Charcoal Studies in Abstraction

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 100 and 101 of 365 Days of Art

I’m redoing a class in abstract painting with Karine Swenson. Our first assignment was to create these abstract studies in charcoal.

Mythical Beast and Spooky Tree

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…days 98 and 99 of the 365 Days of Art

Over the last two days I’ve gone back to my 500 Daily Drawing Prompts journal to create two more sketches. The first one I did was the spooky tree which was fun to do but I feel like I relied too heavily on an image I found on Google. The second sketch, the mythical beast, was my own creation. I did search the web for some ideas and came up with this flying serpent.

Playing With Complementary Colours

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 97 of 365 Days of Art

A couple of days ago I was watching a video on YouTube on how complementary colours ‘vibrate’ when placed next to each other. Jean Lurssen does a series of watercolour videos with exercises that help the painter loosen up and experiment with a number of different techniques. Check her out.

One Hot Mess

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 96 of 365 days of art

Not everything that I paint or draw will be pretty. In this piece I finally got back to playing with ink and watercolour and experimenting with how they interact. You can see that I got a little carried away but I wanted you to see that I haven’t given up on my personal art challenge.

Flags, Tattoo, Family Crest

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 95 of the 365 Days of Art

I’ve started my day by drawing in my new art journal 500 Drawing Prompts. Today the prompts are flags, tattoos and family crest. I drew the flag from memory, the crest I made up and the tattoo I referenced from Google. Unfortunately you can see how the pen from the previous drawing has bled through. I’ve switched to Micron pens and that seems to help.

Dreaming of Summer

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..beaches and sandcastles

For day 94 of my 365 Days of Art challenge I chose to draw a sandcastle. It was a prompt from my 500 Drawing Prompts journal

I See a Bird and a Piano!

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….a piano????

This is day 92 of my 365 Days of Art challenge. In my last posting I told you about Carla Sonheim’s challenge More is More. This is my second attempt at taking a piece of art that I wasn’t thrilled with and adding more paint. For this one I was a bit more whimsical and started to add some funny little character drawings throughout. I sent the finished piece via WhatsApp to my granddaughter and asked her what she saw. Her reply was ‘a bird and a piano’.

Here is the original art followed by the new piece. What do you see?

365 Days of Art – Yellow

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 90

A few days ago Carla Sonheim posted a prompt. It was a quote from the artist Pierre Bonnard. I have to admit that I had never heard of him before but he managed to make a living from his art in the early 1900s right up to the 1940s while living in France.

The quote was “One cannot have too much yellow”.

I decided to take a page of one-liner drawings and add some colour with paint and collage. I painted the background with yellow watercolours and then I cut up paper to add texture and visual interest to the flowers. After that I took markers and conte pencils and added more lines and squiggly detail.

Journal Art – Day 89

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….exploring different styles of art for my 365 Days of Art

I’ve been following a number of journal artists but have yet to actually try my hand at it. Today is the day. Here’s my first attempt.

365 Days of Art – Tulips

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 88

I’m back to sketching and after completing these tulips I decided they needed some colour. Out came my watercolours and in a few minutes my sketch was transformed.