Since I'm a huge (not literally of course) reuse & recycle fan, I'd grab all the political signs (especially the other side), & and I'd put them all over my art table. Gesso would be calling me when it noticed flat surfaces, & I'd wouldn't have any choice but to cover them all with a […]
Weeks ago I signed up for a short four-hour workshop with Cathy Carey. Cathy is a working artist, with her paintings in many galleries! She is known for the way her paintings sing with color and movement. Many years ago she offered a one day workshop to “Paint Like Monet!” I jumped all over that, and was amazed at the results. This is when I was still painting in watercolor, and hadn’t dabbled in acrylics,or learn what they could do! So when I overheard her tell someone else that she was giving a half day workshop, I hopped right on it!
I have admired Cathy for her use of color, and how she marries opposites together for many years, and now I have the opportunity to learn more from her!
This weekend was the class I signed up for, and I was excited to be there!
What transpired was a fun morning with each artist having their own spin on the same subject. What I learned were things I already knew, but never put together in this way! I don’t profess to be anywhere in the same category as Cathy Carey, but you have to start somewhere, right? Especially since I’m all over the place with my art! This class, and what Cathy was teaching certainly spoke to me – Big Time! The pictures of my art reflect the process. I’m sure you will agree how far I need to go, but the results were fun, and I’m planning to keep working on her technique! I love color!!!
I have to admit, since I’m in love with color, I really like the second to the last photo. The one with all the opposites, before the final color is applied. To me it’s a lot more exciting, and it sings, to me!I write because I have things to say, things to share, thoughts, ideas, & creative energy. Sometimes I'm extremely motivated just by sitting down in front of the computer. Ideas just pour out of me. Things I want to share, or tell about. Sometimes, like more recently, I'm lacking in creative energy, & find it […]
My big New Years Intention was, has been, & still is to clean up my studio! I have reorganized it several times, & each time I forget the "new" places I decided to put things. I have a very small studio that spills out into the garage, sometimes the kitchen, dinning room, even the office. […]
What Are Your Feelings On This?
This is the perfect time to start experimenting with our art! Certainly, if I don’t experiment, I won’t grow. I have a ten pound box of Cotton Linters sitting in my garage, still in its original box, and waiting for me to decide what to do with it. The Linters were shipped to me many years ago when I was in my paper making phase, and since then it has been given away (still in the original box), and found its way back home (still in the original box)! I can’t seem to get rid of them! But for the last year or so, it has been calling to me….
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Cotton Linters, they are the cotton fibers pressed into large sheets of rather soft paper. It is easily torn up, and run through the blender. The pieces get pulverized to the point of being put on a screen, filtering out the water, and dried flat – making handmade paper! (This is the simple version!)
10# of Cotton Linters just waiting for inspiration!
What on earth could it possibly be saying?
I only have vague ideas of what to do with it, but that ten pounds keeps just on the edge of my creative mind. There isn’t any way I still want to make paper, but I was thinking of preparing it the same way, and putting it into a mold of some kind to create a raised, molded image to place in a mixed media piece. I know this sounds vague, it does to me too. But like I said it seems to be circling the creative mind constantly! If it can be pulverized in a blender, why can’t it be pressed into something with a shape. Now I’m thinking if I put Elmer’s Glue with it, i could make some harder shapes.
OMG, just think of the possibilities!
This is how we come up with new ideas that haven’t been done before, this is how art is created! Trial and error!
Has anyone tried to do anything like this? I’d love to hear about it, or your thoughts, and ideas…
I’ll definitely get back to this subject at a later date, but for now, I’m letting it simmer, and marinate up there in the old cabasa!
Let me first say, my parents were both "Perfectionists!" So, i was a perfectionist too, & pretty much obsessed over just about everything. Now I consider myself a "Recovering Perfectionist!" But I still obsess over a couple things, & they rear their ugly heads when I lease expect them. I'm obsessed with how the towels […]
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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