This summer has proved to have a lot of down time for me since I have been unable to find anyone who wants to hire me for just the summer. So with my new found down time I have been reading. Some of what I am reading I have read
Today I planned in spending with my sister Cristal and my nephew Josh. We
were just hang out at the house and enjoy each others company but Cristal's
husband decided that we should go to the beach. I was stocked because I haven't been able to get to the beach since I've been back in Cali. We only spent a short amount of time on the beach but it was great seeing Josh love the water and seeing my sister so happy. Though the best part of the trip to the beach was going to the restaurant at Paradise Cove and getting the best calamari I have ever had. It was a really great day.
I just wanted to give a little thank you to the casher at Ralph's today. Here is my story: I went to the library today to pick up a book I had ordered. As I was driving back the heat of the day was really getting to me and as I passed the Ralph's grocery store I decided I would stop and get some ice cream. I had my mind fixed on getting the Haagen-Dazs mango sorbet because it is refreshing and delicious. And to my delight they had it, but right next to it there was a special green tea flavor and I love green tea ice cream. Now I had a big dilemma, especially because they were marked 2 for $6 if I had a member card, but I don't. I decided I didn't care and I would just pay full price for both of them. I went to a cashier who didn't have a line and look particularly bored, probably regretting the fact he had to work this tedious job all summer. He rang me up and asked for my membership card and I said I didn't have one. Without saying a word he gave me the discount and my change, putting a big smile on my face. So thank you cashier man, you made my day!
I had large gloobs of paint left on my palette and I knew I wasn't going to be working on any other paintings and that I would be packing everything up so I found some left over canvas pad pieces and mixed the paint with lots of liquin (to make it dry fast) and created two little paintings. This was different for me since I generally plan my paintings excessively and work on them with multiple layers and details. I liked the spontaneousness of these paintings, but I don't think I could do it that often; I still prefer to plan.
finished
I designed this yesterday in class, drew it in the afternoon, and finished during Lost (actually, during the commercials between Lost). I think I will leave it with just the sharp lines, but again there is a small chance that there will be a tint added to it in the fall, but for now it is complete. And just so you know: it is all one coil which makes me happy.
finished
finished
started and finished because I have decided to leave it just drawn, though there is a slight possibility that the outside negative space may be painted a solid color
one more that should be done today and then one more to start and the project will be complete
Sunday was the first really beautiful day of Mayterm and we decided that it would be a sin to stay inside to do our homework so we drove around to find some lovely patch of earth to relax in. We found a large beautiful field with some really tall grass which hide us as we laid down on our blankets. We did get a little work done, but napping was much nicer. I did get a little pink on my shoulders since they haven't seen the sun in months, but that was nothing compared to my red-head friend, she's crispy now.
I finished my second interlacing. This one gave me some challenges with the very straight edges that really needed to be crisp because of the contrasting coil that would interlace through it in the end. Once I got all the edges crisp with the acrylic paint I was able to use oil paint to put in the shadows where the coil intersects itself. Then I drew in the new organic coil and finally decided to painting it teal. I wasn't sure what color I wanted to make it so when I was going through my colors trying to find an opaque color (so that I would only have to paint to coil in one layer) I found this teal that I had never used before, and since it is my favorite color I decided to use it (I'm not sure how I went all this time without painting with my favorite color, though I do think there will be more paintings with this color in the future.
I also finished this, my third interlacing. I wasn't sure about keeping it this split pea green, but the more I worked with is I realized that I really liked it. I did decided to keep it more simple and left out any shading, giving the definition in the intersections by adding a pencil out line. The very last layer was just an oil green glaze that I just put around the boarder to make it stand out.
This is not done yet, but almost. This is the one that I had wanted to make red, but got frustrated with pink and decided to make it grey-black-and-white. I got to the grey but I needed to white wash the design (that's the first picture) to get rid of the pink that was still showing through. I was getting ready to paint it black when I found that my Prussian blue was very dark, almost black, and I thought that would be much more interesting than just black. But then I had a new problem in that grey would look awful with the blue but I had already done a blue interlacing and didn't want two. While have this dilemma I found that I had a red that didn't turn pink when glazed over white. I put this over the whole design which mixed with the blue to make a rich purplish black. Now I am working on putting in shadows.
These two got the backgrounds finished with a layer of oil paint. I like the way they turned out because I decided to not make a solid color backgrounds but ones that have a slight variation. The yellow one starts almost white in the center and then fades out to bright yellow on the edges. The orange one starts in the center with a very red-orange and fades to having a very yellow-orange on the edges. Now all I have to go over the coils with an oil layer and these will be done too. But I still need two more for the whole project.
We get really bored here during Mayterm, so one night we realized that there was an unusual amount of picnic tables. Because of this we thought we would rearrange them in an artistic way. Thus we made tunnels / archways with the tables. They were masterpieces, but sadly were taken down by lunch time the next day.
this wasn't a full layer but I did put in the detail on the wing and I am very happy with it
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Cameo said:
that was exactly what I was thinking when we were pressing down the grass, I felt like a little kid... read more
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Sunshine said:
[this is good]very cute picture! Remember laying in the grass like that when we were little. I love soft tall grass. read more
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You could have used Dawns phone number that's what i do at Ralph's. Works every time! hehe! read more
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