This is an exciting new opportunity for me to use my graphic design background, as well as fine art! I'd love to do a custom painting for your farm or business! These signs are light but weatherproof and intricately carved!
I am partnering with Shane Schechinger of NextGen creations to create 3D farm signs! Check out some of the signs that we have work on here on facebook @NextgenCreations19
This is an exciting new opportunity for me to use my graphic design background, as well as fine art! I'd love to do a custom painting for your farm or business! These signs are light but weatherproof and intricately carved!
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I get to give art lessons to a homeschooler! I am so excited! As I sat down to prepare I had to really think about what I want my student to learn... There are all kinds of things to learn, line, composition, negative space, shading, texture.. But The most important thing is to learn HOW TO SEE. Before you train your brain how to translate something from real life to paper, you have to be able to see it, it's form, it's edges, it's texture. In order to do that you have to see with your right brain! If you try to use your left brain to draw something it will end up being representational. (think stick man with potato feet) My oldest child has been blessed with a very strong left brain. In kindergarten the teacher would give him a coloring sheet and he would pick up a crayon swipe it acrossed the paper and say, "I did what you asked, I colored it." I couldn't make sense of most of his childhood drawings until I realized they weren't pictures, they were schematics. He was drawing a blueprint detailing how the world worked! Switching into right brain mode is harder for lefties, but it is possible! First of all you have to convince your left brain to be quiet and stop analyzing everything. There are no perfect circles in nature, or squares, everything is a blob with beautiful edges. Once you have learned to draw blobs the way that you see them, you can draw anything! If you really want to freak a left brainer out take a photo of a famous person and flip it upside down and ask them who it is. It may be harder than you think for them to guess! If you'd like to try switching into Right brain mode, try this excercize at home. Draw a silhouette of a persons face, and as you do name the parts you are drawing in your head. Forehead, nose, chin, etc. Then try to draw the exact shape on the other side of the paper but don't name the parts, just focus on the line as a mirror image. You will end up with the image below of the well known optical illusion of the "face-vase." Notice the tension in your brain as it tries to analyze, and then gives up and goes into a new mode! I am using a book called, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards which is a fascinating look into the mind and is full of lessons that will greatly improve your drawing skills. I am being brave and putting this series out into the gallery! Check it out on my latest virtual gallery tour of my January show. Several of these are textural pieces that need to be touched to be appreciated.. so if you get a chance, swing by the Upper Room gallery above Coffee Girl in Harlan for the full experience! I included a couple of my water lily paintings, which are selling as fast as I can paint them! Watch till the end to get a peek of my 3d textured lavender lily! |
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