Guess what, I have a student! She's a lady I met through Art Masterpiece, and she's taking watercolor lessons with me.
She wants to learn to paint in a looser style than she has been doing, so we looked through a watercolor book by Jan Kunz and picked one of her lessons to try.
We decided about half way through that the one we picked was a little ambitious, so we left it and went on to something less complicated.
I went ahead and finished mine, just for fun. I actually enjoyed just putting the paint on wet paper and seeing what would happen.
A good lesson for me too!
Spent Saturday teaching two pencil drawing classes for the Vision Kidz program at Vision Gallery in Chandler.
The kids did a great job, had some fun, and hopefully learned a little.
Anyone with school age kids can sign up through www.visiongallery.org. It's a great program, incorporating many different types of art classes, taught by local artists, for valley kids, and theres no charge to attend.
It's definitely worth your time to check it out.
As the work progresses it may become difficult to spot changes, since the main body has been so boldly defined.
I'm working on individual petals, and also going back to define or change petals with a second layer of color.
In the next I'm doing the same thing, plus defining the center.
Oh yeah, and I'm introducing another couple of accent colors as I go.
Comments?
Suggestions?
At this stage I'm working on my color palette. I tried black, mixed with my two whites for the shading and didn't like it, so I added some violet, and voila, there's my dark color.
Still working on my yellows for the center area. I'll need three different shades.
Laying in some of the dark areas, just to keep them in mind as I progress.
Already looking like my white poppy, with another smaller flower in it's shadow. I'll be doing a bit more today, and post tomorrow, then we'll see what the difference is.
A friend asked me to do a large painting for a charity auction she's involved with, and I welcomed the chance to do something for them.
So I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to show you the painting as it progresses. It's gonna end up being a large, open white poppy.
I got smart this time and painted the gallery edges first, so I wouldn't have to be cranky later that they weren't done yet.
Then I gridded it and laid in the flower. I grid when I want the proportions to be close to right on, then I don't have to do so much proportion correction later!
More next week....
My daughter wanted something special to place above the bar for her hubby's birthday party. And it needed to have a Mexican theme.
So we collaborated on this Day of the Dead acrylic painting, incorporating things that he loves. The eyes and saying are from a musical group that he likes.
Then there's the ASU pitchfork, cigars, cards and his favorite beer. Cartoons of my daughter and grandsons are on the face cards.
We thought it turned out pretty cool, and he liked it too!
