The Creating Collage and Creating Text in Your Art workshops are over and we all had a lot of fun, while learning, experimenting and creating!

Busy Creating Collage

Demonstration

Work in progress. Beautiful, Wendy!

Creating Text in Your Art - we made samplers!

There are lots of ways to get text in your art! Great sampler, Sandy!

Véronique's broad smile says it all. Looking forward to the next workshop!

"Creating Text in Your Art" workshop happens here in the studio tomorrow!


We are going to have SO much fun! Oh, yeah.

On the third Wednesday of every month, David Hayes over at Clearer Reflections will be hosting "Dave's Recipe Book Project" - an online collaboration. This is the second in the series.

The pic can be of any subject and any app(s) can be used… the only stipulation is that the image must be done all "in-phone" (or iPad). Along with the image, a specific step-by-step "recipe" is to be included.

Dave will post a list of all participating iphoneographers on his blog today so that you can be sure to find the links to all the "recipes". Check it out and join in if you like!

Here is my "recipe"...

Photo of bed clothes taken with OldCamera with flash. Setting>Filter>Mode>Cyanotype

Pic Grunger - Effect: Sponged  Border: ON

snapseed - Drama2. Tune Image: saturation 85

Photo Studio - Symmetry Quad

Once again a deadline has helped me to finish a new painting. It was submitted for jurying for the Ottawa Mixed Media Artists' exhibition at Brush Strokes Gallery in Carleton Place, Ontario. It got in. Yay!

So here is a first online look at my newest work. It is quite different from my other paintings and I am excited about where my muse is taking me.

Something Rich & Strange I - 36" x 24", mixed media on birch panel $2000. CAD

I would describe the process for this piece as very intuitive. It grew organically as I discovered shapes and developed them, working from right to left. I will reveal the transformation in a future post… the finished piece is unrecognizable from the first layers of paint. But they are underneath, adding their mysterious depth and richness.

Check out Seth Apter's MASTER CLASS post over at his blog, The Altered Page. This is most recent Master Class post - if you look in the sidebar you will find many more posts for this topic, among others.

Today, you will find my answer to the question posed:
'If you could take a class from one artist from anytime in history, including the present, who would it be and why?

As you will see, Dave McKean was the artist I chose. Discover his darkly mysterious world at your leisure. 




And there are lots of other artist's responses to read. Seth has added links and pictures of his choosing to illustrate these. I think you will really enjoy reading the comments too... it's worth taking the extra time.

Happy exploring!