an art journal of an expressionistic spirit
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My earliest memory is finger painting and making a mess! I’ve loved art every day of my life.
I still like to make a mess!
Here I am stamping with an eraser. It’s Corita Kent, James Victore, EttaVee, Shantell Martin…who opened my spirit to an art that has me understanding, this has always be me. I am an artist!
I’ve been going through all of my art and penciling in projects. Beginning next week I will start using these prompts to share my roses project. Is it next week?
Siempre,
Mireya
I wrote this post a week ago and somehow it stayed in draft. Finally here we are.
It’s the holiday season. We are about to begin winter. I can’t wait for spring. Last week I wrote about my obsession with roses. Have these lovely shades of pink always been there? Have they? I could be walking along in thought and suddenly I stop. Pink and peach roses catch my eye.
My next project should be pink roses? I could work on creating pink tones. Ettavee wrote this wonderful post on how to use fluorescent pink. I have been working on painting roses. I have! I am working on the layout and working on flower arrangements. Yes, I can use my art journal for this exploration. Pink Roses is a good book title? Ok there we have it. Pink Roses it is!
I love the pinks in these blooms.
Siempre,
Mireya
I was about ready to throw this out. I kept layering the background and suddenly I have the moon and the stars. The moon and the stars, flowers, everything in nature speaks of truth.
I like painting these flowers. I want a book filled with them. Each bloom will have positive thoughts. It’s obvious, how much we need positive thoughts. Yes, these blooms are my next book project.
Here’s the first one.
And the inspiring Anthropologie window display that started it all.
I just now see, that’s me, my shadow. What a wonderful artist. We all are.
Wow! I love the color and the stamp texture. I need to find more objects to stamp with. There’s this artist on Instagram. She stamps with all kinds of objects. I love love my candle lid. It’s rusting because I wash it after use. Oh, stamping wth a doile pattern would be fun.
This design did take some time. This was version two. What a version! I’m giggling. I’m smiling. My acrylic set is limited. I’m mixing all of the colors myself. Looking good. By the way this design was inspired by a window display at Anthropologie. Do I still have the image?
I do!
My pages were ripped out of an old agenda. I should write a book filled with paper book flowers. Each page has a thought, a poem, or laughable words. I may have to now. I do. I will. I have plenty of journal pages left. I’m excited about all the new ideas to come. This flower will be great for the collage course.
Siempre,
Mireya
Good lesson in color. I painted a first version and that didn’t work. The neutral tones are beautiful. Some of the petal patterns work. Others I could do over. Not to happy about the brown dots either.
Oh, but I’m happy that I was able to paint. I mixed color and moved from one idea to the next. Sure I thought of the beauties I see on my walks but I was simply painting with no particular place to go. I was painting like Carrie Schmitt at the painting party. It felt good to squeeze the paint on the plate and mix colors. The leaves are beautiful but feels like they need a little more life.
No, these blooms aren’t going in the shop but I painted them. This is the beginning of many more blooms to paint.
That’s all. Roll up your sleeves. Get out the paint. Mix some tones and paint.
A few of my favorites
I had these flowers in the love the color and petals but not a good bloom pile. The file was on my computer and in a redo file. The color is beautiful. Seems like color is a constant in all of my work. What was wrong with these in the first place? Maybe it was because the idea was quick to produce. I’m adding these flowers to my shop. These flowers are my process and a reminder to always have a faith in my work. Do I still have the actual artwork? I could paint a textured background. Even if I don’t have the actual blooms, I have the brush! I suppose it’s important to ask why I’m rejecting my work. Wait I’ve seen this quote someplace:
Make now. Question later.
You see that is a true artist. Though I may not be physically painting, I am painting in spirit, in my imagination! Art is always on my mind, in my heart.
With love,
Mireya
Simple tools. It works. I haven’t painted much these days. Today I finally doodled with some pens. It was like, ah everything is suddenly right again. It felt like the breeze.
It’s been breezy and there’s nothing like a breeze. It’s fresh, free and nature! It’s almost like painting or drawing.
I need more of just watching the breeze. Suddenly I am thinking about all of my thoughts. It’s so important to take care of your mind.
Art helps you do that. I’m still working on a summer reading list. Oh and there’s a few new tools I want to test out. Oh and paint a few trees.
I guess I now have my weekly to-do list.
Tomorrow I’ll finish this flower but yes, I love Eric Carle’s simplicity. He just paints and it’s beautiful.
I like my work too.
Collage has taught me to have patience and trust the process. It could take about two hours to work on a piece. You let your eyes do the arranging. Maybe collage can help me be a better painter.
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