Which 5 art related things did you do last week?

[Nerys]

My 5 art related things I did last week.

Sunday afternoon paint with my new icy colors watercolors.

Sketchbook 12 x 12 cm , painted pages watercolors, gouache, acrylics, mixed media.

Watched some Arte.tv for landscape inspiration.

Looked up paintings online, see ArtProf youtube video.

Sort out acrylics paint tubes see what I have and thinking about maybe some new colors.

 

[snoball]

Last week I worked some on my pencil commission and 4 times I thought about it when I was busy doing something else.

 

[StephKunze]

- Worked on a butterfly drawing
- Worked on a bunny drawing
- Matted and framed an owl drawing for long time colleague who is buying it
- Partner showed me his in-progress wood carvings
- Updated art blog

Love this question!

 

[OliveOyl]

1. Read “All Fours” by Miranda July (film director, screenwriter, actress and author) about a semi-famous artist who decides to drive cross-country. A sexual awakening ensues. Recommended reading because it was fantastic!

2. Got accepted into a show called “Women’s Work 2025” at a local gallery. It was 40 artists out of 600 applicants and they chose a painting of an ancient Japanese fertility goddess with googly eyes and strange boobs. She’s posted around here somewhere. Yay me.

3. Am working on a large canvas about immigrants (yep!) and I wanted to put some old timey landscape behind them so I’m copying prints of olde Quebec and Sicily. I am sooooooo not a landscape painter so it’s a bit of a challenge. Fingers crossed.

4. The front yard plants got their first haircut and they look like a newly shorn poodle…bald and awkward! He (landscaper) also rearranged the river rock “trails.” (We all have rock yards out here in NM…no grass). I bought 3 ceramic pots waiting for their ornamental grasses, soon to come. This is all kind of artsy, right?

That’s all I got.
And it was stretching a bit to get there.

 

[bethany]

* put final (maybe) touches on an oil portrait of my grandson and son in law
* went to life drawing Sunday night
* sorted out watercolours and other materials ready for my (adult) student
* watched some watercolour videos for ideas
* culled some drawing materials that are past their use-by

Thanks for asking!

 

[stevenD]

Created new Art
Investigated getting a Website made
Bought new materials
Watched YouTube- Art-related videos (3)
Finalized art for printing

 

[Marksmomagain]

I'm getting a new bike (an ebike). I am going to fit it up w my bike trailer and use it for plein-airing (like I did w my old bike).

 

[Donna T]

It's fun seeing what all of you have been up to.

* ripped out articles from art magazines and so I can keep the useful ones and let the rest go
* attempted to paint a cow from a photo reference and realized how hard it is to paint cows
* thought about organizing some sort of informal drawing activity with the neighbor kids when it warms up
*picked up a free framed print only to realize the frame is plastic and the mat is thin, cheap and unusable. Lesson learned.
* made four chickens that I stuffed with rice to become little beanbags for kids. Fine art! haha

 

[Chaithram]

Half way through my acrylic canvas painting.
Started botanical watercolor.
Read one chapter a day from different art books.
Completed art and craft mini projects with grand kids on weekends.
Interesting to read other artists' activities.
Thanks.

 

[Terri]

I'm currently playing around with mounting some transparent (gel medium) image transfers over a painted canvas. A idea that may or may not work. Haven't had a lot of time to play with it.

I also regularly clean cat hair off the drafting table. Hey, it gets me in there.