Paint Session with my Dad

Marit — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:48:22 +0000

Days fly by, Summer is over and this first September week started with various weather… a strange combination of beautiful, rather warm hours followed by gray skies and a lot of rain, sometimes on the same day. Yesterday I planned to take the bus to my parents house for my ‘date with dad.’ (I didn’t dare to go on my bike – a 40 minutes bike-ride – because rain was predicted.) Around 10 am the rain came pouring down and my dad called me to say he would come pick me up with the car. We drank coffee first, then set up the easels and unpacked our ‘stuff’ in the barn and by the time we were ready to start painting, the sky was blue and sunshine came in through the big doors. Yay!

We had a lot of fun, and will repeat the paint session in a few weeks as we both are far from finished. Here’s an impression of how I spend my afternoon (it’s not a good photo as the light came in where I stood and it gets darker when you go deeper into the barn… rather difficult to take a photo.)

This painting may not be finished but I do have some finished art journal pages to show you. These Chronicles spreads are from last Summer an it feels like ages ago… well, it almost is ’cause can you believe we are in week 36 already?

The Chronicles of Marit 2015 – Week 29

The Chronicles of Marit 2015 – Week 31
(Week 30 is out for publication so I can’t show you that one yet)

The Chronicles of Marit 2015 – Week 32

There is more that I didn’t show you yet but I’ll leave it with these pages, I don’t want to overfeed you 😉

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Be wild,
be free,
be creative,
set up an easel and paint a picture.

See you next week.

woyww #324 and art journal pages

Marit — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:01:00 +0000

Good morning beautiful ones, and a beautiful morning it is. Blue skies and white clouds… a famous ‘Dutch sky’ like Jacob van Ruisdael used to paint (and many more famous painters.) I can see such a sky right through my window, although it does not show on the photo. The photo is from the work desk and I combined two photos to give a view from left to right (on the far right is my computer, but I cut that off the photo ’cause that’s not really interesting to see.) Here’s how my work desk looks this morning

WOYWW #324

OH MY… did I mess up the canvas yesterday! The ‘lady’ was a cut out image from a magazine (I cut the face out too, so she had a blank ‘face’) I was in doubt if I should paint over it or leave it a photo and collage around it or something. Somehow, I decided to get my paint out… and I don’t like how it looks at all! I cannot go back to the former phase so I will have to work with this. I might even cover it all up.

Same happened on the ‘intuitive canvas’ (I showed you last week.)
It’s not as messed up as the ‘lady canvas’ but I’m not satisfied either…

This canvas may become a repeating object in my posts…

Luckily, I have two art journal pages to show you that I am happy with! Both made last Summer for “The Documented Life Project.”

May 16
May Theme: Touchy Feely (Texture)
Art Challenge: Modeling Paste
Journal Prompt: Rising to the Occasion

I don’t have modeling paste so I had to be inventive. I had a stencil ‘bricks’ and thought of the song “Brick by Brick” (by Racoon.) I mixed gesso, heavy gel medium and sand to create the ‘brick look’ and wowzah, it worked great! Here’s a detail photo.

The ‘intuitive way of painting’ inspired me to try something like it on my next art journal page… here’s the prompt

May 23
May Theme: Touchy Feely (Texture)
Art Challenge: Cheesecloth
Journal Prompt: Say Cheese

and here’s what I made with it.

I love this page. If only I could create something like this on canvas… what is it, that makes me fear the canvas so much? I HAVE to get over that one of these days… I’m working on it sweeties – to be continued.

P.S. Don’t forget about my GIVEAWAY – you have until Friday 10 a.m. CEST to enter.

Marit's Paper World (blog)

Paint Session with my Dad

woyww #324 and art journal pages