Sunflower Finished!

I do see a few areas I need to cover but finished for the most part!

Sunflower Update

Just a little update on the sunflower collage. I seem to be "stuck" at the moment so I'm stopping here til tomorrow. Also spent some time working on the workshop pears!

Art Workshop

Last week I was fortunate enough to attend my first Linda Lucas Hardy workshop! I have known Linda for a long time but have never managed to be at the right place at the right time. It was absolutely wonderful and so is Linda! I had an opportunity to meet lots of artists in my area and had a great time. I'm still working on the project as we didn't get them completed.

Here are a couple of photos from the workshop:)

Catching Up

I just have not felt very creative lately, moving from one project to another, but completing absolutely nothing! Which is very bad because spring shows are coming up very soon! PLEASE let the sun come out because I know that will help!

Did a little work on the Music Man but seems like all I did was make a mess of it. I'll just have to keep plugging because for right now, I'm NOT starting over! This is most of the image, it is larger than my scanner bed.

Another Mixed Media

I jumped into something else again--meaning to experiment on an old piece I started in the summer. I had painted the bird of paradise in acrylic on this piece of canva paper and tossed it in the bin. I loved the bright colors but I didn't do the background first so I didn't know what to do with it.

On the second go around, I painted a background by first putting some webbing on the paper and wetting it; then I painted with Jenkins green. I let it dry overnight and then removed the webbing. That took away all that white that was keeping me from being able to start. Then, using painted rice papers, I collaged on the lower part of the flower. Tomorrow, I'll figure out what comes next!

New Collage Underpainting or...

Started this new collage underpainting today but got side tracked along the way. My background looks a little yucky so I decided to try using something besides paint (I am NOT a painter). This is the first time I have tried colored pencil on this wood surface. I liked how the pencil went on but not necessarily what I was looking for. Then I remember that I had a box of inktense pencils that I've never used. Wow, I had a great time "painting" this with the inktense. I may keep playing with it a little BUT them would I want to collage. Stay tuned to find out!!!!

Graphite Drawing Workshop

The first week of January I took a graphite drawing workshop. The workshop was a good distance from home and I didn't get to attend the last two days. But I learned a lot of what I had been doing wrong in my drawing and some new things that will help me do better. So, after finishing up the flower collages and wanting a few days break from having sticky fingers, I started on this drawing of my nephew Collin. What you see is only half of the drawing due to the fact that it's 8x24 and won't fit on the scanner bed.

The paper is Stonehenge. I use this paper for colored pencil all the time so I was disappointed that I've already managed to "damage" the surface of the paper in a couple of places. I'm also using Derwent drawing pencils for the first time, and who would have thought that a different brand of pencil could be so different! But I will continue working, hoping for improvement.