Creating a gestural, anatomical and structural life drawing with Gary Geraths.
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the [...]
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Below is one of the images from my daily warm up exercises this morning.
I started by spreading a layer of heavy gel medium on watercolor paper and drew patterns into the gel with old plastic cards, rubber stamps, and various sizes of old margarine lids.
I then used my sculpture tools to define certain areas by [...]
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The weather was so fantastic I just had to be out in the garden!
I grabbed my Fabriano Journal and watercolors and created the first image with a micron pen and watercolor. The second image was made with a micron #03 pen.
The journal has a variety of colored pages so the page color of the first [...]
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I didn’t get much done in the studio yesterday, but was I ever busy with Spring cleaning!
I spent most of the day raking and cleaning up the backyard, and I was one tired puppy when I finished. I had planned on getting some work done in the studio, but that never happened.
My plan for tomorrow [...]
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Glenn Trotter is truly a gifted artist. Beautiful!
One of a kind Pottery by Arizona Raku Artist Glenn Trotter
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Here’s a little something to brighten everyone’s day …
Collage Fashion Illustrations
Altered Tin – Wisdom
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Happy Vernal Equinox!
I have been out and about enjoying the nice weather, taking lots of photos. I love the sense of renewal that comes with Spring!
I have also been hard at work in my studio painting a new piece which features a portal and an abstract bird. I will post it in a couple of [...]
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you are celebrating and having a fun day. Don’t forget to wear green so that you won’t get pinched!
May the luck of the Irish be with you!
Ancient Symbols – Acrylic Art/Mixed Media Collage – 7.50 x 11 inches on paper
I painted this piece spontaneously from my imagination. Unfortunately not [...]
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The first video shows how to make an altered trinket box.
Awesome! What a great idea for gift giving.
I love this video! A friend of mine taught me how to make these paper flowers years ago, and I had a ball making them for a spring tea party we were giving.
They added such a festive atmosphere [...]
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Today was another gorgeous, wonderful day here in northern California!
Today, I prepped a couple of sheets of watercolor paper for tomorrow and did this painting in the afternoon. It was one of those happy accidents.
I accidentally spilled some watercolor paint on the paper and as I was trying to clean it off, this winged figure [...]
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