Spots of Color Day 11

Day 11 of 30 Paintings in 30 Days by Leslie Saeta

I am really looking forward to taking Trisha Adam's workshop here in Jacksonville next month. I love how she uses color. This is a painting inspired from one of her paintings that I painted last night after studying her paintings and trying to figure out her technique.  So glad I will be able to learn from her soon!

Happy Earth Day--one day late

Just wanted to remind anyone who might be new to my blog about my Calligra-FUN class to learn to write like this using brush markers. I have been so encouraged that all of my 136 students have been pleased with the class and had fun!!! They all did such wonderful work and it made me so very happy to see that the students really could achieve great success with this type of letterform after taking the class---and during! I also have an Italic Calligraphy class if you want to learn a classic calligraphy letterform that will get you on the right track for calligraphy.

Lettering with these markers is very addicting and you can doodle and play and write in your journal and it just...makes you happy! It's my therapy!

And...here I am in the pants

I fly by the seat of my pants sometimes when I create art!

Online Calligra-FUN class!

Gail from Creative Workshops had gotten all of my information up for my upcoming class which will start on July 22nd.  I have finished all the 5 lessons which are anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes long. 

Lesson 1: Getting to know your Pens and what fun things they will do.

Lesson 2: Learning the Lower Case Alphabet--calligraphy style!

Lesson 3:  Learning the Upper Case Alphabet--Calligraphy style

Lesson 4-  Learning Fun variations with the letterforms and other fun stuff;ribbon, trees,all kinds of flowers

Lesson 5:  Embellishing Words and painting flowers in flowers pots , envelopes and more fun stuff

Plus lots of handouts and help sheets

The cost is $45

You can watch the videos at your leisure and in your own time. You will have a password and can watch then as much as you want.

Hope you can join me for some CALLIGRA--FUN!!

MAKE A WISH

This is painted on 11x 14 Ampersand Artist Panel for Oil and Acrylics.

I want to fine more of these surfaces. It is a very nice board with 1 1/2 inch sides. Really nice surface for the acrylics. I actually I had on my gloves and put the paint on with my fingers to get texture. Then I just started adding stuff---punchanella, stamps, stencils, more paint. I painted the girl on 140 lb watercolor paper with acrylic and pasted her on. Her dress is collaged with tissue paper. I tried to darken around the edges so she wouldn't look so much like she was collaged on. I think it is ok--you can't really tell unless you really look up close. Then I held my breath and wrote the lettering with white gouache with a nib. It worked great. I will spray it with varnish to adhere everything. I like her freckles.

POPPIES Again---BUT WITH GESSO