Playing With Color

Playing with Color.

Creative License Fugitives

Where to begin? Firstly, I am reading Danny Gregory's Creative License. This crazy man believes he can teach me to draw! Here you can see that I am still stuck in flat imageland, where I cannot draw a dimensional object. I am going to start doing exercises from his book to see if I can train my eye to SEE stuff! I love his book, it's sooooo inspirational. His blog is awesome too. Secondly, I ordered some new moleskine sketchbooks --they now have them with watercolor paper in them--heaven! Finally, I just discovered these colorful delights called Dr. Ph. Martin's Radiant Concentrated Watercolors and ordered too many colors. The thing is that they were made just for me because they could not be more saturated. The information says that the colors are "fugitive" when exposed to sunlight, so they are reserved for my journals. I don't want to have to hire a bounty hunter to track them down later! I am in love with them...more photos of that delicious stuff later.

Urban Cactus

I've been making trips to Ann Arbor with my daughter for doctor visits. We sneak into Zingerman's Deli for a little happiness. Across the street we found this "urban cactus." Is it conceivable that this many posters were stapled to this utility pole?

Guess Who's Back?

I have made a TON of art the last few months, but none of it can I share. Look for something resembling a BOOK next fall. Whew! For now, just so's ya know I'm still alive and kicking, here's a smidge from some spiral notebooks I'm filling. Here I took a color and black and white copy of the same photo and glued them to a page, then began doodling around them.