Letting Go-Mixed Media

This is another project from Jeanne Oliver's class "Creatively Made" on her ning social site. It's the last one from this class, and I used her templates for the bird and hands.

My background on an un-stretched piece of primed canvas, probably about 14" square, using various media effects...

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I don't know what I did for this pic to go left, but I can' t get it go back to center. Anyway, the hands and bird have been collaged onto the background...

Some paint added here and there, plus I learned how to stamp on metal to add words to my projects, which I love. Now I need some different sets of letters ...

I added some writing to the background, kind of stream of consciousness, with pencils and white pen...

Close up of background with writing...

The piece turned out a little too somber and dark for me. I used the ads section of an old newspaper torn into pieces for the hands, and because there was a lot of black ink in the paper, they wound up kind of a weird color with the glaze. I usually like things a bit more light and colorful, and I could always go back and change things, but, for now, I'm calling it done and moving on. It's living in my bedroom, thumb tacked to the door, where it's the last thing I see before I go to sleep and the first thing I see when I wake up. My friend thought it was beautiful and I kind of like it myself. :)

I'm now working on another class that follows along after this one, called "The Journey of Letting Go", also with Jeanne.

Learn something new every day! It's an awesome way to live! Happy Arting! :)

Marks All Pencil Figure

Another piece inspired by the Creatively Made class. I did this one on an 8"x10" mixed media board that I had left over from another class. Collaged and gessoed over here.

I'd like to point out that I do not necessarily follow the teacher's procedures on my attempts at creating art. I often stray off onto my own version, because I could not copy the teacher, even if I wanted to. :) Drips and runs added here...

Some pan pastels rubbed in and I used a magazine image to go by to draw the figure in with a black marks all pencil. I liked her pose and her hat, although neither resembles the magazine image a whole lot...

I painted titan buff acrylic strips, which is certainly not what the teacher did, because I forgot to do what she did. Anyway, I wrote, "Be as kind to yourself as you can be," on two of the spaces in pencil and drew circles on the top one. I don't always know why I do things, but it just seemed right at the time. More touches added with the pencil and a white gel pen.

It still looked a little plain, so I cut out the hearts from some scrapbooking paper and added them. Once again, the colors are really a little brighter than it shows here. I'm going to have to learn to do better photographs!

Not one of my favorite pieces, but I like her okay, and I learned some things, which is the important part. :)