We had breakfast wicked early this week so we could dash over and finish cleaning the studio. We’re teaching sketching to the art council’s First Saturday Kid’s Club.
Sketches and Musings
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Studio Update 01AUG2013
This Saturday I will be teaching an outdoor sketching class for the Chickasha Area Art Council’s First Saturday Kids Club. I have been stressing a bit about where to get inexpensive sketchbooks. It wasn’t going to be a big deal. I was going to just fold over some 11″x17″ paper and loan them a clipboard. YESTERDAY, however, I stumbled across a school supply warehouse that was open to the public. They have apparently been around for 100 years. When I asked about student sketchbooks, she led me down a dusty old Aisle and showed me a stack of 12″x18″ sketchbooks that had been on that shelf for over 15 years. They sold them to me for 25¢ each so I bought all of them. Then I brought them to my day job and put them on the shear to cut them in half. Now I have 74 9″x12″ sketchpads that cost 12.5¢ each. I love finding bargains like that!
Where do YOU find your best art supply savings?
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What’s On Your Easel 23JUL2013
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwLl72vMmmU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwLl72vMmmU
Each week on The Artistic Biker Live, I have a segment where I promote other artists around the web in what I like to call “What’s On Your Easel?”! Â Here are this week’s entries:
Last week we had works submitted by Michelle Greene Hotchkiss (https://www.facebook.com/MichelleHotchkissArt):
Wandering Widget sent in:
The Sexy, Red-headed DarcyW (http://art-and-sole.blogspot.co.uk)
Penny’s Mom
Athala (http://www.youtube.com/user/jandrathala)
And Athala also sent a special birthday song to Girl2
http://youtu.be/y-OkwlT3SFs
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$2 Tutorial Tuesday: Visual Cues
This is an introduction to using visual cues to get your art across.  Sometimes it’s not about painting what you see, but what your audience expects to see.This tutorial is available for download for $2
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The Artistic Biker Does A Monochrome Cat
The Videos
I like the challenges. If you have a challenge you would like to see me try, don’t hesitate to shout it out in the comments below. This week I was challenged to do a monochrome a painting. So I did a monochrome cat. Now I used tints and shades of red to paint this. I achieved the tints and shades by adding white or black to the red. It has been suggested that in order to be a true monochrome, I should only have been allowed to use one hue and thinner. I’d love to hear your discussion on that as well.
This week’s easel features the artwork of Wondering Widget, The Sexy, Red-headed DarcyW (http://art-and-sole.blogspot.co.uk), Athala (http://www.youtube.com/user/jandrathala), Michelle Greene Hotchkiss (https://www.facebook.com/MichelleHotchkissArt)
Video Short:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YZ2AIGJLQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YZ2AIGJLQ
Video Long:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni-udQBwCzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni-udQBwCzM
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