Creative Play Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 11)- Do Something Different
In March’s newsletter, I wrote about the importance of play time to stimulate your creative juices and how I have found the times when I have allowed time for play to be some of my most creative. But what if that still doesn’t work? There certainly are days when even …
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Photo Friday – Flowers
Here’s the last of my homework from the sketching and watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. This was due weeks ago, but I hadn’t gotten to it. But, my tardiness gave me the great opportunity to paint some flowers for a dear friend’s birthday card and then have it do double …
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Photo Friday – Woman Made
This week’s assignment in my sketching and watercolor class was to draw a machine-made object. I spent some time noodling over what object had meaning to me that I wanted to draw when I looked down on my work table and the answer became obvious: Because this month’s BirdZeed challenge …
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Photo Friday: Shoes
I was really looking forward to this week’s lesson for the Jane LaFazio sketching class. This week: shoes! I chose to sketch the Electric Purple Chucks that I bought myself as part of my 40th birthday presents. They’ve become my favorites. But, they are not as dirty as they look …
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Photo Friday – Continuous Line Drawing
Continuing this week with my Sketching and Watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. This week – continuous line drawing. I’m getting a little better. 🙂
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Photo Friday – Leaves
Here’s my project from Week 2 of the sketching and watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. Happily, they do actually look like leaves, but my watercolor painting still needs a little work. Still, stretching myself a bit with a new medium is great fun even if these paintings will never see …
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Photo Friday – Fruit
My photography class has ended, but now I am taking Sketching & Watercolor – Journal Style with Jane LaFazio so for the next few weeks, I’ll have some of that work to post here. This week’s lesson was in drawing and painting fruit. What I did does actually look like fruit …
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New Year, New Project
Yeah, I do have enough to do but I felt like doing something new and taking a class so I signed up for one. It’s with Jane LaFazio (Jane is a watercolor, mixed media and quilt artist..) and it’s called Sketching and Watercolor: Journal Style. Neither sketching nor watercolor painting are things …
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