Paint Party Friday

Trying to get a short post in here. One of my cats laid on the keyboard today and now it doesn't want to work right at all :( So this is getting a bit frustrating. Guess I'll be shopping for a new one tomorrow. 

This weeks art is anther one from the 

Mindy Lacefield class

"Let the Paint Speak:language of the Soul"

Once again lots of layers and marks getting to the finished piece. 

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PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

SLIDING IN HERE A BIT LATE ... 

and the sliding is a real thing around here today. We are in an ice storm that has crippled  a great portion of the Midwest and it's only the first day of a 3 day storm. 

It's scary out there!

I was in the process of getting ready to go to work and just decided it wasn't worth it... good call because 45 min. later we were covered with a thin layer of ice. Thin is all it takes! 

So I've finished with the last of the storm preparations.... made a big pot of beef stew and a pan of quick bread. Now I can set back and do fun things while we wait out the storm and just pray that the power stays on. 

This weeks art is another painting inspired by the Mindy Lacefield  class I'm taking. 

This time I started with an old canvas 

from way back when.... 

... and started slapping layers of paint and marks on it. 

Forgot to take photos of that stage :-( 

Then drew in  the figures I wanted to do. ...

... more background paint and started on the figures...

.... then decided to go a different route with her hair...

.... not liking it all that much....

.... back to more hair again.... but not liking the drippy background...

....liking it more.... adding some details ...

...and still more...

.... and now I'm calling her done.  I think... I'll put her on the wall in the studio and see what happens with her. I'm still battling with staying loose. But it more loose than my normal so it's an improvement. :-) 

 Some random Thoughts for today....

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Paint Party Friday

Happy Belated New Year to you all out there. I decided to take the month of December off  with art and posting about it. I just had so much going on with the holidays and fighting off a sinus condition that somethings just had to be put on hold. 

So now that the holidays have come and gone and my health is back under control for the time being anyhow. I have started working on art again. 

My husband bought me an online class with 

Mindy Lacefield. 

"Letting the Paint Speak "

So I have started working on that this week. 

It's out of my comfort zone but I am loving it  and letting loss a bit more than normal for me. 

First day was just throwing paint on the paper and letting it move. 

Then blending it out with a calming color...

....Next was adding a few of the details ...

...and then building on them..

...more details and more background colors and marks....

So this is where it's at tonight... will be working on the faces more next and blending in some calm spaces too. Who knows where they will end up but I'm totally enjoying the effort. 

Some Random Thoughts for Today..

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Paint Party Friday

It's been awhile again :/ 

No particular reason other than playing with the puppy. It's kind of like having a baby and all of your time goes into caring for it and training it . 

How can you not just want to spend all day long loving on this little sweetie :) 

There has been a wee bit of art done. I made a couple of cards with Mandala's on them. 

The first one I did right before election day. A form of meditation in a way. A pulling together of thoughts and prayers toward a positive outcome in a no win situation. 

The second one was done after the election when the world was shocked by the outcome. 

A prayer for guidance and unity . A gather of forces to stand again what may happen and striving towards a peaceful outcome. 

I've started a third one...it's still in the drawing and deciding stage .

A resurrection of a symbol of my youth to remind myself that this battle has been fought before and can be done again and again until we get it right. 

That we can fix the things that are wrong without destroying the things that are right.

Then on a brighter side the lesson learned today is that I NEED a compass! 

drawing circles with out one is not easy. 

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A new day is dawning.

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PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

Hello again!

I'm still having difficulty getting back into the swing creating art here. :(  I come in to so something...anything and end up on the computer surfing the net just looking at nothing in particular. 

I pulled out an old sketch this week that I was never happy with and tried to improve it and then do some watercolors on it. I'm still calling it a 

WIP 

as I'm not pleased with how it looks at all. 

INCOMPLETE 

is what it says to me. 

Perhaps I'll try doing some gel pen doodles on it tonight while watching TV.

So after a frustrating art adventure I grabbed the garden tool belt and heading outside to plant a few more bulbs. 

Two bags of each kind went into the circle drive flowerbed. So here's hoping that the critters leave them alone and the Spring will be full of beautiful blooms . 

That's what's going on in my world this week...how's it going in yours?

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Paint Party Friday

Well it seems I've been missing in action much longer than I realized.

Just an extremely busy time for me in the gardens and training the puppy :)

 

She still spends most of her days playing with her big brother though :)

No art was done the entire time I was away from here ...just didn't even think about it during that time.

Now that cooler weather is here and most of the outside chores are done the art supplies are back out again.

Here's what I worked on yesterday.

I started with a old pencil sketch I had done for 29 Faces a year or 2 ago. This is where she is today and haven't decided if she is finished or not.

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