Circles: 6/27/08

I continued to color this piece, the upper middle & middle section. I choose my colors randomly by looking over at my palette of pencils, which include true blue, copenhagen blue, indigo blue, goldenrod, yellow ocher, canary yellow, lemon yellow, raspberry, scarlet lake, crimson red, cloud blue, black cherry and dioxide purple. All are prismacolor brand pencils.

Circles: 6/14-6/20/08

This project idea came out of sitting at the bus stop during a particularly wet spring while watching the rain drops hit the puddles and their ripples. The circles are a little difficult to see in this photo. Rather than do a traditional mandala shape, the mandala circles are within the 22x30 in rectangular paper.

Step 1: Drew the circles 6/14/08

Step 2: Lay the first layer of color throughout the piece. I began with the upper left hand corner 6/19/08

Step 2 (cont): Added more color, working down the left side and towards the middle 6/20/08

Mixed Media: Daisies 6/14/08

I started applying color pencils to this painting. Basically what I do is look for shapes and add more definition, contrast, and color to them.
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Mixed Media: Coils 6/14/08

I removed the coils to reveal this. The next step is to add color pencils and possibly some markers to enhance the nooks and crannies of this painting.
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Abstract Watercolor/Mixed Media: Blues & Reds 06/14

Now that I finished with the watercolor spraying, I started coloring in sections with color pencils to give it more shape and definition.
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Mixed Media: Coils 6/13/08

Last night I added yellow ink to this painting. I sprayed the paper with water first and then 'dropped' the ink onto the paper. Some of the coils had moved while moving the whole piece from my table to the window shelf of my studio.



In the lower left hand corner you can just make out about 5 or 6 blue blobs where a coil had been.

Mixed Media: Coils 6/12/08

I know...it's been awhile. I let other things take precedence over playing. What a world...what a world.

I started a new piece today. The white coils are from the coil bindings I use for my coloring books. Because the coils are longer than the length of the books, I have to clip off the excess. I was going to throw them away and thought better of it.

I taped down wet watercolor paper, dropped the coils down on the paper, spread them out a bit, and then, using a dropper, drop blue drawing ink onto the paper. The ink immediately spread out. Whatever pooled up, I sprayed with water to help spread it around.

In this photo the paper and ink are still wet.

Mixed Media: Black/Red Shapes 5/30 - 6/1/08

On 5/29 I had the idea to put down strips of tape on watercolor paper and then spray with watered-down watercolor paint. On 5/30 I started one. Here I sprayed with black and then red. It's still wet in this photo.

On 5/31 I sprayed another layer of black and then red so that it would create more contrast when I removed the tape. The paint is still wet in this photo.

On 6/1 I removed the tape to reveal the white paper beneath.

After looking at the white space for a while, I saw shapes within the white spaces. I pulled out my color pencils and began coloring. Towards the end of coloring for that day, the thought "a little rough around the edges" came to mind...That may be what I'll call this piece in the end.