Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Fantascapes, Figurative Abstracts, Paintings, Workshops on July 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ink, gesso and acrylic on watercolor paper, 15 X 11″
Yesterday at Chops Teen Club I was doing my artist-in-residence gig, which was supposed to be “Fantascapes”. Anything I paint these days has a strong fantasy element and so could be called FANTAsylandSCAPE. Not that I start out with a fantasy in mind. [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Workshops on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Acrylic, collage, image transfer, on sketchbook paper
I was playing around with image transfer techniques (contact paper) and pulled out pictures of my father’s side of the family, all Norwegians from North Dakota/Minnesota. It’s always a little spooky to hang out with ancestor pictures for more than a few minutes. You start to get [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks, Workshops on June 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Whereas Saturday we worshiped shade and iced drinks, when Sunday dawned, the jackets went on. A new group of students arrived seeking sun for their warm up sketches. Several students wanted to find a way to either overcome “beginner-itis” or to find a way to jump back into an art practice in a [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks, Workshops on June 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Saturday’s workshop students doing their warm up sketches
This is sketching boot camp. Do you see students standing, perching and squatting, bending over and balancing, with pens and paints and water and paper? And on top of it all, a sun so merciless that people were clinging to their spots of shade in the [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Fantascapes, Workshops on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Watercolor, pen, collage on sketchbook paper
The Catch
Butterflies in the tummy herald the bounty of the catch
while the Muses haul it in. . .
On Sunday another Meeting with the Muses convened in my studio. This group comes together to absolutely indulge the creative spirit in a feast of art play and shared wisdom. In [...]
Posted in Fantascapes, Nature Abstractions, Paintings, Workshops on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Join me for the next Vision Painting Workshop coming up May 17 and 18 at my studio in the wine country north of San Francisco! More details on my Imagine With Art website.
Acrylic on illustration board, 7″ X11″
After a bit of a Fantascape-escape I am back with #8 in the series. If I hadn’t [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks, Workshops on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
by Bettina Armstrong
This little frog sculpture stands right outside my studio door. But never has he had so much personality as when Bettina (who’s sort of a beginner with watercolor) sat down to do this 15 minute color sketch. I timed them you see, so I know how long it was. A [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Workshops on April 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
How many people do you know who want to do art but say they don’t have time for it? Most of the people I know actually (including myself, only that’s because I’m so greedy and always want more time for it) I’ve adapted to this time starvation by constantly seeking and discovering ways [...]
Posted in Workshops on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Watercolor, salt, w/c pencil on paper by Cammie (4th grade)
Cammie and Haley were back on Monday for some art play with me! Since we all have chickens, we had to get caught up on what was happening in the chicken world first. They have a hen who is brooding (sitting on eggs to [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Workshops on March 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
contemplative sketch piece by Mary (student in last Sat’s workshop)
Right now I am looking out my window at these very same birds catching the thermals over the trees below my studio. Such is the way that life segues back and forth from art. We started out last Saturday’s workshop working with black [...]
