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'Christmas Branches' pigma pen and inktense pencils in 8x6 sketchbook

'Take A Dive' pigma pen and inktense pencils in 8x6 sketcchbook

'Keep Your Eye on the Prize' pigma pen and prismacolor pencils in 8x6 sketchbook

Drawings from the past few days - hope your week is going well.  I am especially aware of the importance of friendship and family during this time.  

Thanks for visiting!

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'Juggling' pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 sketchbook

Sunset, 2:45 pm at Greens Camp

Smiling and waving from mid-week!  Hope you are well and creating beauty.  See you this weekend for the Drawing Challenge at Stefanie's place.

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Recently appearances in my sketchbook.  I am working in an 8x6 Stillman and Birn 'Alpha' series book.

study for woodcut block - pigma pen

(I am signed up for a woodcut printing class with a visiting artist, Mete Hanson, who will be here next week).

'The Burden of Winter' - pigma pen and inktense pencil

inktense pencils

 'Totem' - pigma pen and prismacolor pencil

Flossy and I are taking the day off tomorrow in honor of the National day of gratitude here in the US.  Happy thanksgiving, all!

Post Script:

Pastor Mike wearing the new stole at PLC last Sunday.  All praise to our kind and loving Creator!

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'Apple' - pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 gamma

pigma pen and inktense pencil in 8x6 gamma

I am pretty much all set to hang my exhibit tomorrow at the museum, and excited to do so.  Always a new perspective to see work out in the world away from the studio.  I will post pictures...

quiet

moonrise last evening

the eating kind

the pretty kind

pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 sketchbook

pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 sketchbook

Hope your week is going swimmingly.

DC: Homage

The challenge was indeed a challenge this week, as time got away from me and I was down to the wire this evening, not an idea in my head for whom pay homage.  UNTIL...

My eyes wandered to this book:

Pablo Picasso was one of the earliest Gods in my Art Pantheon, right next to Michelangelo.  He may have been a womanizer and an egomaniac, but the man could really draw.

So in homage (which originally meant pledging fealty to a Lord) to the Great Man, an Art God still to me, I give you this humble tribute:

'Homage' -  graphite and prismacolor in 8x6 gamma

Thank you to the amazing Kristen for this week's drawing challenge.  I will be around to pay homage the other players tomorrow.  Hope you will do the same.

Completing Some Work

My sewing machine put in many miles this week.  What fun to begin completing the gelliplate monoprints created this winter. 

gelliplate monoprints on cotton, January 2013

My Mother gave me a  Gelliplate for Christmas and I've spent many many hours happily printing in the months since.  I'm printing on both paper and cotton, captivated by the rich surface textures possible with the medium.

my design wall in February, 2013, with Gelliplate monoprints 'fermenting'

 I've ended up with quite a stack of prints (to put it mildly).  This week I got busy bringing closure to the lot done in January on cotton.  I am using stitching (by hand and machine), painting, beading and prismacolor pencils to develop the images first revealed in the prints.

 Before stitching, I fuse the untrimmed images to felt using Mistyfuse - with out a doubt the BEST fusing material I have found.

 None of these little guys have titles yet, but there is time before they leave the studio.

 Sometimes I have to live with them for awhile before they give up their names.

These are all quite small, averaging around 6" in height.  

After the machine stitching is completed, I trim the piece and bind it with rat tail cording or other fiber using a zigzag stitch.

I am back in the groove machine stitching again and look forward to moving on to the larger images this week.  Our summer weather came back meanwhile. 

 Hope you have an outstanding week ahead!

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pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 gamma sketchbook

pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 gamma sketchbook

All the deadlines of the past several weeks have been met.  As I breathe a sigh of satisfaction, I am also looking forward to preparing for a new round of challenges coming up toward the end of the summer.  

My next solo show one of our two local galleries will be opening the first Friday of September; I am curating the Rain Forest Festival art show that same weekend; mid-September I am going to be traveling - more about this in future posts.  Lots to anticipate with joy and enthusiasm.  

What's coming up for you?

Relishing Summer

So much to be grateful for this week...

...blue skies...

...warmer temperatures...

...LONG days...

...and Summer's Screaming Green palette.

crab apple blossoms

baby pine cones

Best of all, our Daughter is coming for a week's visit tomorrow and our Son is coming up to work for the summer on Sunday.

I will be taking a little break from studio work this week.  Here are some projects in mid-stream, waiting for my return:

detail of  one of a series of procion dye paintings, waiting to be stitched

monoprint, acrylic paint and prismacolor pencil on cotton, 6"x8", waiting to be stitched

containers of low-water emersion over-dyes, all cottons, which I will rinse out tomorrow while I wait for Daughter's plane to land in the morning

Hope your week is going well.  Got gratitude?

DC: Mood Board

Ariane's challenge to create a mood board for the Drawing Challenge this week lead me on an interesting research project.  Google-ing turned up an article with tricks and tips for creating mood boards.  I learned about 'Mat Board', an alternative to 'Pinterest', and signed up.

Digital Mood Board, created in Picasa

 I decided to make a board to help clarify my vision for an upcoming public art proposal I'm working on. 

I hope you can read my mood!

Whimsical

Colorful

Happy

Mood boards in abundance are viewable through links over at Ariane's, where the mood is always serene and lovely.

Finally, I can't resist showing you a few of the images I've been working on this week:

'Nadia's View' - monoprint on Japanese paper with prismacolor pencil and paper collage, 8"x10"

'Reflection' - monoprint on cotton with prismacolor pencil, 8"x10"

detail, work in progress - procion on cotton

Thanks for visiting, and have a great week ahead!

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A little share of pages from my daily drawing sketchbook, which is an 8"x6" Stillman and Birn 'Gamma'.  

Enjoy!

'Unravel' - pigma pen

'Flowering Tree' - pigma pen and prismacolor pencils

'Angry Angels' - pigma brush pen and inktense pencils

 (I remain grateful to Lynne for introducing me to this excellent type of sketchbook). 

DC # 100 - Dance

 Hurry, hurry!  

We don't want to be late - for the DANCE!

pencil in 6x4 studio sketchbook

'Dancing Mermaid' - pigma pen and prismacolor pencil in 8x6 gamma

Thank you, Patrice, for giving a celebratory theme to the 100th Drawing Challenge.  Talented artists are kicking up their heels this week over at her always-stimulating blog.  Waltz on over and join the dance!

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Continuing my practice of (nearly) daily drawing, I offer here some of the recent developments in my sketch books:

I am doing exercises from Wendy Hollender's book 'Botanical Drawing in Color'...

(Thanks, Lynne, for the recommendation of this FINE text book!)

and just fooling around as usual...

...had a little fun with an old Vogue magazine and my glue stick...

...and creating a page for my new sketch book, started on the first of the month, when the Sailor got home, so happy!

She was drawn with one of those lovely water soluble Stabilo pencils and the water brush my Mom gave me.

pigma pen and prismacolor pencils in my new gamma 8x6 book

We are relishing a sunny week - hope you are relishing, whatever you have where you are!