Category: Mixed Media

Day 275 – Rick Misbehaving

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I started drawing Rick when my son and I were binge watching Walking Dead. 

  

It was the episode that they are arriving in Alexandria  and he was sitting still being interviewed. So I thought draw Rick!! 

OOPPPPSSS 

Of course as soon as I started to draw him he was done and the next interview began.  I kept trying to draw him. Oh what a mess he was. Just a little off here and there.  

This started out as an ink sketch. I didn’t like that at all so I added some caran d’ache like it was pastels. Scribbling it here and there. Adding odd ball colors like yellows,  red, light blue, and light purple. 

There are lots of things I liked about him and some not so much. I rewound and paused.  Slapped some flesh gouache to straighten out the hair line, erase bags, lengthen the cheek, sort the nose and hmm what else? Widen the brow, and get rid of a few stray ink marks. 

After the flesh colored gouache dried I added the same colors back again. Added some more black ink. I think I need to fix his neck. But otherwise he’s done. 

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Day 272 My Bayeux Tapestry Part 2

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the last panels of the book. Actually the first ones that I did. 

  

270 inches long  Moleskine accordion 3.5×5″

  

This section was drawn at the Evans Towne Center Park and the dog park there. I love the walkers swinging their Arms and leaning forward. The people with their dogs are also a favorite. Bicycle guy rice by twice before I decided to draw him. And of course he never came back after I started him. Oops!

  

An overlap. Some of this was drawn in the Earthfare parking lot while I waited for my friend to carpool to life sketching at USC Aiken. He rest was drawn at the Inner Bean. 

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Day 262- and Some Art Before Lunch 

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Art before lunch. Very fast sketch from a distance. Think I was more into drawing the fountain than the couple who were having the best conversation outside at the inner bean while smoking and enjoying the weather.

  

This was drawn with my Pentel brush pen. Lettering was done with my Lamy Vista fine nib. The painting was done mostly with watercolor and with some gouache. 

I had a lot of trouble painting the flesh tones. The best thing I finally discovered while painting this was how to make flesh  using gouache. I tried the way I mix it with watercolor. Light yellow and a clear red. Not good when combined with white.

Then I tried white with a tiny bit of English red and bingo. Great flesh color!! Who knew?! I painted the skin before I went to book club and while I was there I studied the other ladies’ skin tones. Studying always helps. Then I came home and repainted them. Thank goodness. 

Random success!👏I have to say I think the girl is a little skinny and the arm too short but oh well. It’s done and I am turning the page!! 

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Day 250 – A Painted Collage  

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Our art group took a paper collage class from the very talented Virginia Bojanowski. I painted one of my favorite subjects my sweet dog Zoe. 



Zoe 
5″x7″

Made from painted scraps of paper and old book paper. 

The following is a short version of how it was made. Of course Ginnie had bags of already painted stamped paper pieces that we could use to collage with or we would have been there for days!!  You could substitute any appropriately colored paper for the painted paper we used. 



First we drew our subject on the canvas. Usually a piece of 1/2″ or 3/4″ plywood is used for this but for expediency sake we used a canvas. 

Next we painted the background color.   After it was dry we stamped over it with a stamp. I used a marble texture stamp. 





Then we painted our subject in blocky colors. 



Last using  gel medium  we glued down many pieces of paper starting with the bottom layer to the top aka from her chest to scarf to ears, to dark side of head, to eyes, eyebrows, nose trying to get a 3 d effect.  Difficult to do on such a tiny piece of canvas ripping even tinier bits of paper. 

In Art 130 at UGA we had to copy an Old Master print assigned to us by our teacher. I got an A+ but my rooms floor  was littered with piles of pieces of Life magazine photos trying to match the exact colors. My poor roommate. 

Art 130 was a Josef Albers color theory class, a fascinating class and my favorite that year. 

Let us know if you want your favorite animal done!!

Anyway thanks for looking!!!