EMERGING ARTISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ladies 1 Day Art Camp

I invited 7 ladies to my home for a

one day "intro to Art" camp.

The only requirement was that all

had to be new to drawing and painting.

Most had never put pencil to paper or

brush to paint before.

I shared what I had learned from an 

on line course taught by:

Kkoosje Koene called JUST DRAW IT

http://koosjekoene.blogspot.ca/

I learned a lot. The class was affordable,

 suitable and appropriate for all ages.

I would highly recommend it.

Check out her blog for the"draw tip tuesday"

feature where she gives free lessons 

via 3-4 minutevideos.

We started the day with doing  orange/yellow

and blue/violet backwashes with watercolour.

Once dry we drew oranges and whales.

While waiting for the backwashes to

dry everyone drew "teachers pet" using

a technique (drawing upside down)

 designed to encourage and 

  prove to everyone that they have 

the  ability to take pencil in

hand and draw.

Please have a look at the final results 

for the day. Everyone one left highly

satisfied and surprised at what they were

able to create.

Apples using coloured pencil

HARVEST watercolour

Tomatoes

Peppers

Onion

To Autumn

John Keats (1820)

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,    Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless    With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,    And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;       To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells    With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease,       For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?    Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,    Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,    Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook       Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep    Steady thy laden head across a brook;    Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,       Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?    Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,    And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn    Among the river sallows, borne aloft       Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;    Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft    The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;       And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

BREAD CAKES water colour/recipe

Bread Cakes are easy and very forgiving.

Amounts of ingredients are flexible.

The basic recipe is based on my easy

Bread recipe found on this blog. The

Difference is that bread cakes don't 

Require kneading and once doubled in

Size are ready to pour into your pan with

A warm healthy treat ready in just 10 minutes.

Serve with jam, peanut butter or plain. 

They will keep in the fridge for up to a week.

I toast them from the refrigerator to restore

That just cooked niceness.

ART CAMP

My church sponsored an ART CAMP for

20 kids ages 8 to 14

I shared my time to show the kids

how to create an ART JOURNAL.

Embellishing our creations with words

that bring strong images to mind will 

stimulate the imagination giving further

dimension and depth to our pictures.

It will help to increase one's vocabulary,

powers of observation and self expression.

Increasing our powers of observation 

can have the effect of increasing

our AWE & WONDER of God .

It allows us to discover creation in a more

 intimate way coming to a place to

CONSIDER instead of Understanding.

I took the pages home to sew them all 

together on my sewing machine. Each 

child was able to take home a journal 

of about 10-12 pages with pictures 

and descriptive words.

This student drew her classmates

as she viewed them from across the table.

GYOTAKU WITH PRAWNS

My daughter and I taught the kids how 

to do gyotaku. The prints were made on

rice paper, glued onto a canvas followed

by wet plaster with swirls of paint at the 

bottom of the canvas. Before the plaster set

 the kids pressed in shells, sea glass and

drift wood. 

The last project of the day

was without instruction. The kids 

had the opportunity to choose  from

our boxes of shells, driftwood, sea glass and

paints to make whatever their imaginations

wanted to create.