Art Unraveled - Part 2

Yesterday I took a very good class with Barbara Roth called, “Creating Whimsical Watercolor Compositions”. It was a relaxing environment, with just five students and the instructor in a nice intimate classroom. In the morning we did a directed exercise. We went through all the steps together and started off with the same basic drawing [...]

Art Unraveled Day 1

Yesterday was my first class at Art Unraveled. I’m only taking a few classes so I can recuperate between classes and I don’t end up completely exhausted. Yesterday’s class was Two Art Quilts Two with Jane LaFazio. Angie, Joanne and I all took it together, which was a nice surprise! It was a great way [...]

Recovery and Drawing

Today I’m in recovery mode, but I was determined to do some art. I was not able to do any yesterday, since we used my dominant hand yesterday for my IV infusion. The infusion went well once we finally got a vein that would take the IV. That took about six tries. Clearly, I was [...]

Two more watercolor pencil drawings

The assignment today was to use dark paper and opaque watercolor pencils or crayons to depict a sunrise or sunset scene. I have many sunset scenes to depict, as we have spent quite a bit of time in Hawaii in the past year. And there is nothing I love more than watching the sun set [...]

More watercolor pencil work

I’ve continued to work on my watercolor pencil class. We’re in week 3, and we’re actually making this a two-week exercise. I’m glad for that, because we’re all finding this part a struggle. To the right is my first attempt after I received some feedback from the instructor. I like the movement in the water, [...]

Week 2 Farmhouse Painting

As I mentioned last week, I plan to use a photo I did of a farmhouse/shack in Sedona as a learning piece each week. After I go through the exercises in the class, I’m going to see how my work has changed by going back to this reference photo I took. I’ve done that for [...]

Lucky Lady and Some Art

I’m so blown away by the One World One Heart project. We had over 200 blogs participating. I signed up for several of the drawings, getting to know some other bloggers. I’ve been honored to win several goodies. I will post them here when I get them, but I wanted to publicly thank the bloggers [...]

200th Post and Pay It Forward

It’s my 200th post. I can’t believe it!
As many of you have already commented, I know you’re aware that tomorrow I’ll choose the winner of the One World One Heart blog event here on my blog. If you haven’t already joined in the fun, please do! All you have to do is to sign up [...]

More drawing and watercolor pencils

I have spent a few hours each day this week doing at least a little bit of work with my watercolor pencils. I’m enjoying the class with Kate. She’s a very giving teacher and even across the miles, I feel supported and that I am learning. We’re four days into the class and my classmates [...]

Watercolor Pencil Day

Today I started working on the first drawing with my watercolor pencils. I’ve never attempted to draw from some of my hundreds of photos from our travels, but I figured this was a great time to do that. I took a photo of an ostrich about 3 years ago at the San Diego Zoo. Until [...]