More Abstract Adventures

Here's another abstract - this one was done largely without brushes. I applied most of the paint layers by dragging and scraping with an old price-chopper card. I added some think globs of red with a brush, and lots of drippy layers with a sopping wet brush.

After living with it for a few days, I decided it was too light and drippy in the middle, so I scraped on some more layers, added thick black brush blobs, and then misted it with water to create a few new drips. I like it a lot better. I'm not sure it's done, but I've moved on to something else for a while.

Child's Play

I finished watching all the videos from the 21 Secrets Child's Play workshop and I've been playing around with the ideas. LOVE this simple stamp technique - wrapping yarn around an object:

Then spreading acrylic paint on the yarn and stamping on some painted backgrounds:

The instructor is Alma Stoller and she includes some links to her blog and the tutorials she's posted there. I also followed the link to see the tutorial on turning magazine pages into canvas and really liked the stitching idea. Since I was at Nancy's house where the sewing machine is always set up, I glued and stitched a stack of new canvases. This one has some preliminary paint layers and more simple homemade stamps.

Fearless Painting

"21 Secrets" opened today and I dove right in with Connie Hozvicka's Abstract Adventure.
Very inspiring painting process - went right out and bought a big water color pad and clipped it onto the drying rack on the door so I could paint vertically. I used my new liquitex basics and painted this. I couldn't decided which colors to use so I used them ALL! There's an awful lot going on, but I had great fun doing it.

True confessions - this next one is a copy of something I saw on the wall of Connie's studio while I was watching her tutorial. I loved the colors and pattern and really wanted to try the technique.

I was hating this next one until I started stamping all over it with random household objects, now I find it much more interesting.

more paintings.....

love the texture of this one.

It's all about the process, and not being afraid, and being intuitive. I'm trying to smother the inner critic with paint and just have fun.

21 Secrets

So I'm hopping around between a dozen or so blogs, looking for inspiration, watching you tube videos, and pondering purchasing various on-line workshops and tutorials. I start seeing the same link on several different pages and I finally click through to learn more.
It's called: 21 Secrets - An Art Journal Playground and YOWZA it looks heavenly. 21 different artists teaching 21 different art journalling classes for one low price. (How many classes can I get for these monies?)
I immediately registered and now I have to wait until April 1st for the "playground to open".
In the meantime, I promise to KEEP MAKING STUFF and not spend all of my days looking at other people's work.