Before! The sepia ink was just too dark.
After!
I didn’t like the darkness of the sepia so hit it with some gesso and then went back in with charcoal, pastels, and graphite. Patrons can get a closer look over at my Patreon page.
Day 5 Studio Clean Up.
I didn’t get much done clean up wise in my studio, the past four days due to my asthma flaring up and pretty bad. I made the mistake in going out in the extreme cold (6F with a -12F) without my Vogmask. See that 6F was a whole lot warmer than the previous day when it was -23F and that wasn’t the windchill.
So I spent the past few days enjoying my favorite magazines, let there be turquoise, and reading cookbooks.
I’m taking an online class over that the Jeanne Oliver Network studying Impressionist Berthe Morisot and I seem to have forgotten how to draw. So back to the table to practice, practice, practice.
I’m back to using my pan pastels again, love them just don’t love having them strewn out all over my work surface. I need a storage system/container for these little beasts.
Too Cheerful
Well I've been working on my series At the Marsh and somehow this bright and cheerful piece came out of the end of my brush.
It's too cheerful for my current series, which is more somber in tone, so I'm setting it aside to be stitched later. In the meantime I have gobs of stitching to do in anticipation of two solo shows I'm hanging the first week of January.
So Excited!
At the Marsh No.'s 1 & 2 where accepted into Iowa Crafts: 43 at the MacNider in Mason City, Iowa!
The show will be on exhibit from November 3rd, 2017 until January 9th, 2018.