Quote: "You can't use up Creativity. The more you use, the more you have". Maya Angelow


Quiz:
What is the technique called where painting is applied in a thick, textured way, with the marks made by the brush or palette knife remaining visible, such as in the work of Vincent van Gogh? (Yea...Karen, for the correct answer).
Answer: Impasto.  

Artwork: Some more beautiful artwork by my artist/students. Thank you.
Karen:
                  Look at that depth !!!!...(watercolor).

Bonnie:
             Great.     

Student Art:

Karen:

Karen has been in my classes for many years. She was already into the arts and her Mother was an artist...but I have seen some amazing steps that Karen has been taking. She has become fearless, experimental and a positive influence to the rest of the class. Below is another one of her beautiful watercolor paintings.

Thank you !!!

My Intermediate artist/students  are experimenting beyond the safe and comfortable painting stages...you know how hard that is to test oneself to think of going that path, let alone actually going beyond the thinking to doing?

Colette: Geraniums. How beautiful. She is an excellent painter and now she has pushed
                      her comfort zone...and still is an excellent painter.

Thank you, Colette, for sharing your great watercolor painting.      

Blog Views: USA, Russia & Sweden.    

Note: I welcome all comments or e-mails...from you International viewers too (I can even translate your message). Anyone from anywhere working in any media may be a part of this blog.

Views: This week so far...US and Sweden. 

Art Challenge: Yesterday, the college Intermediate Art Class had its first day of the term. We had fun viewing the great artwork done during the summer break and done to meet the Art Challenge. About half of the students did the challenge, but we were treated to a full gallery of super paintings. I will  for the next few days,  spotlight a different artist/student and their art challenge projects.

I have to say, the artists put in a lot of time and effort in meeting this challenge and did wonderfully. I was a proud Momma Teacher !!  I only wish I could have taken photos of all the artwork. Please check back.

The order the artists are presented is random...I picked their names out of a hat.

Colette Fleck: For her Art Challenge, Colette choose flowers. I thought that was a great way to take full advantage of the summer bounty.  She had many paintings in both watercolor and acrylic. Below are just a few.

Colette, Thank You for sharing.
There will be another art challenge artist posted tomorrow.

New Art Challenge: 
"Balance".....no limits to what you decide on...you can stack objects, things, colors etc as your subject....with their balance about ready to tumble. Any media.
(Just suggestions:...coffee cups off balance about ready to tumble, books, balls etc).
The class will show their work on Oct 16th.
Put those thinking caps on.

Artist Links: Check out the artist web site links at the right in the sidebar.
Viewer Contribution: 
Barbara Giller, one of my students...yea!...is sharing her painting below. Love getting the painting and the reference photo. Glad you took a break from your garden to paint...Nice.

She said: So I have had enough of my garden for a few days and did a painting....

attached is picture of and H2O painting of one of my sunflowers.

Hope to see you in the fall class.... if I can get my schedule situated.

See you soon
Barbara  

I love this quote that Barbara has attached to her e-mail...

Be the kind of woman when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~  "Oh Crap, She's up!"

Blog Hits: 352....This week hits came from...USA, Russia and Germany.

Quote: "Tell me, what is your plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
                     ...Mary Oliver, poet.

Contributions: It seems that you are a little timid in posting your work. I understand, but maybe you ought to pull out that camera, take some photos of your work and e-mail them to me....you have but one wild and  precious life !!!

Viewer's Contribution:
Stephanie is sharing her acrylic paintings. She is one of my students...if you can call her that ! Thank you for sharing...they are all great.

 She is doing self-portraits and portraits of her husband as her art challenge. 

Art Challenge: How are you doing? How about a few comments or sharing? Wet our appetites a little? Running out of time?... join the club...but try and keep at it, you will be glad you did.

Have a great day.