Wringing out the old and Ringing in the New Year! Â This week’s art journal entry is done with acrylic paint and cut out collage. Â Remnants of the year gone include the bottle of rum, the tiger striped bra, “draw a cat” and “put a bird on it!” Â I was an AWESOME year. Â 2012 is already shaping up for awesomeness too. Â Look forward to seeing you in it.
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Hello Peoples!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Ugh, I’m sick of saying it already. Â :)
I hope that everyone who celebrated made it home safe and sound. Â We had a small gathering at the studio. Â Everyone was so wrapped up in their art, we ended up not noticing the new year until it was midnight in the NEXT time zone. Â I did automate a “White Rabbit” tweet so at least I got that out there. Â Most notably, however, I began 2011 arting, I ended 2011 arting, and I started 2012 arting. Â Seems like a pretty good streak to me.
I can honestly say there was absolutely NO progress made on the studio this week. Â Between family commitments and a day job that I feel responsible to, I never really got away many daylight hours to get anything done.
This time of year we are ALL severely limited on fundage so we may be building with used pallets.  If you would like to help with that, you can go to artisticbiker.com and look for the DONATE button on the right side column and donate what you can.  If you can’t do that, please share this newsletter with everyone you know to help get the word out.  That helps more than you know.  Or better yet, Click Here to Join! artisticbiker.com/membership and help promote the arts in rural Oklahoma.
If you have any announcements you would like made in the newsletter or tweeted about incessantly, drop me a line and I’ll toot your horn for ya.  ;)  There were no announcements this week.
This week’s password: beginning
The Classroom site is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oasisgalleryok
Drawing Class: The Eye – Tuesday night 6pm central. Â A one hour class is a bit short to go into complete portraiture. Â It’s a little in depth for a beginners class also. Â However, we can run through the components of a face a little at a time. Â This week, I’ll talk about basic eye structure, detail, and shading.
Painting Class: Composition – Wednesday night 6pm central. As we kick off a new year, let’s kick off with a new painting and discuss orienting a design on a surface.
The past classes are moving into the Pay-per-view side of ustream and on artisticbiker.com as well. $2 lets you view them online at Ustream, $5 lets you download them at artisticbiker.com, and a $10/month membership gets you unlimited downloads from the site.
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See you
I have many props in my studio, as well as many ideas on manipulating paint. Â The other day I noticed a bra and a rum bottle sitting next to a coffee cup on a table. Â That was the inspiration for the still life, but I’ve been conceptualizing this back ground for weeks. Â I really like how this one turned out, but I think I can still tweak it a bit in the next piece. Â I’ll talk more about the process in painting class. Â I also think on the next one I will put a bird on it.
It’s the last Saturday of the year and the last Daddy/Daughter breakfast of the year. Â That doesn’t really mean anything other than another year is gone and a new one is starting. Â Just a blunt reminder of how little time we actually get to spend together.
As you can see, there are a LOT of coffee cups sketched during Daddy/Daughter breakfast. Â I’m proud of the influence it is having one Girl2. Â She took a break from drawing hearts, fairies, and rainbow butterflies to try her hand at a coffee mug and the juice glasses… with fairies and rainbow butterflies.
Tonight in Painting Class I finished up the fire hydrant example I have been working on. We talked about pushing the colors, using quality materials, atmospheric perspective and the whole lot. Immediately after I turned the cameras off, I decided to ink it. I'm really glad I did.
The class is online and free at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19435761
The password for the class can be found in the current newsletter here: https://www.artisticbiker.com/newsletter
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