Book of Spirits #2

Some of my friends are donating their interesting bottles while others I will happily purchase for the sake of art (Tank). I have 5 pages left in my Stillman & Birn journal and then I'm going to really challenge the paper by doing the flip side.

Book of Spirits

The collection is growing......

Last Assignment

Here's the last of the assignments from the online acrylic workshop. I have to admit, I did learn a lot of different things from the artist, Robert Joyner. One being how much I enjoy using the acrylic paints and inks with some mixture of charcoal and crayons.  The second is how free and liberating it is to use the abstract style and putting into a 1:1 ratio against the more concrete, realistic style of painting. I think I'm still weighing in more with realistic than abstract but I can work on that some more. It was a fun workshop for me and I'm looking forward to the next one at the Strathmore Online Workshops link. In May it will be on Sketching and Drawing with Toned Paper. Check it out and sign up....it's free!

Sketching and Drawing with Toned Paper

Roller Derby is making a ripple of a comeback. It's been struggling for the past few years. I went to a meet 5 years ago right in town at an old roller rink. They did have the sloped track and the skaters were able to get up to some fast speeds. Those two teams disappeared and never came back. Now I'm hearing some action is happening on the East coast and also on flat tracks. I don't know how the two tracks compare but having a skater get thrown half way over the rails would be missing on the flats.

 Getting Ready to Roll - Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, compressed charcoal. 12"x16"

Free Jammer -  Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, compressed charcoal. 12"x16"