May sketch class

We had our monthly sketch class on Sunday this month since my garden tour was on our regular day. I had been playing with a macro lens on my camera and had taken some wonderful photos of the flowers in my garden. These macro shots make wonderful pages for journaling since they can be almost abstract and they fill the page with a wonderful color base for painting. I love to look at macro photography,it gives us a new perspective on something we look at everyday. The tiny details that are revealed can be amazing in themselves. Take the item this month to zoom in on something and paint some journal pages. These also meek great do ahead pages for journaling later.

Here are the pages from class, Marilyns is first then Christas double page spread followed by Penny's wonderful pansy and then my page. I added some elements to my page,lines,dots,text box etc. I think I may go in and paint the text box yellow. This is a good place to add your creative text we worked on last month!












- Desiree

Macro Day!

Great Day on Sunday in Desiree's garden painting and enjoying the afternoon with friends. We had a great time learning, laughing and snacking!!! Thanks again Desiree for another fun day!

TEXT CLASS

It was a fun class on playing with text - finally finished mine and realized I don't know how to spell - oh well, another day, another sketch to do.Will have to place a small something over it.   Looking forward to tomorrows class with Macros.

May's Sketch Class

Hi everyone, I am so excited to see all of you this Sunday for our Macro Mania sketch class. We will be working with some awesome macro photos I took! LOL These super close ups make wonderful journaling pages and paintings, taking on an almost abstract feel. They are done loose and wet on wet, should be fun and relaxing. The sketch class is a day after the tour so you will be able to enjoy the gardens too. We have been working so hard to have everything just perfect as they expect 1200 people to attend. I will hopefully have some printed cards for sale and maybe be working on a painting. My garden is called the artists garden and I will be painting with some other artists. I can't wait to enjoy the yard with you on Sunday as we paint and observe nature. I have some fun things to show you also! See you then!

TEXTING

I had fun with this, learning new ways to write my letters and text. I will be experimenting more with this, but I need to get out of my box and let loose.  I signed up for Joanne Sharpe's Class.  Waiting to hear so I can start her classes.  I think it will be lots of FUN!

Aprils Class and more!

We had a great texting class and discussion on artwork and being artists. I shared with everyone my week long workshop experience and here is one of my quick paintings done while I was there. We actually didn't get a lot of painting time. Marianne and Marilyn brought me beautiful flowers from their gardens, I felt like it was my birthday! Thank you so much!
 I had also mentioned that I was taking an online texting class from Joanne Sharpe and some of you were interested in it also so I am posting the link here,http://joannezsharpe.blogspot.com/. This is her blog and you will see the class info on the left where you can sign up etc. Its an online class and is done at your own speed. Text is so much fun and can really add or take away from your journal pages. Taking a bit of time to learn how to make your text more interesting and how to use it on your journal pages will improve the look of your sketchbooks tremendously. Next month we will be going off track just a bit and having our sketch class on May 6th, which is a Sunday from 1-4. I will send a reminder in a few weeks. Enjoy!

Spring Challenge

Front Porch orchids - I have 6 beautiful stalks

Kitchen window with violets and orchid

This is my Spring Challenge painting of my garden daffodils which have been the earliest for me this year.  Don't know why the garden is so slow this year - lilacs are barely blooming, I have one rose open and some iris buds.  We have had a lot of cold weather here in the foothills, as well as frost every morning and had 2 days of snow and ice recently.  My indoor plants are blooming profusely - violets and orchids and a orchid on my front porch is the best ever - I covered it every night the temperature fell and during the snow.