Today I played with artists from Community Thrive, painting their way.  I didn’t like all that I did, but will show you the “failures” too.  The thing about classes is two-fold, assuming you are pretty good at making art:

1. I am pushed outside my boundaries to try something that a friend/teacher does, which I find often results in picking up a bit of this or that which is eventually owned and incorporated into my own style.
2. If I am stuck in any way (blocked) — which is rare, but more on that another time — doing what I am told will unblock me!  This is also the fun of challenges.
3. I get to make bad art too, and that tells me what I don’t want to do next time.  Paper is expendable . . .

A Buddha I hated, turned into a Buddha I hate a little less.

A background I hated, with a face added, AAACK.

She’s not too bad. . .

I had an image I didn’t like, and had tried Mystele Kirkeeng‘s class from another day, and in desperation to save the under-drawing (my brown watercolor details came out dark as night in a blob) I just took water and a fat brush and scrubbed it.  It’s not my favorite, but I don’t hate it anymore, due to the influence of Mystele and Dina Wakley (who suggested faces.)  I don’t usually play with faces at all, and played with two today, both on throw-away papers.

First phase

Galloping Horses detail. . .

Then I tried Dina Wakley‘s process, changing things as I wanted.  I didn’t have the supplies she suggested.  This one was a lot of fun, using my hands to move the acrylic inks (I have always used my hands) and sewing on a machine (aaack!) and writing and and and: fun, lose, lines, yay!  I used my beloved horses!

Beginning

More

Bird shows up

Gotta add some lines

Bluebird in the House!

Rainbow Bluebird!

Then Jeannette House had a bird she wanted painted, but I still had Dina Wakley in my head, so while I will try Jeanette’s bird her way, I also did it in the spirit of loose and bright and made-up!  Fun, lose, lines, yay!

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