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The Artistic Biker Does Strawberries

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This week we did a little tutorial about value charts and it inspired me to do a monochrome painting of strawberries. Materials used were: An art journal, acrylic gesso, flat white spray paint, Sargent Arts Acrylic Paint liquid Spectral Red, Real Art Supplies Acrylic liquid Carbon Black, Master’s Touch Fine Art Studio Acrylic Titanium White, Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle watercolor pencil Red, Uniball Vision Elite gel pen Black, Brush Pen with Bombay Black India Ink.

Seal the page with acrylic gesso
I use white matte krylon for the base coat
Using only red, white, and black, create background shadows
Use a watercolor pencil to sketch your image
Block in your base shapes
Begin adding detail
Shade the large shapes
Add fine details
I used white paint to back of some excess shadow I didn’t like

Georgia O’Keeffe was known for here majestic desert scene paintings and her paintings of limited pallet or monochrome, naked botanical lady parts. You can learn about her life as an artist from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum video: Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life in Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UonkqMuOZgM

Watch the extend play, without the paint drying over @YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OLklqJnwqJw

Weekly Update 10SEP2015

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Things are changing in my world and this time it looks like the light at the end of the tunnel might not be a train.

Watch the LONGY here: https://youtu.be/czQ3sV1etxA

Watch the QUICHE here: https://youtu.be/SvBlRKBYnAM

Watch the EASELS here: https://youtu.be/RkZpKHT-q_Q

This week’s easels are from Athala (http://www.youtube.com/user/jandrathala), Jay the Viking (http://moon-light-creations.webs.com), The Sexy, Red-Headed Darcy (http://art-and-sole.blogspot.co.uk), and Artist Poet Girl Jamie (http://mypurpledoorstudios.blogspot.com).

Weekly Update 10SEP2015

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Things are changing in my world and this time it looks like the light at the end of the tunnel might not be a train.

Watch the LONGY here:https://youtu.be/czQ3sV1etxA

Watch the QUICHE here: https://youtu.be/SvBlRKBYnAM

Watch the EASELS here: https://youtu.be/RkZpKHT-q_Q

This week’s easels are from Athala (http://www.youtube.com/user/jandrathala), Jay the Viking (http://moon-light-creations.webs.com), The Sexy, Red-Headed Darcy (http://art-and-sole.blogspot.co.uk), and Artist Poet Girl Jamie (http://mypurpledoorstudios.blogspot.com).

Weekly Update 28MAY2015

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I’ve spent some time in Louisiana this week and sat on a cool patio in a soft rain while drinking ice cold beer and eating hot crawfish. PURE BLISS! Thought I’d paint about it in my journal a bit. The Sexy, Red-Headed Darcy named our crustacean Steve

The Longy: Can’t get enough of watching paint dry with us? Me neither. Here is the 90 minute LONGY.  https://youtu.be/NgnWN5_w2TQ

The Quiche: It’s pronounced “Quickie”. If you would like to see the process at high speed with me and the family singing a song along with it, then the 3 minute Quiche is for you. https://youtu.be/RyrbM_FewKo

The Easels: Each week my fabulously talented friends send in photos and videos of their works for me to share with you. Hopefully, it inspires EVERYONE to create something. This week we have Kelly Byrne, The Sexy, Red-Headed Darcy, Pamela French, Jamie Lynne and Jay the Viking.  Click Here to watch What’s On Your Easel! https://youtu.be/qukLE4y5oas

The Easels

Speaking of the easels, I up and left town with laptop in hand to edit this post and get it out for the website and the newsletter, but failed to bring any of the cool easel photos with me. They are all on the desktop that we usually broadcast from. I don’t want you to miss them, so expect a supplement newsletter in the very near future.

The Artistic Biker Does A Tribute to a Friend

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Some candles burn out before their time. A dear friend of ours took his life last week. It has really been hard on all of us. I’m not very good at talking about, but I had an image in my head I had to get out. If you or someone you know needs help call 1-800-273-8255,

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

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The Quiche

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsnGmQ8CGmU

The Easels

This week’s easel features the artwork of Athala (http://www.youtube.com/user/jandrathala), The Mighty Jay (http://moon-light-creations.webs.com), MWallcutt, and The Sexy, Red-headed DarcyW (http://art-and-sole.blogspot.co.uk)

The Longy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-aNNB-CgKc