On-Line Class: Color Theory

If you are serious about learning color, how it behaves, 

how it interacts with other colors:

I highly recommend this course with the fabulously talented
Judy Coates Perez

Color Theory
9 weeks, on-line, $60.00

It is a basic, beginners course.
It is technical yet very clearly presented and well written.
I've read through the entire course and promise that if you actually
DO THE WORK that you will come away with a much clearer understanding of color interactions.

Here is how Judy describes the course:

Did you know the color choices you make can transform an average piece of artwork into something spectacular? Be surprised and delighted by the effects and illusions you can create by understanding the mysteries of color. In this hands-on experiential class you'll learn key color concepts with visual examples, mix new paint colors, and create helpful charts, all providing you with the tools you’ll need to see color in a whole new light. 

As part of this class you will start a color journal and learn to mix color using textile paints, creating charts to address the different color theory principles.

Lessons include:

The color wheel

Color Schemes

Tints, Shades and Tones

Value Color Studies

Complimentary Color

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The class website is designed for students to work at their own pace with each lesson accessible at any time. The lessons include color diagrams and examples with explanations of the different principles for working with color. After each lesson you will blend colors and paint swatches of color to make a chart to fully understand each weeks lesson.

Head right over HERE to sign up.

You won't regret it.

2011 Resolutions

Last week I posted my reverse resolutions for 2010

I'm going to be brave and post my resolutions for 2011 as well

1-Begin each day with a Prayer of Gratitude

2-Practice Discipline

That's it.

A freight train can be moved in a different direction by pulling a simple switch. 

Over time, great canyons can be carved into solid rock with a trickle of water. 

Small actions can create big results. 

(I got to DRIVE this freight train in Kamiah Idaho!)

Do you have any short and/or long term goals?
Can they be distilled into a simple word or a phrase?

I'd love to hear about them.

Faces on Friday

Week Two of my 365 Faces 2011 goal

I wonder how long it will take before my drawings look like the person I'm drawing?

Above and below are the same two kidlets.

Length and width are something I need to work on.

 Some of my kidlets are even asking if it's their turn to be drawn each evening.

Mr. Almost Perfect looks serious in the sketch - but will NOT stop making funny faces.

My little pixie friend thought it was great fun - she really does look like a baby doll.

Neighbors and unsuspecting strangers are fair game.

These profiles actually look quite similar to the actual subjects - ah - progress!

 And yes, I can't count. I'm still enthusiastic and some nights draw more than one.

 I did spend moments here and there this week making a sweet little box to put the 3x5 cards in.

You could make one too by following Jane's tutorial here.

For Your Inspiration: Wickedly Wild Flora at the Sonoran Desert Museum

 

I love this desert.

I can't help but thinking that perhaps Dr. Seuss might have loved it too.

 

Still. I think I'm glad not to live where every green thing wants to bite you. Ouch.

Collages for ONE Fundraiser

I am so honored to have been invited to participate in Virginia Spiegel's

fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. She is someone who has most certainly made the world a better place and has made it easier for many people to serve in some small way as well.

FLY: BRAZEN

One Cause - The Fight Against Cancer

One Wednesday - February 16, 2011

One Hundred Collages

FLY: HEADLONG

These are two of the collages that I'm donating for the auction.

They are collaged sheet music and layered paint and screen printing.

Headlong has a little bit of organza thrown in as well.

Each will be mounted onto a 10" x 8" sheet of 140lb watercolor paper ready to frame.

2010: Reverse Resolutions

I've been joining my sweet sister Amberlyn for the past several years in posting my

Reverse Resolutions

We look back over the past year to see what we've accomplished then write out each accomplishment as though it were a goal we had written last January. It's nice to look and see what we've accomplished.

2010 Reverse Resolutions
Be a passably good mother and wife (hi hubby and kidlets!)

Make enough art for a Solo Show (Tues 11th - gallery walk!)

Build my blog readership (hello friends!)
Drastically cut back my sugar intake and lose 30lbs
Get my Etsy shop up and running

Schedule 2011 teaching events in advance
Book Alyson Stanfield to come teach an Art Marketing Workshop next May in Raleigh

Tutorial: How to Draw a Face

Drawing the human figure is difficult. 

But it CAN be done.

A good beginning is to learn about proportions.

I was surprised to learn that drawing a face can be like learning math.

It takes work but it CAN be done.

(shall I repeat myself again?)

I said, it CAN be done!