This might be of interest…
This is what one would call cells. They have a kind of interesting shapes, colors, and movement to them. I never know if this will be something I’ll ever use, but should I ever think I need something different, maybe this will be just exactly the ticket!
I’ve only seen one demo by Chris Cozen, but when I did my inner child had a very good time. Chris is a mixed media artist living in Southern California. She is fun to watch, and will get you thinking you need “more paints,” “more supplies!”
I kid you not, your inner child will squeal with joy!
Exactly!
I am over the purse thing. After helping some of the girls with purses, figuring out my own design, and all the chaos that goes with a room full of purse painters…….I’m over it!
I painted two purses….one to small for me to use, a little leather travel bag I purchased on Cedros St. years ago to travel with. Turns out, it’s so small it won’t hold my sunglasses, or much of my wallet. So of course, I had to paint it.
Paint on leather
The other a canvas travel bag that should eliminate my wallet, but hold my sunglasses. The thing is, I got over it before I finished, and that is not good! When that happens, I start making mistakes, and mistakes I made. Dripping paint where is shouldn’t have been. Smearing from the side of my hand, things like that. So I did exactly the same thing I’d do in a painting. There are no mistakes, only opportunities to be creative! Well, I don’t know about that. In this case I’m not so sure that worked. Line work was used to pull it together and poka-dots were used to cover other opportunities.
“I should have stopped here!”
All in all…..
I meant to do that!
Craggy Crow
Last week the weather was so nasty I stayed inside and made the most of being cooped up by painting, experimenting, and just plain having fun in my studio. The rain was coming down so hard the yard and the patio were flooded, and you couldn’t see in front of your nose if you went out.
Opportunity!
Being stuck in one place gives us opportunity. To curl up and read, bake cookies, watch a movie, or Paint are just some of the possibilitiess So paint I did.
I played with colors, sketched out possibilities, played with different papers, and much more. In my mind, I try to play like a 3-year-old. Just like my grandson use to do when he’d play in my studio. I think letting him play in my studio was the beginning of me letting go, and not taking myself so seriously. I’d give him a huge pad of paper, and he picked his own brush, and watercolors. (After all I could wipe them up when he was finished.) He’d pick the longest brush he could find and make a huge puddle of blue watercolor, he loved blue. After he went home, I’d find blue paint all over my studio, the kitchen, and into the garage. How can you ever get mad at one of your grandchildren? He loved blue, and he loved the way it looked on everything. He is now twelve going on thirteen, he still loves blue, but fortunately doesn’t find the need to splatter it all over the house. He’s a great kid, and is very creative.
The crow, well crows speaks to me. I love them, and can’t find enough places to put them in my art. This time I just thought I’d make a big crow, wet him all down like a watercolor, and drip blue ink into him. This is how you get craggy! Of course, once he’s big as life on a sheet of paper, he needs something to complement him. Journal style seemed to work for me on a cold, wet, rainy day. This is my version on playing in my studio this winter.
I actually got a couple of things out of this little video. You know how things get forgotten over time? Well, This was just a little reminder about a few hacks I’d totally set aside and forgotten.
Robin Clonts is a cute young painter with ideas, take a look. Maybe you can get something out of this video too!
Abstract
This is what happens when you play with wild abandon. As I start working the crazy just started rolling out of me! It rolled, and rolled until this is the result. Lots of black and red, and foil.
My studio has been humming with lots of experimenting lately, and who knows what will hatch next? All things that I see, hear, smell and touch are subject to an abstract interpretation.
What is rolling out of your studio? Do you see crazy there like I do, or is it more sane? Email me and let me know, and while your emailing me, send a picture of what you are doing. I’d love to see it, and maybe post it as well if you don’t mind.
The way we grow is to experiment, so lets all grow, or maybe it sounds better to lets all experiment…….
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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