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.
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Dana O
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| Deborah J |
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| Robin M |
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| Deborah J |
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| Deborah J |
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| Jill O |
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| Carol P |
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| Jean E |
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| Judi O - work in progress |
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| Denise B - work in progress |
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| Jayne B |
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| Christi C - to be fired |
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| Suzanne A |
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| Julie J |
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Here are a few designs that I played with....
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I started with a traditional mandala, compass created.
| Felt much more "me" hand drawing a mandala. Remember always, we each are our very own unique artist. And each moment we come to our art table full of supplies, we are yet a new artist again!
Be in the Moment. Carpe Diem! The Muse must find us working....
 | Here's another hand drawn mandala, but this one has a neurographic word as the base. Then I threw color into the mix, and my favorite doodle. It just seemed to grow... which led to >
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| So on this large piece of paper, 14 x 17 Bristol, I started playing with my favorite symbol again from the wee bit of collage I glued from some color swatches I painted earlier in the month. And from those doodles the doodles morphed and turned and moved and danced....it was such a meditation to let my hand move the way it wanted but keeping with the original doodle. I used a sharpie...my favorite pen for permanent ink. |
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| And because the last "doodle" was ever so fun, I chose two different symbols/doodles and started this piece the same way, with a simple cutout from old painting collaged onto the paper, and then doodled away for about an hour. More of these are in my future!!! Try it yourself, it is oh so soothing and calming. |
Join us!
There's plenty of creativity, inspiration and fun to go around.
Here's our schedule of classes for May.
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More info on my Art classes here.
Get in touch
if you wish to join us for a month or more of classes
and see if you get inspired!
Blessings, Joanie
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