Flowers for a Chair

Yesterday… while I was looking at the OLDEST sketches in my (MOCA) sketchbook… I finished an old doodle of an antique chair that only had a seat and an arm… the colors don’t exactly match but that could show that the sun was hitting the upper portion making the colors a bit lighter… LOL… works for me! Sooooo… working on that, I thought FILL THE BLANK PAGE OPPOSITE THE CHAIR… Hmmm… where did the chair’s flower pattern inspiration come from? PERFECT… a pot of pink flowers on a nearby table… and PERFECT for a 20 minute art challenge…

20 minutes does not allow for erasing or clean-up on oops… but I got the flowers painted that mimic the chair pattern…

Anddddd…. Now! they sit side by side in my sketchbook for all eternity… FAB!

Day 6 of 20 completed!

I’m thinking… I should do the same on other blank pages in my sketchbook

FUN Thumbnail sketches

Sooooo… being me as I am… I changed my mind and decided to continue with the 20 minute challenge and I was skimming through my sketchbook and thought OH GOOD IDEA… tiny sketches could be fast with colored pencils and ink…

WHAT was it I saw in my sketchbook? WHAT gave my the GOOD IDEA… these other little sketches…

FUN mini works of art… ideas for future paintings… and I already have an idea for my 20 minute painting for tomorrow… made it through 5 days… 15 to go! I CAN do it!

Art History Class Revisited

Years ago… in one of my art history classes we had to select a Greek God or Goddess to research and in our presentation we had to recreate Greek pottery… I wish I had been more versed in Fine Arts back then (I was a Graphic Art/Art History student)… this Greek pottery I recreated today—I assure you— is a million times more pleasing to the eye…

Another art challenge and this was the photo prompt… 

GOOD memories of my Art School days

Coffee for Two Challenges

Another 20 minute challenge and I used a mug art challenge prompt that I thought I could paint within 20 minutes… this is the finished painting…

Andddd this is how far I got within 20 minutes…

I’m not sure I like the 20 minute challenge… or maybe I need to select extremely simple subjects… but that’s really not my thing… soooooo I think this is my last attempt to be part of that challenge… going back to taking my time.

Sketchbook: BOLD color!

More sketchbook entries… lots of colored pencil used to show BOLD VIBRANT color with soothing color washes… WOW to subtle… Two before and after… simple sketch to full color…

NOW… on to another sketchbook challenge: complete a work of art within 20 minutes… will post that a little later… see you then!

Sketchbook Sunday

Today I worked on improving or finishing scribbles in my sketchbook…

The next three sketchbook paintings show the before and after… from simple to bursting with color… I forgot to photograph the above sketchbook befores… I wish I had… fun to see the difference…

I did two more but the night lighting for photographing doesn’t show colors well… sooooo I will share tomorrow… I’m happy with the results… NEXT, on to new sketchbook entries now that my scribbles are complete.

Sketchbook and Challenges

I’ve been very busy playing in my sketchbook (from the MOCA) lately…

This was a challenge…

Here is the photo prompt…

This is a REVISIT… REDO… LOVE the NEW but SAME coffee cup in the garden…

This is the original… I was challenging myself to a limited palette for Coffee Cup in Garden and I believe it was a BIG FAIL…

This art success and oops was part of an old challenge and here is the photo…

Besides challenging myself, this was the start of a 20 minute for 20 days challenge… it said challenge yourself… it said paint anything and then I saw that a lot of people were painting the same pot with a single flower… so I did that too with my limited palette. I think the pot was better with the colors than the coffee cup adventure…

Moving forward… I will not limit my palette… it was frustrating and not a happy experiment.

Big Coffee CupBowl of Flowers

PENCIL was my main media for this painting… is it really a painting if it’s done in pencil to mimic paint? Is it called a pencilling? I did use some dabs or strokes of watercolor paint for the table and wall so technically there is some paint… so I guess it is a painting… LOL… save to say it is artwork…

Here is the prompt …

FUN FUN FUN to try different techniques with mixed media… and RARE for me: there is NO INK… I used a regular drafting pencil to outline… what will I try next???

Hello September

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Here is the paint process…

The inspiration…

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