A Coat of Many Colors

ג  וְיִשְׂרָאֵל, אָהַב אֶת-יוֹסֵף מִכָּל-בָּנָיו--כִּי-בֶן-זְקֻנִים הוּא, לוֹ; וְעָשָׂה לוֹ, כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.

This painting started not with Joseph's coat in mind, and I doubt that his coat looked anything like these interwoven stripes, but somehow it got stuck in my mind after the painting was finished.

As you all know I am a bit obsessive when it comes to tutorials and online lessons. I have taken many classes and I think I could spend more than a year just re-taking them. This started with a free lesson given at  Jeanne Oliver , A Guiding Word taught by Rae Missigman.  I experimented with a way of putting down paint by squirting paint on the top in varying widths and dragging it down with a scraper, palette knife or whatever to cover the substrate. Don't know if this is now free but she does have about 35 Free classes online at this time. Of course, I went every which way!

WIP

Acrylics on brown paper

13.5" x 19.5"

This sat around for quite a while and then I saw a great tutorial by Jane Davies about stripes on paper bags. Brown paper,yes, stripes, my interpretation! 

Coat of Many Colors

Acrylics on brown paper

13.5" x 19.5"

Wish I had a rug like this!

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Homebound but still going places

"I want a painting to take me to a place I haven't been before." Emily Mason

This is a new artist that I was introduced to by Joan Fullerton. I am "in love" with her work. Gifted myself a book about her work! Can't wait till it arrives

So back to my travels! Going far and wide, like I was on wings. This painting I started with a new BossyPants I found on her site. Hey give it a try.... it's just paper and paint..playtime!

Enchanted Forest

20" x 20" 

Acrylics on toned heavy brown paper

Generosity

I have always found that artists, in general, are very generous. In times like these, it is especially true. Almost daily I find from some of the artists I follow free tutorials to help inspire our creative process and help us fill the void and keep us focused.

One artist and one of my favorites is Pauline Agnew. She has recovered from Coronavisus and has kindly given some great free tutorials.  Finding Inspiration is a sort of meditative charcoal drawing exercise.  I did 2 on tinted pastel paper. Pauline suggests using these to find windows of inspiration. Pauline also has a FB page for Artists in Residence and can be found on Instagram as well.
The first charcoal on grey tinted paper. 

Charcoal on gray tinted paper

19.750 x 13.750 "

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