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TAKING AN ONLINE CLASS

I do not have a good record with online classes. I have trouble getting a regular time to work on my assignments and I have a bad habit of letting things drift. I am currently enrolled in a class with Jane Davenport and am working on my drawing skills. 

One of our assignments was to make an emotional map of facial expressions. Here is the beginning of my map.

Below are three steps in drawing my first face. I decided to try to make an elf

instead of a "regular" person. I used copic markers to color the face.

INCHIES AND TWINCHIES

Often, when I'm in a bit of an artistic slump, I find it useful to make component parts (see previous posts on stamp carving and paper painting). It makes me feel productive; and, I know I'll use them later (often "as is," sometimes with modifications). That said - I've been working on fabric inchies (one inch squares) and twinchies (two inch squares). I have some scraps from my cutter quilts that seemed perfect for turning into twinchies and inchies.

I cut out several squares and I am slowly working on embellishing them.

Here are the twinchies that I have embellished.

And, below are the inchies.

USING THE GELLI PLATES

You can't have too many papers. I love my Gelli Plate and I love printing papers with it. I'm working on building a nice supply for projects so I'll have them when I'm ready to use them.

 

CARVING MORE STAMPS

I've had a fairly unproductive art time for a while (Excuses: got a new knew on January 16 and have been sort of dealing with that - will get a new right knee on March 6 - don't worry, I won't show you my scars; have been overwhelmed by snow and cold). I finally got into production mode and carved some stamps to use in journals (and cards and collages and for fabrics).

I wanted some border images...

I also played with making positive and negative images for borders

I decided it would be fun to have a couple of city scapes.

 

You can't go wrong with hearts (or can you)...

well, I decided I went wrong with the solid hearts and carved design into them.

I think I may try to make some more word stamps.