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.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
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.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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!
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"
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.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Gone Fishing
I'm really getting into the loose style with the acrylic paints. The 3rd week of the workshop was to show reflections in water. I used a photo that I took a while ago at Dixon Lake of a fisherman out in one of the rented boats. Robert Joyner, the artist who is teaching this workshop, shows us to have a fairly even balance between abstract and actual to keep the painting interesting. I can't compare my results against his paintings but if I continue to practice at some point mine will get better. Until then, I'm having fun learning something new.
Robert Joyner
Robert Joyner
Thursday, March 14, 2013
New Medium
Acrylics and a very loose form!
Both are with acrylic paints, acrylic inks, water color crayons, compresses charcoal on a 16x20" 500 series Strathmore mix media board.
Both are with acrylic paints, acrylic inks, water color crayons, compresses charcoal on a 16x20" 500 series Strathmore mix media board.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
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