larger (though not large at all) and on paper. Low Key Bunny Experiment High Key experiment Abstract painting, collage, negative painting and finesse!  Not done with this one, I am awaiting a delivery of some new type of markers, can't wait to play some more.  Looking for something creative to do this...

May Theme and a bunch of glorious Circle Art

Hello fellow creatives, Let's start with announcing the May Theme: Abstracted Landscapes. You can provide your own landscapes, city scapes, neighborhood scapes.....and I will lead you thru simplifying the composition and throw in a couple of Try This Color or Technique here.....to jostle your imagination and throw you off too much realism. It will be fun, nothing to be intimidated by, I promise.  As for April, all the artists were so brave to try some iteration of the following prompts - neurographic, mandala - either traditional or hand draw, and even lettering and doodles, it was all so inspiring to see what the artists came up with. I always encourage imagination and inspiration. I offer the seeds and the artists get to interpret those seeds any way they wish. And the results? Glorious! CIRCLE ART, here we go! We mostly used watercolor/gouache, white posca or gel pen, and ink permanent pens this month.

Student Chairs and April Theme - Circle Art

 I am so excited to share with you my talented students' work, but first a quick note to let you know what we will be working on this month of April. Circle Art!  We can call it Round art, or Zen art, or Mandala art.....you call it what you wish but we are going to start out with Color Mixing and Theory. A whole class full of it. So that whatever we fill our circles with, the colors will sing together in the most beautiful harmonies. Wk 2 I will introduce Neurographic art which is a deeply calming and therapeutic way to make art. Another approach I will share is how to construct and/or free draw a more classical mandala....adding similar art that mirrors itself around the quadrants of the circle. It's all yours to create as you wish. But all month we will be working in this shape, without blocked in corners like our usual squares and rectangles on paper or canvas as per usual. Supplies: my recommendation is a wetter media such as watercolor or gouache, or if you prefer acryli...
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