January 30 x 30 Challenge...Reflections
First thanks to Leslie Seata for making this all possible.... thanks to all the participants ... seeing so much varied art work each day is awesome as well as inspiring. Also thanks to Sea Dean for her art party!!!!
Here we are at the end of our January 30 paintings in 30 days.. This is the third 30 in 30 that I have taken part in. In each one I learned a little more about my self and my habits and my goals.
Why am I doing this challenge
First thanks to Leslie Seata for making this all possible.... thanks to all the participants ... seeing so much varied art work each day is awesome as well as inspiring. Also thanks to Sea Dean for her art party!!!!
Decided to make 2 final collages...one for my references and one for the paintings !
Hope you all enjoyed a brief visit to my favorite spa.
Posting the collages for those not interested in my bla bla ranting...
click to enlarge
References
click to enlarge
Here we are at the end of our January 30 paintings in 30 days.. This is the third 30 in 30 that I have taken part in. In each one I learned a little more about my self and my habits and my goals.
Why am I doing this challenge
Can't put it better than Leslie: The challenge is not about finishing 30 gallery quality "perfect" paintings. It's about getting in to the studio to try new things. It's about painting more often. It's about having fun and developing new habits!What am I learning
- Organization this is key since as we are not only painting but scanning/photographing and blogging
- How to use my reference material .. cropping/editing/fiddling
- Learning more about my media... in this case my wax pastels
- Excepting my limitations and building on them
- More creativity
- Learning more about what I want to say and how to say it
- I do!!!!
This month's challenge I chose to work in one type of format... Heavy brown paper... It was my second choice... wanted to work on heavy grey cardboard but local art store was out of stock. I also decided on the size 20 x 20 except for # 1 which was panoramic. Decided to work with a dry medium Neocolor wax pastels and pencils adding medium or not. I chose a general theme my favorite spa Hamei Yoav which allowed me a wide amount of subject matter.
Congratulations, Carol !
ReplyDeleteYour work and technic is verry lively and interesting!
A very successful body of work - well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much your comments are appreciated
ReplyDeleteThank you very much.... glad you enjoyed my work!!
ReplyDeleteThey look awesome all together! It has been a joy to see them every morning! Congratulations, dear Carol! And feel free to make a collage out of mine if you want (kidding :-)
ReplyDeleteHow unique to share your source photos as well - although I will take a painted image over a photo - any day! What great color Carol - nice paintings!
ReplyDeleteThanks Meredith!!!! No problem at all and NOT Kidding.... :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Pattie.... First time I made a collage for the references... Yes painting over photo any day!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see all of your references too! Congratulations on a terrific month, your style really shines thru!
ReplyDeleteThanks!!! It really has been a fabulous month!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks really appreciate your feedback!!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful series of paintings!!! Congratulations on the challenge!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your feedback!!!!
ReplyDeleteCarol...through our exchange of comments I visited your blog. I love your reflections on the 30/30, especially adding in your references...brilliant! I've signed on to follow you along. As far as the burlap painting...I'm sure stretching your own will be fine, just make sure to prime and I think you'll enjoy it even more! Looking forward to see what you come up with!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your feedback... and for following along.... will look for some burlap and experiment!!!
ReplyDelete