{"id":37519,"date":"2014-07-29T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37519"},"modified":"2021-05-03T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T00:25:51","slug":"update-from-the-art-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/update-from-the-art-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from the art studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been spending my leisure time painting this week and sharing my updates on Facebook. It all began as I was organizing the supply closet and pulled out an acrylic painting I’d begun several years ago.\u00a0 A car accident whacked my paws and halted the project in 2000 and I never got back to it. I had the idea to pull out my acrylic paints and finish it up.\u00a0 That led to<\/span> my former dining room becoming the art studio<\/a> and the igniting of my renewed interest in painting.\u00a0 While I had a supply of good acrylic paints, I was missing a selection of portraiture hues, so I bought a set remarkably cheap online.\u00a0 It was a set of 48 Liquitex Basic acrylics.\u00a0 I had a few canvasses but Michael’s had a sale, so I bought a dozen more. Ok, maybe I got a little carried away. My mission had been to do whatever was necessary so I could finish the faces in the one acrylic painting. Now I’ve got a dozen canvases to fill and new paints to do it with. And here I’d been wanting to play in watercolors…\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

When the creative impulse flows, I follow it and I was happy to be painting again.\u00a0 I fell into familiar routines and time at the easel sped by.\u00a0 I have 3 easels set up, since in acrylics I wait for paint to dry. I went though old sketch books and pulled out items I wanted to paint, and I posted the evolution of them on Facebook. I’d take photos at each stage.\u00a0 Then I discovered I could take the photograph of a painting into Photoshop and I could finish the painting electronically.\u00a0 Wow! My world just changed!\u00a0 Ok, maybe graphic artists everywhere have known that for decades but I was just discovering it. I’m self taught; I have no formal training in art or graphics or for that matter, writing and publishing. So sometimes I reinvent the wheel until I happen upon the better way.<\/span><\/p>\n

I begin each painting or sketch with an idea in mind but it soon begins morphing from one idea to the next.\u00a0 I go with the flow. I take pics during the process because I like to be reminded of the transformation.\u00a0 It’s been years since I’ve painted with acrylics, so I’m not as fluid and subtle as I like with the brush yet.\u00a0 It’ll come back.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love that YouTube is filled with drawing and painting tutorials and I’ve been studying everything I wanted to study in art school: light, perspective, shading in folds, hands, feet, ears, portraiture and proportion.\u00a0 The bff has an old edition of The Cartoonist’s Workbook by Robin Hall and it gave me a better understanding of how to draw hands. Mine now are either drawn gigantic or look like animal paws. Which is fine with me. I would never have picked up a cartooning book had he not handed it to me. What a cool wealth of info for my art practice! I heart the bf, he’s one tuned in cat and full of helpful info.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perfect end to the art update, I just received in today’s mail my copy of Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery: Solutions for drawing the clothed figure by Burne Hogarth, as well as Faith Nolton’s Gardens of the Soul: Making sacred and shamanic art.\u00a0 Ah, the new dilemma: read first, or paint?<\/span><\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0 I begin painting from out of body, astral flight sketches<\/a>
\nDoing a series of paintings as a form of shamanic soul retrieval<\/a>
\n<\/a>Painting is a daily meditation for me<\/a>
\nPainting as a method of altering consciousness<\/a>
\nIntroducing Junelle, with open hands to take your pain away<\/a>
\nIntroducing Moon Gal with Raven<\/a>
\nIntroducing Rosa of the Aqua Eye<\/a>
\nEvolution of Ganesh with Bass<\/a>
\nEvolution of Pele<\/a><\/p>\n

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