Mama Cormier

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Day 8 – Painting Over and Trying Again

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Mama Cormier

….to post or not to post

When a piece of art doesn’t work do you own up to it and post it anyway? Since I’m on this Daily Art Challenge for March I feel like I’m being dishonest when I don’t talk about my failed pieces. I seem to be in a rut right now. Nothing I do seems to work. I’ve painted over this one piece now three times. If it doesn’t work this time I think I need to start fresh and put this piece aside.

I wanted to paint using bright and cheery colours but it just didn’t work for me. I’m better off painting intuitively. Here is where it started and how I repainted over it this morning. No guarantees that this is going to work.

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The Corkies Wish all my Women Friends a Happy International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Mama Cormier

….Kevin’s family of mice finally have a name

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Slow Mark Making on Day 7

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Mama Cormier

…some days these warm-up activities are the best art I make for that day

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Wishing the World Peace and Harmony

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Mama Cormier

….difficult to paint when I’m seeing so many negative images on TV

I continue make art every day but on Day 6 of my March Art Challenge I needed some positive symbols of peace. For my warm-up activity I found these Chinese characters of Peace and Harmony.

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Macro Monday – Diving into the Evergreens

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Mama Cormier

On one of my walks this weekend I discovered that there were some interesting macro shots amidst the branches of the evergreens that I passed. I walked over patches of ice and mud to get a closer look. Here’s what I found.

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Warming Up and Getting Ready to Make Two More Paintings

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Mama Cormier

….more mark making on white and over colour

Day 5

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More Mark Making – Day 4

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Mama Cormier

…a little bit of art every day for the month of March

This form of mark making is very relaxing. Thanks to Amy Maricle for reminding me how much I enjoy this.

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One Down, Nine to Go

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Mama Cormier

….this painting took an unexpected turn

I knew that the painting that I started two days ago needed some changes but it changed drastically and now it’s almost unrecognizable from the original. I’m actually very happy with it and it will probably end up in my solo show at the end of June.

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Mindful Mark Making – Day 3

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Mama Cormier

….really enjoying this very zen-like exercise of slow drawing

I’m a follower of Amy Maricle at Mindful Art Studio, amy@mindfulstudio.com. Every week she hosts a free workshop on slow drawing. I love the exercises and find that the mark making comes in handy with my paintings. Here are three exercises that I finished late last night.

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Holy Trio of Stained Glass – March 3, 2022

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Mama Cormier

….after spending a couple of hours at Grace on the Hill Church today listening to a live concert I was able to capture some beautiful stained glass windows for Thursday Trios

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If you have some trios you’d like to share with me and your followers just copy my link and paste it into your blog post. I’ll get a pingback and I will surely check it out and get back to you.