as the time gets nearer--- weirder art is being made........this martian will be for sale at artfest.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
boatload of techniques workshop
thursday-week at artfest! port townsend, washington.
learn new techniques.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
temple grandin - surprisingly great book.....
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
oversaturated polaroid look......
this is of my brother danny - he was feeling pretty strong to be able to haul this giant watermelon from the car to the kitchen. 1957.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
ARTFEST 2011 ........
i'm teaching two workshops at artfest 2011 retreat this year. Thursday April 7 -Boatload of Techniques (3 seats available)
Saturday April 9 - Oversaturated Polaroid Look - FULL
In Boatload of Techniques, i teach many techniques, including paintover and oversaturated polaroid look and about 8 other techniques that are fun, easy and creation mind expanding.
INFO:
Port Townsend
Fort Warden
Washington State
see you there.
Friday, March 18, 2011
fond memory
what a good looking boy, too.
my childhood..
the red china marker lines were my dad's way of editing a picture to go to press.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
abstracts......
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
abstracts......
and another....this one has a duck pond in the upper left.
ok and a couple of marshmallows.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
BLOG TOUR......."Art at the Speed of Life"
WELCOME!!!
(painting of my daughter Rosie, age 6)
I am so honored to be in this book by Pam Carriker. Maybe I should say it this way, this is the first I have been invited to be in someone’s book and what an honor for it to be this one by Pam.
I have to say that this book is full of fun and unique angles on ways to get art done.
First, I found common ground with many of the book's artists. For instance, I could completely relate to Julie Bergman’s inspiration coming tenfold when she is pinched for time and nothing at all when there is plenty of time. so true.
I love that Cate Coulacos Prato put a name to that overstimulated artist’s condition (sometimes people refer to it as flightiness) as AADD--- Artist Attention Diversion Disorder. You plan to settle into a project only to be derailed by the glint of an exciting new product.
I related completely to Suzan Buckner’s other way around version of Art at the Speed of Life - her's is fitting life into her world of art making. She insists you should give yourself permission to do what you are truly drawn to do. awesome.
I wholly agree with Suzi Blu’s insight- Your passion is what makes you an artist, not your schooling. Christy Hydeck’s says the act of creating, the process of doing it, can be transformational. She is living proof of that.
So many more stories I loved - Nancy Lefko's deadline guilt. I get that too. Lisa Kettel's multifaceted muse.....interesting. Almost as interesting and intriguing as Sharon Tomlison doing art at her desk. That was great. and Jodi Ohl directs us on marketing.
Paulette Insall clarifies what proper online protocol should be.
I am like Sue Pelletier - she finds inspiration comes from a moment in time or memory. Laurie Blau-Marshall drags herself from a creativity block by reading art blogs.
Beyond identifying with the words and styles of these artists, I found so any new and fun techniques to try that I had never thought of before. Pam comes up with a ton of them: using liquid pencil, hand sanitizer and transparency blanks for image transferring, her own recipe for busy beeswax, using gesso as a resist, and I love her wigform and plaster strips for a 3 -d self portrait.
Brandie Butcher-Isley has this recipe for a drip method I can’t wait to try. And ooo-la-la the many layers Seth Apter uses intrigues me.
I love this book, can you tell?
There are so many inspiring articles and methods and of course they are all doable at the speed of life.
THE ART AT THE SPEED OF LIFE BLOG TOUR
3/15
The Art of Julie Bergmann
I also want to thank Jaime Guthais and the Interweave team for supporting this blog tour.
lisa bebi's art blog: BLOG TOUR......."art at the speed of life"
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
i can't make myself stop.........
i must have painted over 30 this week.
this one has a little sketch my daughter did when she was in kindergarten. i liked it. so i went with it.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
abstracts....i have always wanted to do this........
its still a work in progress, of course. but i like whats happening already. these are 8" x 10" on stretched canvas. collage and acrylic.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
the new hippy den.....my studio
ok it needs a bit of tidying up but here it is the Hippy Den studio - its too big to photo in one shot - you will have to image it all put together. this is behind my art station which is in the middle of the room.
to the side is the library (i'm straightening this up tomorrow)
another view frommiddle of the room.
the filming portion of the studio.
the other side of the studio has a nap attack station.it's still a work in progress.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
BLOG TOUR......."art at the speed of life"
join the "Art at the Speed of Life blog tour. starts today 3/1 with a giveaway at jenny's blog crescendoh at http://jennydoh.typepad.com
the rest of the tour is as follows:
THE ART AT THE SPEED OF LIFE BLOG TOUR
3/15
The Art of Julie Bergmann
I also want to thank Jaime Guthais and the Interweave team for supporting this blog tour.
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