Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009

Merry Christmas - Happy Holiday





Merry Christmas
Happy Holiday
Happy Hanukkah
Happy everyday!

See you all next year! Here are some scenes of my pre-Christmas...

Down Time


O.K.. I know....here I go ...messing around again...but I will say...not HAVING to do anything (now that I'm caught up for the holidays) has given me a chance to take one of my old life drawing sketches and play around with it. I've never taken a collage class, but have always wanted to learn, so I started playing with my water color sticks...then added some acrylic, then I started playing with some torn paper..I needed to hold the paper up to see if I liked it or not...then....POOF!!! It hit me...Eureka...(I think) . The tape I was using a good friend had given me years ago...and it reads "Smart women hold it together"...so I thought..why not just leave the tape on there since it's a figure of a woman...and I'm thinking I'll do some light something with pencil in the background that relates to that theme...just to add a little interest.

I may wind up throwing it out...but...it's fun to be like a kid to "play" and not worry if it turns out or not!! And, maybe in the process I'll learn something!

I pick my daughter and granddaughter up in Chicago Wednesday...and I'm going through withdrawals not being by a young little person that still believes in magic. I'm an adult....and I still like the magic!!!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Lucian Freud Quotes

I want paint to work as flesh, I know my idea of portraiture came from dissatisfaction with portraits that resembled people. I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having to look at the sitter, being them. As far as I am concerned, the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as the flesh does.

+ The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

German born British figurative painter Lucian Freud
born Lucian Michael Freud - Berlin, Germany - 8th of December, 1922 / Lives London, UK
Popular Lucian Freud works include figurative paintings and etchings of the nude and portraits. His paintings are worked and reworked over time, using the skills and methods of old masters to create contemporary works that comfortably exist in the present.

Playing with pastels


Last Wednesday was the last Life drawing session before the holidays. I did a sketch of our model and because I was so busy with the holidays didn't really get a chance to really get into anything. I put the sketch up in the studio and just kept playing with it. Not having the model in front of me to figure out all the shadows or to make corrections...I just messed around... The leg looks off...but it is what it is. The face I'm not sure is in scale...but...it's art...which means I could put two heads on her if I wanted...and it would be "art"...so...here is my messing around creative endeavors until after the holidays.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Pastel


Another week, another session on Life Drawing....
I attempted to use a medium I haven't used in years and a medium I never learned a lot about. In drawing everyone uses different mediums....paint, ink, graphite, watercolor..and me...well, I was just needing to get back in the saddle and needed desperately to practice so I used graphite ...but....last week I did try pastel. I attempted to block in as my friend Gerrie does and it came out absolutely horrible!!!! SHE...has perfected her style...Finally on the longer pose I drew her, then used pastel. I combination of method and it was a little better.

It's hard to do anything as this month consumes me trying to get all the necessary things done for the holidays. I can feel I am a whirlwind-just blowing around errands.

This drawing is surly not perfect...her torso-yes, is a little long towards her hips...but...that's why I keep going!

She looks like she was falling asleep...she was!