more 365/3

This week's endeavors continue around my two challenges - #28patterns with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and my work for Jane Davies' class.  One is mindless fun, the other is thoughtful, challenging fun.

#49- 50 - patterning for a few days..... all made with my usual 4x6 index card, micron pens and inktense watercolor pencils.

#51 - 56  classwork for 100 drawings on cheap paper.  This week's lesson scaled back and had us focus on creating monochromatic pieces with minimal variety (the exact opposite of last week's). Once again I had fun playing with the bright colors I love and learning so much! thanks Jane!

Some of the papers - stage one!

It was challenging to make these interesting in their subtlety. Some of the detail isn't showing up through the scan, but it's pretty close.  I made lots more of the red/orange/pink ones, a few more yellows and a couple of the beige/sand ones - the red palette was my fave -the color seemed to glow and was so rich.

365 /3 last week

My 365/3 (year 3 of 365 stuff) project continues with my pattern play with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and my class work in the Jane Davies 100 Drawings on Cheap Paper class.  Not time for much else.....

This week's classwork was to use maximum variety in creating 10 drawings with no regard for composition, unity, balance, etc. just variety of line, color, shape.

The other criteria, maybe the hardest, was to make each quadrant of each drawing different from each other.....as different as possible, remembering the point is to achieve maximum variety - variety of line (angular, organic, thick, thin, etc), variety of color/value, soft/hard edges, variety of shapes - actual and implied, variety of technique - layers, stamps, stencils, markers, graphite, paint, oil pastels, or whatever mark making tools are available. Whew - quite a challenge!

I whipped out the first layers on about 16 pieces - just painted for fun, randomly, without much thought.....just getting some color down. Dan came into the room at this point and said it looked like a kindergarten project!  I said, "good" because I was channeling my inner child :)

Then I went back through each adding layers of transparent or opaque paint here and there and sometimes some patterning with stencils. I put it away overnight and went back to them the next day with a more mindful approach and looking to add variety by using contrast - contrast line edges (sharp and rough or broken), using stencils or stamps and a wide range of mark making tools.

Here's an example of a before and after - my "kindergarten" beginning and my varied ending.

Having a fabulous, creative week!

365 /3 classwork and more

Here's what I've been up to:

Still loving Jane Davies' class 100 Drawings on Cheap Paper - highly recommend it if you can find a space - her classes fill up and with good reason.  There's lots of info and feedback there.

#37 - this week's lesson is all about exploring color - how it interacts with adjacent colors, etc.  here are some of my explorations.  These are done on 80# drawing paper 9x12 primarily with acrylic and overlaid with stencils and oil pastels.

#38

#39

#40 - next couple days of pattern play with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer - #28patterns   for February - done on 4x6 index cards.

Hope your week is off to a creative start.

365 /3 - pattern

Working on 2 challenges this month - keeping up with my 365 creative efforts for the year and working on pattern-a-day for the month of February with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  You can see lots of cool patterns via Instagram, #28patterns.

#35 - I'm making my pattern explorations on 4x6 index cards.....they've become a favorite go-to size for experimenting thanks to Daisy Yellow and her ICAD project.  Now I always have index cards sitting around to doodle/scribble/write/experiment on!  The last few days I've found myself drawn to exploring grid layouts.

#36 - a little collage and more grid explorations (below)

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