Monday, Day #30

 

Knife painting  in one sitting.  Nothing better than feeling good about a painting.  Especially after all the wipers I've made later.  There is actually a failed painting under it which provided some nice texture.  I think I might paint with the knife some more.  I also think I'm going to move to flowers.  My family doesn't eat flowers.

Sunday of interuptions!

  

After cooking 2 pounds of bacon, I thought it would be the perfect subject to paint as we enter this season of love.  We all know that everything is better with bacon and love, itself, can be measured in bacon.  However, all the bacon painting led to on Sunday was frustration.  So, after the painting was turning into poo...I decided to just sort of fill it in as an abstract bacon landscape.  And we have another wiper.  I am feeling aggravated at the lack of time and space that I have been able to devote to my painting and I hope to find a routine that allows me more quality painting time.

Daily Painters of NW Ohio

This week we had the first meeting of the daily painters of NW Ohio. It was a wonderful time meeting some new friends and talking about our art!

Our challenge was to paint a piece that is inspired by another artist's style. After a couple struggles, and a failed Matisse attempt... I started to wipe this with my brush and what do you know, it kind of reminded me of Gerhard Richter. It made me think I'd that is how he came up with his blurred pieces--frustration leading to inspiration?

Success!

Finally...success at the one stroke per color technique!

Up from the grave he arose...

For some reason this hymn popped in my head when posting this picture. It could be because because this poor painting was a victim to the wind and fell into a mud puddle so it has had 3 sessions to completion. It has seriously been resurrected from its challenged life into its current and hopefully permanent glory!

Or maybe it was because I saw paczkis in the grocery store today.

Oy vey!

 

Ok, so.  I attempted to do the one stroke per color challenge to slow myself down and also to paint thicker.  It seems if I'm not working in this matter I just go back to my thin painting ways. I started off okay, but then I knew that I was running out of time so I tried to fudge it a little bit, then I got frustrated and angry and now the apple looks like poo.  A big, messy, blocky, poopy, poo. But otherwise I think the painting is okay.

New Art and DESIGN-Day 21

Well, I am not the best with the Graphic Design stuff, but I am working on it.  Saturday, Day 21, my artistic adventure for the day was creating a banner for my etsy shop and a watermark for my pieces.  I sure am glad I didn't set myself up for failure by comitting to painting everyday, because it just isn't happening!  I'm hoping maybe at the end of the semeseter I can try to do 30 paintings in 30 days!  AHHH...So, you can check out my etsy shop and view my art in action!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ErikaClarkART
or use the link to the right

 you can also purchase this card on the etsy site as well!

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