After painting ice cream sundaes, cupcakes, doughnuts and pecan pie I did a “chaser” of fruit. It wasn’t as fun as the desert but a lot easier than dripping ice cream or frosting. (jw)
Acrylic
Fruit Chaser
Appetizer
Main Course
On doctor’s “orders” I’ve been struggling to lose weight. The biggest problem I’ve discovered is swallowing. Now that art classes have resumed I think I’ve solved the “swallowing problem” . . . I’m painting . . .
Taking a painting class as well as life drawing. Because of a class schedule mix-up, the class is oil PORTRAIT PAINTING – a bit more advanced than I am and I use acrylic paint which is a bit trickier for portraits. Luckily the assignments are using photographs which are already reduced to 2 dimensions, making it a bit easier.
It occurred to me that in life we go through ugly stages before we become more refined. Like paintings we all have layers and layers of “stuff” beneath the surface of what others see. Here’s a Peek at mine (painting that is, not life):
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Practice makes perfect . . . so they say . . . I’m practicing using just 3 colors burnt Umber, raw Siena and white.
These are all studies in value which is training my eye to see darks, lights and midtones. It’s easier when using just one or two colors and right now I’m all for easier.
Attended a painting workshop today at Art & Creativity for Healing a wonderful non-profit for which I helped facilitate workshops many years ago.
Laurie Zagon the founder and creator of the Art4Healing® method has created a wonderful vehicle to express feelings using color. It’s not about making “art” but about processing thoughts, feelings and experiences using paint. Today’s workshop was “Painting Hope”.
The paintings are done very rapidly so that intuition rather than artistic skill is the focus. And it’s hard to be skillful when make-up sponges and q-tips are used instead of brushes!
Here’s mine:#CreativeSprint
14 x 18 acrylic, Prayer of Hope
Please check out Art 4 Healing.org. Their mission is to support emotional healing through art & creative expression for those living in pain, grief, fear or stress.
There are on-line video workshops available to everyone, anywhere. Proceeds go towards providing free workshops to organizations such as wounded veterans, Children’s Hospital and woman’s shelters.
9 x 12 Acrylic, Painting Hope
Acrylic painting by moi
(poem with 2 “haiku verses”, Haiku Horizons’ prompt CIRCLE)
Haiku Horizons – prompt CIRCLE
Pea Love, cheap acrylic paint & cheap paper
Assignment was to do an illustration for The Princess & The Pea using a credit card as our “paint brush”. The horizontal lines represent the mattresses and the big round green thing is a vegetable.
I started the illustration by smearing paint with a credit card over the entire paper:
Acrylic by Lisa
| I don’t know why Judy but watching this slide show…has left me overwhelmed.. that feeling of connectedness..the magic of WE was reaching me too….
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Take a look at the incredible creative expressions by the participants in a 4-week The HEart of Spirituality GroupShop. The first exercise “Creation” was using oil pastels on black paper. The second was a process painting using acrylic paint on canvas board. (Unfortunately the brilliant oil pastel colors don’t show. My camera setting wasn’t right for the lighting.)
Afterwards we processed each painting: How the elements of the paintings and the process of creating corresponds to and are metaphors for our lives. It was a great group!
Those of you who have been following Max’s blog know that Max and I really like to share other people’s creative expression.
Every once in a while I stubble across an artist whose work inspires me. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Therese’s use of color and particularly the portraits she paints. Therese-joseph.com
AND take a look at Therese’s blog Therese Lydia Joseph — she teaches art to children and there are examples of her lessons and the children’s artwork. And if children’s work isn’t inspiring I don’t know what is.
AND she writes poetry! Here’s what she wrote about this painting:
Larger than Life
Boasting lightly – vim and vigour
Destined to be bold and bigger
Better than Bliss
Blooming brightly – free and fragrant
Rich and regal – somewhat vagrant
Softer than Silk
Blushing slightly – red and rosy
Crafted to be kind and cozy
Taller than Time
Budding tightly – bloom and blossom
Never wilting – always awesome
Painting & Poetry by Therese Lydia Joseph
* Exception to rule #1: No painting the walls
**Exception to rule #2: No painting the carpet
***Exception to rule #3: No painting the facilitator.
****Every person in every workshop has exceeded my expectation.
Paintings from classes taught by Therese Lydia Joseph at
A favorite Therapeutic Creative Expression exercise is mask painting – whether it is on an actual mask or on a 2-dimensional outline
I have participants paint or collage the inside and the outside of their mask representing in color, symbol, design how they experience
PHYSICAL, MENTAL or EMOTIONAL PAIN:
what they present to the outside world and what they experience on the inside that no one can see.
There is a worksheet on the TUTORIAL PAGE – click on TUTORIALS in the header and scroll down – that helps PROCESS the exercise. The processing is as important as creating the mask.
The green mask is the only one that is collaged using torn pieces of magazine as “color”. All the rest are painted with acrylic paint or drawn on with crayon.
I have three masks hanging in my office waiting room. I find all the masks beautiful, each in their own way.
I would love to know what your vision is.
Acrylic
http://Haiku-Heights.blogspot.com
Week’s prompt: ghost
CURIOUS to the MAX 