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May
14
Some New Project Ideas….
Filed Under Carrie Lewis | Leave a Comment
…as if I need more of those!
Several new images have found their way into the screen saver rotation so that they can be randomly considered for future paintings.
This can be both exhilarating and frustrating!
For example, last year, I painted 315 aceo landscapes. The challenge was to paint one a day for every studio day. There were 313 days that weren’t Sunday and I counted every single one of them as a studio day, even if I wasn’t home.
Many of those mini landscapes would like to be larger paintings, including the one shown here. Of the 315, there are probably a dozen that would make great larger landscapes.
I recently found a racing scene photographed up at Mt. Pleasant Meadows in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan probably ten years ago that would make a great painting. This particular image is one of those that catches my eye every time I look through the horse racing album, but until recently, it never really made an impact. Part of the reason for that could be that the muzzle of the primary horse was chopped off when the photo was printed.
What’s more, it would make a great BIG painting. As in 20×30 or larger. Whew! The idea is certainly thrilling, but it’s also intimidating.
It has great action and speed so I pulled it the last time around. I even looked up the negative and guess what? The whole horse is on the negative. The print and negative are set aside on the to-do pile, now.
I also have set aside two images from Keeneland Race Course workouts. Both of them have been painted before, but one was painted ten or more years ago and one was done five years ago. I’m wondering how my style has changed in that amount of time….
The group of horses I photographed grazing along Tawakoni Road northeast of Wichita also presented some good ideas, no the least of which is this one. Minus the barbed wire and the utility pipe in the foreground, add a long, narrow canvas format (12×24 or 15×30 or something of that nature) and I can see a neat, out of the ordinary composition.
So the ideas continue to abound. And multiply!
Ah! For the time to put them all to canvas!
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
May
14
What a great group of returning “repeat offenders” coming back for this week of art “camp” (AKA BOOT camp~!) that are here this week. Today is the day that it either starts to sink in, or at least they find one time of day that really works. We’re sliding toward the inevitable Friday, where we have to go our own ways, and hopefully have enough of the Color System to be able to paint with better color, every time! (At least that’s my hope.)
I do have a wonderful bit of image to share with you–one of last week’s Boot Campers stopped by to say “hi” and meet the repeat offenders this week, and she shared with us the work “before Color Boot Camp, and after”. The still life on the left is before. I’m so pleased to see such growth in a student’s work in such a short time! She really was ready for Color Boot Camp!!
Now, for my demonstration of moonlight for the boot camp attendees, I painted this 8 x 10 oil of round bales of hay in moonlight. You can see it below–it is an oil. I hope you’ll enjoy it! I have many more, including a lesson painting in acrylics for morning light on the Amicalola River from yesterday. Thanks for reading!
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©Copyright 2008 by Elin Pendleton. See original post here.
May
14
Drawing Day 08: the start of a worlwide drawing event.
Filed Under Sheona Hamilton-Grant | Leave a Comment
Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help us create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities. Official press release for Drawing Day08.
Curiosity and excitement have gotten the better of me and I am spreading the word. Ironically this means dropping my pencil for a tick to get this news to you…!
Cool news for all artists, scribblers, doodlers and/or pencil owners: the 7th of June 2008 is Drawing Day a brand new concept. The aim is to make a noise (in a modern silent way) for the sake of art worldwide.
What? A worldwide drawing event
How? by collecting a million drawings.
Why? So everyone worldwide can stop for one day and remember the joy of picking up a pencil and creating their first piece of art.
Where?Here is where (and some of the best ways) you can share your drawings with the world.
- Upload drawings to DeviantArt
- Upload drawings to Flickr
- Draw online at ratemydrawings
- Draw on Youtube
- Draw on Facebook
- Drawn on MySpace
If you want to learn more, check out the the Drawing Day website ample info is given and even more ways to participate will be provided by the organisers soon.
Who? Any proud pencil owner or anyone who knows where to lay their hands on one…
When? 7th of June 2008
Don’t forget…
This being the first year it will no doubt be a great event with a few teething problems. However, I feel it is well worth putting in a wee bit of effort into and giving it a go.
And finally but importantly…
Million thanks to Katherine Tyrell for bringing this up on her blog Making a Mark where she shares the info in a seriously well detailed and explained post. In doing so giving me the knowledge and the urge to spread the word. Here is the link her blog posting.
©Copyright 2008 by Sheona Hamilton Grant. See original post here.
May
14
Sign of the Cat
Filed Under Bethany Caskey | Leave a Comment
I put the tables up and struggled with a 3 foot by 10 foot sheet of plastic that would bend and droop at the worst times. I cleaned the old residue from the surface, gave the entire thing a cleaning and prepped the paint. This was to have a yellow background with red, black and green lettering. I decided to not do the painting in the garage like usual, and do it in the big room where the dust was more under control while the paint dried. The garage is still not rearranged from a long winter of repairs and tracked in mud, so it seemed the best to work in the cleaner area. As I finished the last smoothing roll of the base coat, I thought to myself “I need to close the door between so the cat does not get in here.” I bagged my roller for use for the second side and closed up the paint can and the phone rang. Needless to say, as I talked, I did several other small chores and cleaned up from the painting. I ran some photocopies Jim needed and burned another DVD of photos of the Parelli clinic for a participant. The phone rang again. And again. By now I had decided to ride the bike to the motor bank and to get the mail and as I passed the sign to take the bike out, this is what I found. I was right. That door should be closed to keep the cat out. She has one yellowish paw and no other “signs” of her curiosity except the evidence left at the scene of the crime. She is asleep in her chair now, in a failed attempt at innocence.
©Copyright 2008 by Bethany Caskey. See original post here.
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