creatively speaking, an owl, a flower, a moon, and some stitching

 

for this week's creativity round up I'll start with the spiral hexie blocks

are you tired of seeing the progression of these yet LOL? Each color is a project on it's own. 36 hexies in one colorway, light to dark, hand basted and sewn. I have no idea how I'll fit all the colors together 

I focused on mixed media with all it's layers and supplies and variety this week. I also took time each day to sew as I need the fabric time, seeing colors joined with threads. 

Note I just cleaned my reading glasses, held them up and found they are really scratched. Hooray! it's the glasses at fault!

back to art, this week fabric first, paper art to follow that

I am catching up on the RSC colors from the last few months, red is the last one to do on this

I like the large format of these blocks (12.5" each) from two 2.5" strips from scraps. ( pattern source given on last 3 Saturday posts)

I'm ramping up for Zen Stitch workshop starting on May 27th or so by Kate Ward

Paper arts

I've done a lot more painting this week, some my morning pages, some from lessons in the Mixed media free online workshop... I love to talk about art, so I'll show a sampling of my projects, new to me techniques, and tell what I learned

Seeing the week condensed like this, in one post, reminds me I'm doing something, otherwise it gets lost in the daily stress and blah blah blah

I'll start with a blend of quilt and paint love

two doodles from morning drawings

makes me want to do more quiltmaking with solid fabrics instead of my usual prints

I do love color, and know it has a vibration we might not be aware of (but it's real) 

I wanted to try a technique of painting onto tissue paper (here the tissue was tan to start with)

and I mixed up a beautiful palette of orange by mixing four colors, plus a green. 

yes it's done in a yogurt lid

(note  I see heart shapes in odd places, and one showed up in the paint this week)  

continuing the learning curve of gouache paint (it's opaque but still watercolor) I started by taping a notepad paper flamingo to the page, stamping the ranger ink in corderoy color, over, adding some orange dragged off the flamingo "mask",  in my junk paper art journal.

color!!! glorious! remove the paper flamingo, I Like ...

> inked texture from the pad stamped on

> the orange mixed with white and a bit of golden yellow for the sand

> the dry brush effect for the palm trunk on the right

Now what to paint with the rest of that fab color? tulips

> childlike but also graphic

>various sizes

>vibrancy of the paint blending on the paper

and the way creamy gouache feels under the brush. This paper was just copier thin paper too

turn the page and see how the paper mask would be on another composition.... kind of like it! 

use more orange paint and 

GOSH! I love the flower explosion of color here! On just copier paper! Look at all those tones of orange too

Whee!  Cheap brushes, dab of paints mixed and wowza! 

sometimes I paint because I catch sight of the palette of gouache on my desktop... 
If you've got paint, use it   

I like doing these little painting experiments in the morning while having coffee, before the "critic" wakes up and tells me I'm wasting supplies and time. 

She needs to sleep in or get a job and leave me to it

cut off water color paper painted with left over paint on palette

collage magazine pages of words, ink pad from ranger, gouache paint in a loose mix on paper, black paint lines 

I Like...

> the visual texture. This would do well on fabric

> mix of black into the lovely mix of blue and green

>posca acrylic paint pen dots over the green chest

>addition of black leaves on the branch

a random video about baby owls made me snort with laughter at it's gesture

so I drew it

bwaaahaha! I love this but, of course can't leave well enough alone. I wanted to see what painting on tissue looked like. I had some tan tissue, and dabbed on some gouache and it became a tree.

the color is very interesting isn't it? 

> I liked glueing the painted torn tissue on the journal overlapping pages

> I liked putting the dab of discarded painted paper over the owl to see how that might do

> I liked the tree filling in the facing page, and grounding the owl sketch

> I liked that I didn't glue the tissue to the owl yet so I can remove it after noting how it worked

this was from a workshop and she does rock cairns in series changing each one. 

I like

> the idea of making more of these

> the look of the washi tape pattern

> the lichen on a rock

> the mystical look of a mostly lavender sky and limited palette

>the rune on the top rock, in fact I printed out a page or runes to use next time

> the iridescent ink by FW inks around the moon

 

some videos that look good

well! easy flower embroidery 

 

this is a super easy short tute for painting leaves... love green? you'll love seeing the shades here

til next time, thank you so much for your comments and checking in with me!!! Love, LeeAnna

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