New Beginnings - Art class

Beginning a new virtual art class this week with Laure Ferlita. She is such a good teacher and her video demos are wonderful. It would be fun to take a class in person with her. Maybe next fall when she takes a group to Paris. It's always fun to start something new.

Our first assignment was to create the first page of our journals by placing an image on the page leaving about 60% of the page white. The photo on the right is the reference photo that I took last spring of daffodils from my yard. I think it's a pretty good likeness. ;-)

Lost and found

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton

This is another assignment from Laure Ferlita's class.  She is such a wonderful teacher. I hope I can take her class in person.  I found the quote on another cyber mate's blog and thought it was very fitting for me. Ironically her name is Claire also.

Indian Summer

We are experiencing a wonderful Indian Summer here in west Michigan. When I returned from my Trek in Europe the weather was pretty usual for Sept.  Rainy, dreary, just plan ugly then last Monday we hit a warm streak and it has been wonderful.  Unfortunately I can't seem to get a lot done inside. (as is demonstrated by a weeking passing since I have found time to post)

My art class is going nicely and I do see some improvement in my work. In this piece we were working on purposefully creating a border for our work. I decided to use some pieces that I found while walking the Boyz.  I think it worked out pretty well.

Reconnection

 Met with my hiking buddies yesterday. I can't believe it's already been 2 weeks since I returned home. I've been incredibly busy but can't for the life of me figure out doing what exactly! Maggie and I took a hike to Mt. Baldy yesterday but it was nothing like our training hikes nor our actually hiking but it was good to reconnect. We then met Annie and Dave for a little wine, beer, cheese and bread to share pictures. It was wonderful to 'relive' our adventure.

My art class is coming along nicely and I am really enjoying it. The is the 4th assignment. Had to do some corrections. The top picture is my first try and then with a few suggestions from Laure the bottom is the second try.

Again this is the 5 assignment and I needed to do a few revisions. Note the shadow. I made the first one opaque and shadows usually are transparent unless very dark. Also putting a light red wash over the letters helped them show up more.