Drawing Realistic Eyes
Tips for drawing realistic eyes with Stephanie Valentin.
Tools:
Adobe Photoshop, Tablette graphique – Graphic tablet – Wacom Tablet
SaturdayWith Georgia O’Keeffe
The Art of Georgia O’Keeffe
Footage of the 92 year old Georgia O’Keeffe taken in and around her home in New Mexico
“When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore… unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I’m gone”. – Georgia O’Keeffe
“The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho’ it is vast and empty and untouchable… and knows no kindness with all its beauty.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
“I don’t see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn’t it enough just to express yourself?” -Georgia O’Keeffe
Busy Monday
It’s been one of those days where there’s so many ideas buzzing around in my head and just too many other distractions going on to really focus on them.
Hopefully I will have a chance to work on some of these tomorrow.
Sonoma – Combined Media – 8 X 10
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or the another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” – Kandinsky
In the Studio
Spent the morning working on a painting and I’m almost finished! Hallelujah!
Later I played around with a couple of new ideas I wanted to try. As with all things, especially related to art, there are no guarantees.
After a couple of hours I finally had one painting which kind of worked for me. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I had fun creating it
“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the Phoenix.” – Christina Baldwin
“It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix Bird in you so you can rise from the ashes.” – Anne Baxter
Creative Play
Creative playtime is often one of the most important activities we can engage in as artists. I believe taking the time to play with new ideas, new mediums and color palettes, keeps us in touch with our creative child. After all, our child just wants to have some fun. Taking risks and experimenting is key to our growth and makes us feel alive, and rejuvenated.
We all know that it’s fun to create and make things, and yet we tend to go straight from the idea to the finished painting, without giving ourselves some precious creative goofing around time in the studio.
You know what I mean, maybe your a water-colorist or oil painter, and those pastels you bought way back when, has never been opened . The time for trying something new is now, for later seems to never come.
Go ahead, give yourself permission to goof around with something you have always wanted to try, but never did.
Just Breathe, let go, and flow!
Edge Dwellers
A couple of years ago while we were flying back from visiting my dad in the Midwest, we were enjoying our flight and took some wonderful aerial shots with our camera.
While sitting in my window seat watching the landscape below change and shift, cities became tiny islands of humanity in the midst of large expanses of land. The roads appeared as a multitude of tiny web like strands crisscrossing across the land like a giant spider web.
It reminds us that no matter how evolved and technological we become, each of us are only ever a few paces away from the edges of the wild forest and the living storied land.
I wondered what stories would this land be telling about humanity if the earth could speak, and what would our ancient ancestors make of our world. What kind of stories, art, songs and myths would they create about us.
Edge Dwellers – Combined Media – 5 X 7 inches
Finished My Painting!
Today I finished the painting I’ve been working on for awhile and it was nice to finally be done. The limited edition prints will be available soon on rosearizmendi.com
The Awakening – Combined Media – 11 X 14 inches
Artist Trading Cards
Over the past few days I have been working on ATC cards instead of my other paintings, patiently waiting for me in the studio…
ATC cards are miniature works of art created on a 2.5 x 3.5 card, that are traded between artists. I am having so much fun and will post a few when I”m finished.
“Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I’ll tell you who you are.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset –
Summer Solstice
It promises to be a very hot day, but it’s still cool enough to get some work done in the studio. Have a great weekend!
Faerie Forest – Combined Media – 11 X 14 inches
“When the quiet ring of pearl shall wed the earth, and the scarlet berries burn dark by the stars in the pool; Oh, it’s lost and deep I’ll be amid the Danaan mirth, while the heart of the earth is full.” – George Russell
“We all need to have a creative outlet, a window or space,
so we don’t lose track of ourselves.” -Norman Fischer
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere. ” -Carl Sagan
It’s Friday!
After a full day of painting, I decided to clean my studio, and get ready for the month of June. So here’s to a new month of new beginnings, inspiration, and creativity.
Have a Great Weekend!
Angel Of Love by Rose Arizmendi (c) 2008- Collage/Combined Media
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
–Joseph Addison
“Most of a woman’s depressions, ennuis, and wandering confusions are caused by a severely restricted soul-life in which innovation, impulse, and creation are restricted or forbidden. Women receive enormous impulse to act from the creative force.”
–Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“We don’t remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.”
–Linda Pastan