Showing posts with label 21 Secrets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 21 Secrets. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Summer Is Here!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Happy Summer everyone!

Apparently I'm celebrating by cranking up the heat! Woo! (First, in my spin class and second, in my HOT HOT studio where I put the finishing touches on this new painting.)


 

Here's a few detail shots of the 3ft X 3ft canvas.


I used my favorite "excavation" technique to paint this one - fitting, don't you think for a painting of ancient Egyptians?

   

I should explain a bit about "excavating". . .

See I don't create these images.....I find them there after painting in a messy background. Really I do! There is NO WAY I'd come up with this wacky composition....just couldn't do it.


 


What's really really crazy is that within the past month, I've gone to see both the Cleopatra exhibit in Los Angeles and the King Tut exhibit in Seattle.


 

So maybe....just maybe, my subconscious is carrying those images...I dunno. Is that woo woo? Maybe, but it's fun.


(BTW - I did add in the pyramids and the hieroglyphics. Those are the only images that I "designed".)

 


I call this painting "Lineage" and while I "excavated" images on a canvas here, I teach YOU how to do it in your art journals in 21 Secrets: An Online Art Journal Playground.

21 Secrets is open until the end of the year, so there's still time to play. You get access to my class, AND 20 other workshops for only $59. Really great deal, huh?

Go here for more details.

So how will you spend your summer?
Is the heat already cranked up where you're at?
Do you have a pool?
Do you need a pool buddy? (Hint hint.)

Side Note:  WOWSER!  I JUST figured out how to make my sentences and pics look right here again on Blogger - they made some changes to the program recently and I was stumped!  Woo hoo!!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

"She is Still There"

Tuesday, May 8, 2012
I painted this 28x36" canvas today.
It practically painted itself! (I love it when that happens - and believe me it doesn't always!) I love it more than any other painting I've ever painted, but I always say that. (I'm so fickle!) See the face within the figure? It is from the painting underneath that I painted over. Funny about that old painting, I hadn't yet signed it, wired it or dated/titled it on the back like I always do. So I guess it wasn't finished yet . . . but She is still there (hence the title of the piece).
The rest of the recognizable shapes were "excavated" using the process I teach in my online art journaling workshop on 21 Secrets. You can find more info about the class here. Come join us - it's open through the end of the year!!