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Daydreams and Window Light @ Way Art Yonder { Finished Journal ❤️ }

Posted in art, Art Journaling, art workshops, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Experiments, Photography, Portfolio of Work, San Diego, sketchbook, Spontaneous Constructs, visual journal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »

I finished my visual journal a week after Roxanne Evans Stout’s beautiful workshop, but left right away to Oaxaca, Mexico ( photos forthcoming 😊). Here are some photos taken outside of Jana Freeman’s fabulous Way Art Yonder workshops (above) , Day 2 of the workshop ( details from Roxanne’s teaching table and my work area with “preparatory piles”) and, finally, my completed journal.

At home, I had to co-opt my kitchen ( I need my studio back 🤪)… but thought this would make a nice tableau, so I’m sharing it here. This is how things looked deep in the night, two Sundays ago..

And finally…c’est fini! My first art journal – and first video posted here on SketchBloom.

All of the lovely journals from the workshop:

A closing plen air celebration at the end of the weekend. Can’t wait for my next (February) art workshop…

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Wrapped in Words

Posted in art, Books, Featured Artists, Poetry, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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Paragraphs of books become a pattern for a one-of-a-kind infinity scarf.
Be still, my heart.

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Work in Progress/Process

Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Experiments, San Diego, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2011| 1 Comment »

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Almost finished with my city of felt.
ArtWalk in Little Italy provided the inspiration and urgency to come back today. Good people and my new San Diego coffee love, Caffe’ Vergnano, provided the energy. Happy May.

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Cities and Abstract Art

Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Graphic Design, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 20, 2011| 1 Comment »

 

Marrakesh. From ‘Domestic Architecture of the Arab Region’.

 

 

 

 

 

From 'Domestic Architecture of the Arab Region"

Digital manipulation. Commissioned artwork.

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Queen Califia’s Magical Garden {Continued}

Posted in art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, San Diego, school, School Work, Tutorial, Watercolor, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 18, 2010| 1 Comment »

Loose Rendering. Ink, watercolor, prismacolor pencils. August 2010.



Lately, I’ve favored the watercolor and pencil technique, but want to get back to working with markers.

I found these two great tutorials on marker renderings from my blog friend and Urban Sketcher extraordinaire Suzanne Cabrera at An [Open] Sketchbook: can’t wait to share them with my students!

{ Tutorial 1: Furniture/Fabric }

{ Tutorial 2: Interior Rendering }

As usual, the wonderful Color Drawing book by Doyle will provide a lifetime’s worth of lessons.


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Working with Color

Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Drawing, Experiments, Graphic Design, NaBloPoMo, San Diego, school, School Work, Tutorial, Watercolor, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2010| 3 Comments »

Marker Test @ Queen Califia's Magical Garden

Initial Sketch. Felt tip on heavy bond (sketchbook) paper.

Felt Tip on Marker (Rag) Paper.

Applying Watercolor 1.

Applying Watercolor 2.

End of ession at site. 20 Minutes. Wanted to have a loose base of color.

Adding Pencils (Albrecht Durer- Made in Germany), texture, few days after.

Do you remember Niki St. Phalle’s ‘Queen Califia’s Magical Garden’?

Well, I went back with my students for some loose watercolor and pencil renderings.

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Kuwaiti Diaries II- Al-M’barakiya

Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Kuwaiti Diaries, Photography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 2, 2010| 4 Comments »

The local ‘Souq’ is called Mubarakiya, named after Mubarak, a leader who was the sheik (‘shehk’, family ruler) from the Al-Sabah family, which is still the ruling family of modern Kuwait. Kuwait combines ancient tradition with a democratic political system (Parliament), and is a melting pot of past and present, as I was able to see in the Mubarakiya.

Kuwait | The Present and The Present

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