I always wonder if I have cleaned my oil color brushes enough. So far I’ve been ok, but knowing how to prevent the loss of a good brush is important to me!
This short video is done by Darrell Crow from YouTube. I never tried cleaning my oil brushes in baby oil, I use Murphy’s Oil Soap.
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This week I have been in my studio creating different pieces of art. My artwork runs from abstract to greeting cards, and just about everything in between. The fact is, as usual I haven’t any idea where this painting will take me, and if I did know I probably wouldn’t say so because I rarely have a painting that goes in the direction I thought it would. I just keep working on it & if I’m finished I guess I’ll know. This painting is as usual, an experiment! It is way too dark, and surely will undergo many changes before I’m finished.
Todays you will be watching a video on color, and how we actually perceive it. I thought it was interesting, it’s short, and sometimes something like this triggers a thought, or an idea we didn’t expect. I hope you will enjoy it, and maybe it can inspire you to think, or create differently.
When I am out of ideas or even just tired, and in need of some rest and relaxation I often turn to YouTube for inspiration. Sometimes I go to YouTube for problem solving. After all where else can you go for just about any information possible?
Today you will be watching an Abstract Art Demo by Karen Hale. It impressed me when I saw how she used her colors, shapes, rulers, pie-tins, and more. When I started out in Water Color I loved the look of w/c, but what I didn’t like was how structured, and perfect each thing each thing I did, had to be done just right or your painting didn’t come out right. That is why I changed to acrylics, and oils. W/C just didn’t dry fast enough, and it made me anxious, and uncomfortable. Today I still use w/c when I travel, and journal, but they are small & dry more quickly.
Here is what I thought…
It would be fun to watch different YouTube videos on art. Maybe abstract, mixed media, or collage. Maybe something specific you want to see, how about you comment and let me know, and I’ll try to find what you are looking for and post it. It could be fun, maybe we could all learn something new, and we can share ideas.
I’m asking any, and all of you out there in blogging land to give me ideas on what you would like to learn or see, and I’ll blog it. Get your thinking caps on, and let’s go for it!
This is a chance to get to know each other better, and share the things we love the most!
I ran into this video, and couldn’t help but use it for a Daily Post!
It has always been a dream of mine to paint like a three-year old, you know…Paint with Wild Abandon! That is exactly what Aelite Andre is doing. She must have an artist for a parent, and she must have been watching each time they painted. Aelite has way too many toys to paint with, and is having way too much fun doing it. Her parents are very special people!
What is the lesson here?
Could all this creating she is doing be giving her self-confidence. Certainly it’s giving her the love of creating. She loves to get her hands into the paint, just like many of us. Maybe this love goes way back to when we were children…
Finger painting is one of the most fun things I can think of to do while painting. I’m usually covered in pint when I get finished for the day. Somewhere, somehow it isn’t a painting if there isn’t paint all over the place.
How about you? Is finger painting part of the way you paint also? Do you see a little of yourself in Alita, or are you neet and clean when you are finished for the day? What does this say of out personalities?
Part of my studio, the organized part!
Is there anything you just can’t live without……..Concerning your craft. It may be writing, or music, or painting, or cooking. Each of us has something that they are passionate about. For me, it’s my art! And the very thing I love is the very thing that gives me grief. Do I need to come outside the box more? Probably!
What I can’t live without….. is my art!
Within the thing I love, I have a few things I can’t live without. An artist might say it’s gesso, or a particular color. A musician might say, it’s their chosen instrument, or a particular piece of music. They might even say it’s their creativity that makes them stand out in a crowd. It really is our own individual creativity that makes us stand out!
I think we could all say, when their muse takes a vacation, they are on vacation also.
What would you say is the one or two things they can’t live without? Your piano, your journals, that luscious shade on Indian yellow, or even Marigold? Marigold is one of my favorites, along with Quinacridone Purple. Gorgeous!
And still I struggle….
Isn’t this color gorgeous?
Recently I’ve noticed that I’m all backed up……creatively speaking that is. I go through this a lot, and I don’t like it, not one little bit! Maybe I need to go to some galleries, or take a walk on the beach. We all need energy, and creativity flowing in and out all the time. I’ve been lazy this summer. The heat and humidity really took its toll, and I have air conditioning. Not a good excuse for the Goldie Locks Girl that I am. Maybe I should say I have had things on my plate, and it wasn’t paint!What is it, and how obsessed are you?
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So. Carlsbad Beach in So California
Over the weekend I had a lot of time to reflect on life, art, & family. It dawned on me that since I’ve had my blog… I’ve been extremely fortunate. Not just to have had inspiration enough to continue, because it is more difficult sometimes than other times. But to have all the people let me know how they feel about the continent of what I write by following me.
I am so grateful for each and every one of you that have signed up to follow me, or followed my on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter accounts.
Each & every one of you!
My followers are growing! This to me is the inspiration I need to continue in spite of writers block, or even artists block.
Ponto Beach So of Carlsbad.
My intent is to be able to be a better writer, a better story-teller while all the time still having time and energy to paint, and incorporate my art into this blog as well. That is a big order, and admittedly I don’t always have time or energy to do both, but I have wanted to do both and it’s been working so far.
Excuses be gone! (I think Dr. Wayne Dyer is the one who said it first, I’m just stealing it from him.)
All in all what I’m trying to say is this; My readers are the life of Stone Soup, and with much Gratitude I say,
Thank You all!
Santa Fe cosmos is a picture I took last September 2014.
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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