Postings of my various and sundry attempts at something like art
We started a new painting class project in February. It’s a picture our teacher took while touring around near La Crescent / La Cross.
The actual blog post is at https://www.notion.so/Woodcarver-s-Barn-ef644546068e41c5887a0256908c1a18
Doing things a little differently this time. Instead of writing my blog post here, I wrote it using Notion.so.
For the new year, I am trying to do some art making every day. Today I wanted to work on some watercolours, but my hands were so cold, I couldn’t hold a brush very effectively.
Instead, I went to the iPad, and was able to do stuff under the covers.
Continue reading “Digital Painting, January 3, 2021”
Early December 2020 project, from a photograph taken by our instructor.
Continue reading “Seal Beach, California”
One of the other students gave us a picture of one of her flowers, an amaryllis, and our teacher turned it into a class lesson.
Continue reading “Amaryllis, November 11, 2020”
This was a class project, and it was fun. We used some techniques that we’d learned previously, applying them to an whole project.
Continue reading “Barn, Snow, Pine Tree, and Fences”
Painting a maritime scene from a photo taken in Nova Scotia. In this class project, we learned how to take a photograph and arrange and compose it to make a better painting.
Continue reading “Nova Scotia Maritime”
Doing some digital sketches
Continue reading “Sketches”
The source image was from watercolour class, but I thought it would make a great watercolour painting.
Continue reading “Mountains and Birds”
We were given several images of fallen leaves, and told to paint them. I put together a composition using one of the leaves.
Continue reading “Autumn Leaves”