two two page spreads for the book THE GIFT. A story about sacrificial giving. A young prince learns how important it is to think of others.

 

 Sketch book challenge

Making a sketchbook using prompt for art and words. 

I’ll give the prompt daily or close to daily. I will post my example. 

Day one:

                Art                                                                          Thought

1.   Salt water color                                           Record what you see
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2.   Pieces of material                    a quote by someone famous or not
   
   
   
   
3. Marker colored scraps of paper.                         Book cutouts
   
   
   
   
4. Pressed or iron flowers and leaves.               A wonderful memory or two

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assignment #3 ( having difficulty with the pictures. They don't import. Technology bites again.

I love this assignment almost as much as the first one. Just thinking about it has brought enlightment to who I am and what art has influenced me. I never thought about it that way before. I have organized it in both Chronological order and by theme - the horse.

When I was a child I loved to draw horses. At age seven I, actually, was on a kids TV show demonstrating how I drew this first horse in my list of ten.

1. Child horse drawing

2. Horse movie - when I was a bit older than when I drew the TV horse, I saw a movie about a boy who tried to save a wild stallion from capture. I unfortunately can’t produce a real picture as no one can recall the name of the movie. It was a handsome white stallion. The boy and horse escaped by riding into the sea at the end of the movie, very emotional for a ten year old who loves horses

3. I rode horses as I grew and learned to respect their spirit and fine body. Brushing and grooming them made their physical presence much clearer.

4. Roger Suruad, France - I fell in love with this artist’s style of composing several images on one canvas. I especially loved the ones with horses running in them. www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com, Roger+Suraud+%2B+Tutt%27Art%40+

5. Venice is my favorite city and the four beautiful Byzatine  horses is a contributing factor. The Horses of Saint Mark, also known as the Triumphal Quadriga, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing) The horses were placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

6. Using the inspiring paintings of Suraud and the visit to the horses of St. Mark, I painted this oil on canvas.2’X3” depicting the things I treasured from my trips to Venice

1. An Irish mythology tells of the kelpie horses appearing out of the rolling waves of the sea. My friend Jane O’Donahue wrote a children’s book about it and I made an Illustration for the cover. (No Photo available) W/C and guache.

1. Gennady Spirin uses soft use of color and design and I just love looking at his illustrations like this one of the fanciful horse.

9. My research into medieval times for a book I am writing brought me to parades of nobility through villages on horseback and prompted me to make a silver point picture of a unicorn.

9.  Leonardo da Vinci ‘s horses were very inspirational for my oil painting. I used two of his horses among mine.

10. My latest project, horses running out of the water, ocean, in oil on canvas.

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Assignment picture the epitomizes art

I did research, trying to choose the one picture that I though was representative of fine art as directed.

1. Then, make or describe something (or choose a work by another artist) that stands for what you think people in the world think art should be—because a teacher or expert told you that’s what art is, or because that’s what you think “good art" is, or because you think this is what the art market wants, etc.                               

I looked the Masters and discovered that 95% of their work is portraits. The rest are religious. Some landscape artist are famous but not as high up as Michael and Leonardo. This paining by Sargent is my favorite and the favorite of many others.  It does tell a story, begs questions and is so pleasant to view.

I also chose The School of Athens by Raphael. It seems to encompass architecture, perspective, portraits, use of color and design. All the elements of  dynamic art.

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picture that epitomizes art

I joined this course late but love it already. I won't do the drawing/paintings right away. I loved doing the research. Wow, I learned so much!

I am including pictures I feel answer some of the assigned questions.

For a picture the would or did have an impact on the world I chose:

The Napalm Child-  Though this is a photograph and often not even considered fine art it actually had a tremendous impact on the Viet Nam War.

seahorse dream rider mermaid

zentangle black threads

pictures

Today I begin the fun project of designing, sculpting and painting a mermaid riding on the back of a seahorse. This project is a fund raiser for the children's hospital in Fort Myres FL. 
I have named mine Dream Rider. 
I have planned the project at home in Massachusetts and will adjust now that I see it in person. It is smaller than I am used to with the six- seven foot sneaker and the six foot sea turtle.
I will post many pictures so that the progress will be self evident. I sent time measuring and planing the demensions of the sculpture.

I unwrapped the seahorse and drew the design on the blank. I noticed that the shape is slightly different on either side. Adjustments were made. It is more challenging to draw on a bumpy surface. 

I the drew over the pencil with a tipped nozzle bottle of black acrylic.  I thought it would work like a marker. Boy was I wrong. First, the thick paint drips ( see photo.) everywhere it's vertical. Then my hand especially my thumb hurt from squeezing it for three hour. We live and learn.


See the pictures of my first morning. have some glitches with this blog. look for pictures soon.

Tomorrow I will design the seahorse painting.
I have drawn the "strings" or separations for the zentangle designs. Each section will have a design. I have an idea that I will decorate the tips with jewels. All is a trial and test.
I will also buy the styrofoam head and start building the mermaid. I have 11 days. Yikes!

Attempt#2

I am beginning a great new project and plan to blog it daily. It is a mermaid sculpture riding on a seahorse. I call it Dream Rider.

It is a fundraiser for the children's hospital in Fort Myers, FL. 

I have designed and planned the project and will begin tomorrow. Some adjustments have to be made as it looks different in person. Here are my plans and the actual first look at the seahorse.

graphic novel - science lab

first page can't rotate yet

I found a graphic novel I started a few years ago. I have placed it on my do list. Here is a copy of one page. These are the drawn pages and the pages I used for inspiration or model.  Not working!