Happy Valentines Day!!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentines Day!  Here is  Christa's homework assignment from last month, I thought it was perfect for our blog!

Valentine still life

Learned so much from Desiree today I actually found shadows and I could see them and paint them WOW what an epiphany Thanks Teacher and friends
The first picture is of the still life and an uncompleted picture the second picture is my finished project
Looking for my project the Twinkie anybody have one out there
I am looking forward to next month thanks for all the knowledge everybody

February's Sweets Sketch Class!

Hi everyone, wow, we had a great class today. What can be more fun than painting sweets and food!? Everyone brought some sort of yummy sweets so we had cookies and candy to choose from in wonderful red and pink Valentines colors. We discussed painting textures, colors and what makes a good composition. Everyone set up their own edible still life and did a wonderful job capturing all the wonderful  textures, colors and shadows before eating their setups!  I think Tina had many break throughs in how she was seeing things which is awesome! After we finished up our cookie plates we did some quick loose rose paintings, no sketching ahead of time, just paint to paper and go. These are tons of fun and you can make lots of  them for cards, Valentine Cards, tags or anything else you can think up.

 Next month we will be painting shoes! Bring your favorite shoe, is it a high heel, boot, tennis shoe? What every you love in your closet bring to class so I don't have to make you take one of your shoes off!  This month our homework challenge will be to paint your purse, bring your homework and win a gift. Tina, your homework is different and is what we discussed today regarding your ding dongs! LOL  Happy February and don't forget to paint or sketch. Remember it doesn't matter what we are painting or sketching, everything is a lesson and you can learn something every time you pick up your brush.

Catchup for Christa

Christa asked me to post a few of her last class projects, well I told Christa I was posting her past class projects since she hasn't had time to post them.  This first one is her wonderful bird from last months bird class, great job Christa! I love the textured background and the wonderful bird colors, a great painting using complimentary colors!

Then this month we did Sweets! Everyone brought something sweet to paint and sketch.  Here is Christa's wonderful cookie painting.  I am unable to post her roses since my picture turned out blurry, sorry!

Great job Christa!

Valentine Roses

Had a fun class doing Valentines themes.

A truly sweet class

In todays class we painted sweet treats, it was hard to wait until we were finished before eating the cookies!

Postcard Valentine

Derisee showed us how to make a postcard we did this in a few minutes cool huh