I hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful weather. I am in the process of finishing a couple of art projects, then I will be packing all my supplies up and moving over to my cottage. The following 'masterpieces' were completed by some of the girls in our spring art sessions - this time there is quite a variety - pen & ink with oil rouging, coloured pencils and acrylics.
This is a coloured pencil piece done by Sue on 11x14 mi-teintes paper. I do not know who the original artist was. Sue has a wonderful talent for just working away on things with absolutely no pattern or instructions. Such was the case with this project. Sue just jumped in and coloured pencils started flying out of her case. The colours in the picture turned out wonderful.
This piece was done by Monique on a 11x14 wood plaque and is called 'Snowy Trails'. It was done using pen & ink with oil rouging and was designed by Mary Owens. This particular piece has been very popular over the last few years. All the background trees and the evergreen in the foreground are done using a fan brush, and it only takes minutes to complete them all. The white 'snow' is simply the white canvas showing through, and the snow on the tree is just dabbed on with white acrylic. It is a fun piece to do, and I think Monique did a great job.
I love these flowers. Nancy did the projects with acrylic paint on large (maybe 20 x 20) canvas, and they were just so 'in your face' paintings. They were so bright, colourful and bold - most of the pieces done in our art session are much more subdued, so it was wonderful to have these big, bold pictures! I don't know who the original artist was. Great job.
Renee designed this piece - her daughter asked for a pen & ink piece with a dragonfly, frog, fence, etc., so Renee looked through a number of books, found all the things requested, and placed them in a picture. I think Renee enjoyed doing the piece, but, when she was done she did state that she was going to stick to patterns for the next while! I think the project turned out very well for an original design!
This colourful piece was done by Ginette. The original design was by Shirley Koenig, and can be found in her book titled 'Country's Edge'. Shirley's instructions are either acrylics or oils, but Ginette converted everything to pen & ink with oils. In the original project (by S. Koenig) the background was quite dark, and Ginette wanted hers to be dark also (if you have worked with the pen & ink with oil rouging technique, you know that most backgrounds are simply white with splashes of colour matching those in the picture). So, Ginette experimented with the oils and came up with this wonderful mottled background. It looks great!Thats it for now - I still have a few pictures done by the girls in our art sessions, and I will post them soon. In the meantime, I have completed a couple of pen & ink projects that I will post in a few weeks. And, I have lined up several interesting projects (I am going to try working with texture, and also some silhouette pieces) that I will be working on at my cottage over the summer. So, in September I should have some new (and hopefully different) projects ready to post.
Our fall art sessions will be starting in late September, and I will post further information about that at the end of the summer.
Thank you for visiting my blog, and I hope everyone has a great summer.
Joan
