creatively speaking this week.... watching paint dry, and progress on sewing projects

 

My focus on art this week (shared with doctor visits) was split between fabric and watching paint dry, along with some planning of my embroidery project. 

The color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is green not blue but I'm catching up on scrap colors so I did another hexie spiral in blues...

Green showed up in a small portrait painted in my scrap paper art journal though

using leftover gouache paint

yogurt lid palette holds the paint for days. Look at the lovely mixing of color on the lighter blue/purple bit. You see that on the portrait too. Painting in an unnatural color allows you to just see shadows. 

green tones cut at 2.5" ready to do this month's color in the hexie spiral. How will these hexie blocks come together in all the colors? I'll think about that later when each color is done

I want to embroider a wisteria vine around my pastel bowl (EPP pentagon bowl) shown last week, so I got out my reference books to figure out how I want it to look

and realized I don't really have much purple floss/perle cotton. Or purple seed beads to use on flowers

that led to a bit of online shopping but no order made yet

back to painting... I knew a mixed media workshop was starting this week, so I got into the mood days before with this

a collage of magazine pages, some cast off paintings of mine cut out, some printed words, a mouse drawing, the back of a printed napkin.... and glued them into one of my junk art journals. 

That led to  painting over it with gouache paint and some inks

which was the start to that color palette on yogur lid in the image 

The embossed metallic stick came from a box my lancome lotions/potions came in at Christmas. Cut out in thin strips, I liked the shiny 3-d of it on this collage. 

in making the stars I cut away tiny triangles of blue/teal I couldn't throw away seeing them pile up

which led to piling them on scrap of batting into a blossom shape

which led to free motion quilting it with golden metallic threads

then cutting away excess batting, and thinking of a tulip with added leaves and stem

or a lake

sure but... so I took the photo for this post, and in looking at the photo I saw a face emerge

see it? subtle shading created lips, a wide-ish nose, eye sockets, a chin and cheek shape. I printed two  paper copies  of this to draw on later, and see if an abstract can become a portrait. 

(clapping hands in glee for future project and learning !!!)

I returned to the idea of green scraps to try a pattern too

scraps pretty but too small to use for this pattern

each block is formed from two 2.5" strips cut across width of fabric. Sew, cut, sew, cut, sew

and these were done. Dull as the only WOF strips large enough were dull colored. But... in ALL the colors, it might end up looking very cool right? 

By now the mixed media workshop began, and I want to do all the lessons. My doctors appts and back nerve pain got in the way of sitting at the table to paint all but one... an abstract 

done with watercolor paint, pencil lines at random, pen/ink lines , dragging the brush stem to etch lines (in that purple rectangle) taught by Laura Horn. See how mixes of color blend, how lines influence it, with no end in mind. Just getting lost in color. 

DH came out of his office and said 

"I see a house at top right, see the roof?" 

The workshop is offered by Tamara LaPorte and goes on two weeks online, and is free. 

My hope is to an abstract bunny today, wish me luck

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