paint party Friday Moving into Mandalas....

It's been a full week of paintings...
I took another lesson from sketchbook revival as a freebie from her first year. The teacher was Shelley Klammer and she did some interesting activities. I tried to take a class from Blueprint. I made it thru the first 10 min and got bored but it stimulated me to do an experiment. I continued my quest of Mandalas in both painting and quilt making.

the quilt in the bottom right corner will be shown Saturday's post

I met with my art quilt group on zoom, and gathered some of my work from the last month to show them. I never thought about it that way, and it's good to see what I've done creatively. All that, two finished art quilts, and a kindle cover

So lets just start the show...

because of the blueprint class I decided to do a comparison of my three paint sets... Yarka, Kuretake, and Koi. I dabbed paint, and compared the intensity (kuretake won for that) then allowed the two colors to run together on all three sets (again Kuretake won) then tried 4 colors of each set to see how they would blend. My fave to use, KOI didn't blend as well, or look as intense, but it has so many colors and is so cute to use, I'll keep using it. The cheap yarka did okay with intensity but the kuretake was intense and blended great! However, not many colors and not my faves.

the first thing Shelley K. had us try was mandalas! Surprise! I've been focusing on them for a week now

I just put down colors in each circle, and was happy to see how it looked

Next she had us scribble, then turn the sketchbook around til we saw something there, then add a few lines. That was fun! I asked DH to do it and he couldn't see anything in his but I saw a bird

Oh this is going to be a good thing to do when you don't know what to do!!!
I did it again and saw a poodle... surprise!

from a random scribble! I love it!

Me Too!

she had two more activities for us, the heart at the beginning was to paint, then put a torn out word on it. I don't know if I feel lucky or want to feel lucky. The other one was to draw with your non dominant hand a child, and then answer questions as a child would... kind of personal.

One morning I painted a circle and drew symbols on it to create repetition for a mandala. I kind of like it, but I did another one on the back that is hideous! Can't win 'em all!
Yesterday's mandala however is highly interesting to me...

I took close ups of it and now have some ideas for a series, to move from paper to fabric, and back again. Working in series is hope for the future, right? Anyway it's good to be excited about my work, moving toward mandalas and learning.
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