Joy

Find Joy! Kasia and her husband, Jamie, both presented a lesson this week for Wanderlust, Everything Art, and encouraged us to just play and not worry about results. Just find joy in the process. Fun!

Gelli plate print.

Black Gesso through stencil.

Joy can not be forced. It comes unbidden in a burst of unexplained lightness of the heart, a surprise of a smile, a giddy lack of concern or fear. Not something that comes about easily or planned. Cherish the moments of joy!

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Field Notes in Pencils

Kelly Hoernig presented this week's lesson of Wanderlust, Everything Art. She gave some really great lessons in shading and using acrylic paints as washes. Sometimes, lessons are wonderful motivators to go in your own direction and my pencils were calling to me. I found my nature items from my back yarn. Placed them on Kraft with a bright light coming from my right, and took a photo. Then, I printed the photo out on Kraft using only grey tones of ink and washed out. Prismacolor pencils were used followed by a stump for blending just the shadows. 

The final piece was added to my journal with more texture and color.

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Hand Designed Papers for Nature Collage

Sarah Gardner presented this week's lesson of Wanderlust, Everything Art. She had us playing with paints and papers to use to cut out our own collage papers.

Often, I just have to use whatever is in front of me (a big follower of the laws of propinquity). I had a piece of Kraft on my desk, that I dabbed with white paint, a piece of purple cardstock, that I scraped with the leftover white paint. Some Kraft that I had run through an embossing folder and run over with Distress inks. Ripping and cutting produced this forest-like scene. The background was a page that had remnants of a used stencil, and the additional colors came onto the page from Pitt Artist brush pens. 

What fun! Thanks, Sarah, and thanks to anyone who visits!

A Bit of a Take on Kandinsky and Nature

Marieke Blokland presented this amazing lesson of Wanderlust, Everything Art. She suggested using an artist's rendition of nature for inspiration. As I looked for something, I was very surprised to find that Wassily Kandinsky, who I always thought of as an abstract artist, did this landscape (photo under my rendition)!

I was also surprised to find this little lady, almost visible in the original, helping that little train....I think I can, I think I can..... 

Super lesson and so much fun. The hardest part, for me, is waiting for layers to dry....well, and clean-up!

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Nature From My Yard

Kasia Avery presented this lesson of Wanderlust, Everything Art. Her theme was "nature" and it was fun to collect what I could find in my yard to add to this page.

I found some tiny pebbles, some seed pods, and thin branch pieces. The base is Fibatape, then modeling paste, some brushed on inks, and a final layer of clear gel. Weighs a ton, LOL!

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