This is one from a while back but I still look at it every day because I really like the technique that helped me get those smudgy shapes in white and black. It’s a technique I learned from Chery Baird, who I mention here often. It involves a torn edge of a magazine or some other kind of shiny slippery surface that you covered with oil pastel, then smudge off with your fingers on to your substrate. Lots and lots of possibilities
Many years ago I came across a small book by Louise Hay called Colors and Numbers. She explained a system for using numerology to calculate some personal yearly, monthly, and daily numbers, then mapping them to colors and to themes. So, for me, August 2021 is a blue month, with creativity as its theme. Let’s see what I can do with that!
In July 2021 I finally got to go back to an in person art workshop. Even better, it was back in Atlanta with the tireless and talented Chery Baird through Spruill Arts Center. And to top it off, my dear friend Deb Lehman was there painting right along side me. I’ve taken this workshop,before, and the format means that you start five or six paintings, and may or may not finish them because we work in rounds of prompts.
The fun comes from the variety of mark making, materials, and layers that goes into each one, and even if we’re all following the same general directions no two pieces ever come out looking the same general directions, no two pieces ever come out looking the same. I still have A few unfinished pieces from this session, and to be honest a few unfinished pieces from sessions before, but I feel pretty reinvigorated.
