the issues of the next layer automatically present themselves.
Fall in love with life, create space for passion, Every time I take action on my own behalf I am becoming more fully myself.
Renew my faith in a Greater Spirit, become comfortable with stillness, quiet the mental
chatter, maintain my own stillness, Trust Peace.
A playful piece, Passionate Times.
Working with color in the background and applying collage, image transfers and gestural lines with some shading splattering and stamping.
Brought in a few sample here on the wall, for a vertical collage piece with pattern and visual texture. As Ideas student could pull from. Creating a palette non objective design orientated collage works can be a playful environment for most of us....Being able to open up and explore what is next to each other as of color and to layer up a paper and go through the ugly stage is the challenge. But seeing it happen right before our eyes and feeling the changes emotionally as we make these papers are priceless.
Started working the big Kraft paper Grocery bags with gesso and then a layer of gestural lines along with a layer of color....stamping and stenciling along with a bit splattering can make a great sheet of collage paper to cut up and use through many piece of art.
I'm still learning as an instructor how to teach. The experience I have and what can happen always needs to be broken down for better understanding. Here in this class we are creating papers, a new palette to work with. Each time, each class I have my students do this. Yes they end up with lots of paper but that is the palette to work with and we need provide ourselves with choices.
The beauty of the Nevr Dull Nat. Geo. magazine papers and the sanded one offers each of us a direction for color in the rest of the papers we create. As you can see the colors emerging. It's just so exciting to see.
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A bit of India Ink and some handmade mark making tools for these beautiful lined on some white paper. The paper can be toned with other color later which some of us might do. It's only the Second class out of Five so we will be finishing up the paper palette making this Friday so we can move into creating out vertical collages.
I was invited over today to see this dear artists back yard. I had seen it last September but the changes of the cooler season were already happening. I see it from the inside out as I dropped off a piece of artwork for her daughter that she bought from me. I was in awe, truly it's heaven to walk around the back yard. I didn't stay long just enough to capture the sounds of the bees and the smells of the flowers and greens. I can't believe this is in someone back yard. So many different varieties of ground cover and ferns along with large Hosta leaves....She said it's taken her 34 or 35 years to get it to this point. I'm still in awe and very delighted to have this sways of positive energy to step into.
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