*****My Joyful Art Studio*****: May 2012

Saturday, May 5, 2012

The Art of Wild Abandonment...Blog HOP 2012

Blog Hop-2012

Greetings Ladies-Hope you will enjoy my journey in the workshop THE ART OF WILD ABANDONMENT...

I am so excited to a part of my very first BLOG HOP. I am sitting here writing during a thunderstorm in Southern Indiana. We have a metal roof and the rain is just pounding down on us right now. I do believe if this carries on, we will not be getting much sleep tonight!

The Home Schooled Radishes

I must say I have LOVED this class with Junelle Jacobsen and Christy Tomlinson So MUCH. It has opened my mind to sketch the darndest things...Radishes...REALEE...I laughed my booty off when I found out, we were going to be sketching radishes! I would take my sketch book, pencils and my water color crayons with me everywhere I would go, just in case I had a down moment that I could sneak a sketch. Oh yes, then, I'd be all giddy inside as I pulled out my baggy of radishes. My boys think I've lost my mind somewhere, as they would catch meLAUGHING for no apparent reason! I had no idea, that sketching radishes would become such a wonderful, rewarding, engaging...way of gathering my thoughts or ideas, and it started in the garden with a RADISH!!! This makes my heart H A P P Y....as I am swinging from the chandelier singing...hahaha, just kidding about the swinging from the chandalier...but you get the idea.

Thoughts on Creative Practicing...

I have been teaching painting classes for several years now. I started with oils then moved into acrylics. Dorothy Dent is an artist from Missouri who paints country scenes on wood and saw blades of all shapes and sizes. As I would purchase her books with her patterns and replicate different pattern designs onto different objects, it didn't seem to bother me that I was "copying" her work. I mean after all I did purchase her permission, so to speak, right? So I think for me, I support Creative Practicing by Danielle Donaldson, is an EYE opening thought, idea, and wake up call for this artist. I was always bothered by the thought, of copying others work...but isn't that the way we learn? We learn by doing, and repeating, and studying material that others have gone on to conquer before us. It's adding our touch, our sense of color, light and dark, our personality, our, spirit, our soul, our vision to a piece of work, that maybe another person, before us created. I have been teaching what I call "Master Studies for Kids," for several years now. We read about the artist, and get to know him, then admire his work, and technique, then reproduce it somehow, in our own way. I have loved doing this with the kids. So very thankful for the article written by Danielle Donaldson...you too, can read it for yourself on her blog...www.danielledonaldson.com/creativepracticing.