Man, today was kick ass awesome. I took a watercolor batik class with Kathie George. I did this technique once before and really liked it. I learned so much. And most important of all I trusted myself. The flowers in the original were pink, and that's not really my favorite color, so I went with orange (well a pink orange) instead and kind of wound up with red, but I'm so happy. Every step of the way, I stopped and thought about things and then decided on my own (mostly) if something needed more color or whatever.
This is a big deal to me, because I'm usually very much the pattern follower and if the pattern says this color then that's what I use. I also think it was a good lesson to learn that I do understand color, value, and shading. Three cheers for me. I'm so unbelievably proud of this painting!
I took a colored pencil class for the first time today. This design was taught by Kelly Hoernig. I really didn't know what to expect. I found the butterfly quite easy to do. It felt like coloring only on steroids. I almost had a meltdown with the flower because it was different...strokes instead of coloring in. I went to lunch and came back it was all good. It was a lot of fun!!
Man, today was kick ass awesome. I took a watercolor batik class with Kathie George. I did this technique once before and really liked it. I learned so much. And most important of all I trusted myself. The flowers in the original were pink, and that's not really my favorite color, so I went with orange (well a pink orange) instead and kind of wound up with red, but I'm so happy. Every step of the way, I stopped and thought about things and then decided on my own (mostly) if something needed more color or whatever.
I'm at the Artist Expo in Houston for the next few days. Today I had watercolor class with Carol Spohn. The background was pretty cool to make...we used gauze, plastic wrap and waxed paper to create texture. Then we hit it with a little gold spray paint and waited ever so impatiently for it to dry. After it was dry, we peeled all the stuff off and there was a cool background. Next we added some lines and circles and voila.
