Student Art
The art in these galleries was created the many students in my classes!
ROCKS
We painted rocks using a razor blade, plastic wrap, salt and traditional watercolor painting techniques too.
Trees Trees Trees
Look at all of these wonderful trees filled with textures, colors and bird holes!
Spring Flowers 2
We painted flowerish shapes then inked them in a beautiful way!
Watercolor on Canvas
Watercolor on canvas is very different than painting on paper and it is very fun!
SNOWY TREES
Many watercolor techniques were used to make these magical and colorful trees!
Shelf Portraits
Not all portraits are exact likenesses. In this class, the challenge was: Create a ‘portrait’ using some of the things in your home that describe YOU. To prepare for this class, look around you for things to draw and/or paint on your ‘shelf’. They can be arranged as a still life or lined up or …
Reflections of Venice
We can't travel there now but we can go there in our minds and on paper!
Watercolor Basics
A series of 4 classes focusing on the Foundations of painting with watercolor. Here are just a few samples from these ongoing classes.
1 - Brush Control
2 - Color Wheel
3 - The Value of Color
4 - Color Intensity
Vacation Memories
In this class we used some of our past vacation photos to paint a fun memory. Remember when we could travel? We focused on foreground, middle ground and back ground as well as adding people to the scene. Some worked from one photo and some combined multiple images to recreate our memory.
Genesis Creation Story Art
This was an introductory fellowship class for a Bible Study on the book of Genesis lead by Jennifer K. This art was created in 7 steps. Beautiful creations! More art to come!
Parts of a Whole
In this challenge we took apart the subject piece by piece as we drew it! We rearranged the parts into a whole new design! Some are orderly and lined up. Some are exploded or randomly arranged. Our personalities show in the compositions!
Cinque Terre on Zoom
We can’t go in person, but we can pretend we are there. I taught a class with IlChiostro and we pretended that we were able to see all 5 towns in just a few hours using my photos from my last Workshop. Here are the wonderful results! More to come soon…
Details Details
In this class, we focused on the DETAILS! We found the little things in our subject that interested us and spent some time drawing and painting them in great detail. It was very fun!
More Wonky Hands
I taught the Vienna Arts Society Artists a Fearless Drawing Class!Everyone drew with their Non-Dominant hand and came up with these wonky and wonderful pieces!
Found Poems
In this class everyone found the words to their poem already written on a page full of words. They blacked out the words NOT in the poem. Then they decorated and embellished their page. It was a very fun thing to do! It’s called Black Out Poetry ‘invented’ by Austin Kleon. Thanks for the idea, …
Zoom In
In this class, the artists use their photos to zoom in closer and closer in different areas as they discovered various compositions, shapes and textures in a whole new way. Look at the results!
Painting With Scissors
In this Creativity Challenge, each artist painted various papers with colors and textures. Using this new paper and many other found papers, the paintings were cut and redesigned into a whole new painting!
Fearless Drawing
Look what happened when the artists drew their hand with their non-dominant hand!
Spring Flowers
Using watercolors and ink everyone painted beautiful imaginary flowers. It was all about the amount of water on the brush, the choice of colors and the twisted brush stroke.
Peace Church Pentecost Art
I taught an Pentecost themed art lesson after Church via Zoom. See how everyone did!