Patricia

Forgive the photo edges. I might scream as the computer has taken over and refuses to allow me to edit edges out of my photos! I will not stay up all night to argue with the uncooperative machine. Patricia's first night ever. Bashful at first, covered with gorgeous silk. She could have kept it on. All so very beautiful. I attempted to challenge myself working with hi-fi grays. Learning, feeling my way around. As we took on the hour pose I pulled into the conte fragments surviving in my pencil case from days gone by. And then white and black charcoal pencils. Not used in eons. Felt successful. Sketches could use more work. Seems to be a standing habit, working something and setting it free. I must learn new habits. Growing is good, but completion of tasks begun needs higher priority. David Hettinger is heading a workshop on portraits next Monday. Thinking I need to align my own stars and make it happen. Sponge like, absorption rate is going up.

Saturday Class

Trinity and I were working with perspective yesterday afternoon. Quite a difficult task, imaginary and new medium to discover. Trinity worked with a waterfall and sunset before penciling a nice tree. I worked on the same piece, attempting to make something of worth. Many hours to go to accomplish that. Did acquire much more appreciation for the work of pastel artists!

Jordan is in town

It's always nice to see Jordan although she is a waif of a being. She encompasses beauty and effort both. I stepped out of norm again and brought earthtone chalks with me to session. Noticed them in storage last night when looking for brayer for inking plates to print. Didn't find the brayer, but thought these would refresh and hone some skill while teaching perspective in Saturday's Art Smart class by adding some color to our buildings imagined. The colors were a bit dark, but I felt sucessful, although my CD player went on the fritz this evening and part of the evening we listened to classical opera via radio. There were chuckles and friendship going on with that! Somehow it accepted Celtic Women, A New Journey and then fritzed again, as if it was going to choose the evenings music. Must be that full moon eclipse going on.

Printmaking with Linoleum

"Vanity"


"The Flag"

Took some time this evening to print part of editions on current plates. Size of prints are small, 3x5 on "The Flag" and 5x8 for "Vanity" Vanity was not very easy to print and quite a few misprints will be destroyed. I shared a proof of "The Flag" last month with demo at Oswego Cultural Arts Center. I eyed some plexi plates sized for small intaglio plates in my storage and am certain I need to pull in a day to bevel edges and move forward with those. So much to do, so very little time.

Sidetracked

Intended to get some printing done, work on some matting, a little time in on dog portrait with holiday weekend. Didn't happen. Much catching up on housecleaning, repairing basement screens, trimming back out of control bushes, but 20 plus hours this weekend on downed tree in storm two weeks ago. Starting to kill the grass, so many drying leaves. Roof is leaking again. Flea patrol on the pets. Somewhere I had pictures of this tree and olive tree right after they came down. Intended to put up comparison. Exhausted as this day...worked at Mom's as my brother took down an 80ft dead oak...at least she had a crew of family members and brother's friend. Short exhilaration as tree came down. Dented the fender of my brother's truck...but most importantly no-one was hurt! Worked about three hours there before coming home to my own project. Oh but the find today at hardware store! Five gallon bucket of roof sealer for $5.00! Somebody is watching out for me!

Chante

No long poses tonight, but they were all wonderful. Chante has fluidity to her poses that make each one beautiful. Rod attended with me tonight, nice to catch up with his life enroute. Worked diligently and felt accomplished. I should get enough sleep more often. Ended session with Eric Clapton and hmmmm...several people were humming along. Easy relaxed poses, good music and good people.

Saturday's Art Smart

Olivia's projects


Trinity with stained glass and mosaics.


My examples.

Just kept working through the session.

The girls are spreading their wings. Starting with our stained glass rose roundels, we painted fine papers to put behind our cutting projects. Assembling work while expanding on our previous experiences in consecutive projects. Experimenting, gathering knowledge and traveling through time, we are a prolific bunch.