Real Estate & Sleep

 A new gadget 

Always looking

How many steps

How much sleep

Heart beat

Obsession! 

"In healthy adults, about 13 to 23 percent of your sleep is deep sleep. So if you sleep for 8 hours a night, that’s roughly 62 to 110 minutesTrusted Source of your sleep is deep sleep. So if you sleep for 8 hours a night, that’s roughly 62 to 110 minutes." Healthline.

What has that got to do with real estate? Nothing! Just been on my mind lately!

Also been thinking about real estate. Not the kind you buy, but the space you create on. Your substrate size. I would call myself a medium size painter. 5"x7" would probably be the smallest I would go. If I want smaller, say for cards, I have my trusty cutter. 

Last fall did an exercise on a full sheet of paper, roughly 27"x39" of a repetitive pattern with various pencils, graphite, charcoal, crayons, etc on newsprint. I chose the circle as my motif, loosely! Had it on my wall, mainly for inspiration, loved various sections. Masking tape isn't a good adhesive, and it kept falling off. Didn't want to chop it off, but I needed smaller real estate.

Then I viewed Helen Wells' video on one page sketchbook! 

Voila! 8 pages of smaller real estate, around 6.5"x10", that I can experiment with, fold in squares up, etc. In the photos you can see extra creases.

Full Sheet

Front

2-3

4-5

6-7

Back

Paper has tape stains, tears, etc, but I love it. Hope to start a new series of circle motifs . Click to enlarge files!

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Collage with Oils & Cold Wax

 Jen Jovan's last post really brought me back to my senses. Brought me back to my small world and into my studio. Worked with some starts that have been waiting for some time for my attention. Did an exercise recently for the Cold Wax Academy and one thing that I learned was one of the ways that I paint is very intuitive and sometimes aggressive and even destructive. In this painting I started with some collage pieces, which would give me a compositional start. Not quite complete, I may add some wax crayon marking. 

WIP

20 x14.3"

Collage Oils and Cold Wax on paper

Layer 2

Layer 1

Collage over staining with some

mark-making

Zantangle to Neurographica

 Each spring Karen Abend gives a free an online event called Sketchbook Revival. Two weeks of  artists giving various lessons to help us create each day in our sketchbooks. I usually pick which artist I want to view. This year, a lesson on Zentangle caught my eye. They have a special FB page, so a chance post on zentangles led me to Neurographica. Both are great for small projects and limited and easy supplies, mainly pens, markers, colored pencils, crayons. 

Joy

Pen and graphite

6.5x6.5"

Sketchbook

The artist instructor was Melinda Barlow. Learned several patterns in the one lesson. 

A chance post on the Sketchbook Revival FB page brought me to Neurographica.  Both can be quite obsessive. I limit myself to my quiet time after lunch or evening watching TV, sometimes with the sound off. 

6.5x6,5"

Mircron Pen

Sketchbook

6.5x6,5"

Mircron Pen

Sketchbook

8.3x5.5"

Micron Pen

Sketchbook

8.3x5.5

Marker + colored pencils (Woodies)

11.7x8.2" (A4)
Marker + Soft Pastels
Smudging
Shadows are bad photography!

Memories of Morocco

 We are all subject to a chain of events of which we don't have any control. Class trip to Eilat. Two boys infected. The entire class had to be tested, fast test and longer, more precise test. Friday supper cancelled, caught us as we were about to leave. The new normal, nothing is normal. Just ranting, nothing to do with Morocco!

The Cold Wax Academy gave us a homework project,paint 3 to 5 small paintings as a series. I chose Memories of Morocco as my subject/content. 2015 I took a trip to Morocco with my daughter. She was a yoga instructor for the trip. This trip had lasting memories and a pair of stencils that reminded me of the patterns pushed me to this choice.. So my focused intentions were the memories of place,Morocco, limited color palette, use of stencils and masks.

Palette:  Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue, Indian Yellow White,Paynes Gray(my black) and Buff Titanium.

14x16"

Oils and Cold Wax on Paper

16x16"

Oils and Cold Wax on Paper

16x16"

Oils and Cold Wax on Pape

16x16"

Oils and Cold Wax on Paper

16x16"

Oils and Cold Wax on Paper

Critique if any get chosen on January 12th!

Some posts I made of the trip:

https://caroled-artstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/morocco-2015-trip-day-1.html

https://caroled-artstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/morocco-2015-trip-day-2-lost.html

https://caroled-artstuff.blogspot.com/2015/11/morocco-2015-trip-day-3.html

https://caroled-artstuff.blogspot.com/2015/11/morocco-2015-trip-day-4.html