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March ABS challenge: Emily Carr’s Haida Totems
It seems that each month brings a slightly different sort of challenge, or at least I keep finding new things to learn about my work as I do them! I loved the colors in her watercolor and I have always been fond of the Pacific Northwest, so I expected this month to be at least easier than last month. I did some searching for other images by Carr and found that she used more vibrant colors in other pieces and a bit about her history. I was in NH for several weeks visiting my mother and I took advantage of her art library to see what she had on Inuit…
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February ArtBeadScene Challenge: News of Spring!
The February challenge piece is an illustration from 1913 by Edward Julius Detmold, “Amapolus”. The colors are not really my normal palette and the delicate precision of the illustration felt a bit intimidating at first, I have to admit. My work is organic, but not in the precise, lovely way that Detmold’s work is! I did enjoy working with the different coral and red striped canes that I tried for the leaves, but I couldn’t master the tiny tendrils of the seeds the way I wanted to and still be confident that they would stand up to any kind of wear. I ended up with a pin and a…
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The Joy of a new Challenge!
As part of my class on Engaging your Voice, I not only did the homework assignment (that’s another post!), but also wanted to provide a real time example of how an art practice can be used to both stimulate and evolve my voice. I have looked at the Art Bead Scene monthly challenge a couple of times and considered it but never followed through successfully. I decided to use their monthly challenge as my guinea pig and signed up. The inspiration piece for January 2015 was by Hundertwasser: I loved the vitality of the colors, particularly given the grey days of winter so common in MN in January, but they…
