Creative This & Thats

This page is dedicated to  creative fun experimenting with color and line and ...

To all my fiends at   Off the Wall Fridays http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/ , 

and 

Creative Every Day   https://creativeeveryday.com/ 



 

 

 

 

 Thank you for sharing your inspiring artwork!

 

 I am intrigued about creating Maps of life steps, special times and memories of places and people.  This one is about where I fit and where I don't.

Playing with paper and fabric:

 

Growth and confidence with watercolor and ink sketching is a focus for me right now.  And I have to tell you about the wonderful online classes Cathy Johnson offers!  Cathy (aka Kate) is a fabulous artist and an excellent, positive, inspiring teacher.  Not many like her around. 

Take a look at Cathy's new Artist's Journal Workshop at: http://www.cathyjohnson.info/journalminiclass.html.  Cathy also has a wonderful Facebook groups - see:  Artist's Journal Workshop and Nature Artists.  And don't miss her websites:  http://artistsjournalworkshop.blogspot.com/   and http://naturesketchers.blogspot.com/



Catch the energy created by the diagonals!  I have received wonderful instruction for artistic design and for textiles in particular from Elizabeth Barton.  Inspired to Design is her excellent book and she is just wrapping up an online course by the same name through Academy of Quilting.  My main subject for the class was a yellow cottage I had photographed on the coast of Southern California.  I really like what happened when I used a black & white print of the photo (by de-saturating the color), then cutting diagonal slices and repositioning.  I'm set to make this quilt as a  24"X38" piece !  Fun ahead!

Here's the original photo: