I completed faces 8 through 14 this week, these are my three favorites; a pen and ink, a watercolor, and an acrylic. I am trying to spend just a wee bit more time on these, and I am liking the results better. One of my goals for 2017 is to build in a little more S L O W time. This may be a good place to practice getting out of rush mode!
I also did a lot of workshop prep this week, for an Art Journaling 101 workshop as well as an upcoming art journal workshop and next months paper collaging workshops. Here is a workshop example that my daughter/helper made for me.
These ladies did a great job on their art journal 101 pages! (and have some beautiful smiles too!)
I don’t have a picture to share… but I also got all caught up on my 2016 accounting using my new Quick Books software. Pretty proud of myself on that one since bookkeeping is my nemesis!
Today’s workshop has been postponed to next week because of the threat of icy weather. Maybe we will luck out and have a nice beautiful snow instead!
Painting papers and binding them into journals was one of the funnest things we did this week.
The January Art Parts packs went out in the mail this week to those who are ART PARTS subscribers. They are also available at Tessera Fine Art Gallery, and will soon be in my etsy shop as well.
I also got to deliver a commissioned piece of art, and see it in its new home, as well as taking a load of new art to Tessera Fine Art Gallery. I will post photos when my new wall is up!
On a personal note, while hanging out and shopping with my daughter, I found these fabulous doors that are just what we were looking for to enclose a porch on our old house. So exciting!
While there I really enjoyed seeing this little vintage pink toy kitchen set that is just like one I had as a kid!
We also had enjoyable time with crowds of our family. With eight grown children, their spouses and 9 grandchildren, family usually arrives in crowds… but noisy homes full of talking and laughing are a blessing. Just ran across this family photo from about six years ago…makes me laugh all over again!
So that was pretty much my week… how was yours?
Laura (PA Pict)
Your faces are great. I especially love the ink one with the sort of contour lines. It’s fabulous.
victoryrd
Thank you! The contours one was a new technique to me and one I think I will come back to! It really pushes the evaluation of shadow and light!