DreamLovePaint

If you are an oil painter with your ear to the ground then you already know that all the buzz right now is Dreama Tolle Perry's new online class. Registration ends tonight and class officially kicks off January 23rd.  Everyone is so excited including me. I took her class here is Jacksonville several years back and painted two paintings that I really liked and enjoyed painting. Her methods are fun and she is a great teacher.  Here are the two paintings I painted in the in-person class with her. We'll see how I do in this online class.

Joyful!

During my holiday downtown (yeah right!) I decided to treat myself to Stephanie Ackerman's Bible Journaling Class just to see if it would jump start me back into Bible Journaling. She is precious and her Bible journaling is happy and wonderful and I just had to learn from her. I highly recommend it. Her lettering if fun and doable and you can totally make it your own. Love her!

Lifebook 2016!

On "LIFEBOOK 2016" I will be teaching you how

to draw these Chunky Versals and write the

word that brings you comfort, happiness and joy.

I have many such words!

So if you would like to learn to draw these letterforms 

I will be teaching them in Lifebook 2016!
Also there are many other wonderful teachers scheduled also.

                                                 
                                           Click here to view more details

 Hope to see you there!!

This is Lucy

She just looks like a Lucy to me. I am having so much fun drawing the girls for the upcoming online class. I am even teaching myself a few new things. It's really fun for these girls to emerge as you draw them and each one will have a little personality. Lucy happens to be one that looks you right in the eye.
Most of my girls have a name and the name just pops into my head when I see them. She looks to be about 7 or 8 years old I think. Hi Lucy!

Drawing the Girls

I am starting to film my new online class, "Drawing the Girls."  God willing, it will open the middle of March but then again we know about those best laid plans! It might be April. So far it has been fun brushing up on my drawing and coloring skills for these fun girls.  I drew her today and tried a couple of hair colors for her as well as a few techniques for coloring the faces.  I draw these faces every time I am waiting or anything or listening to something. It's the way I doodle.

Just practicing...

I do know that to be a good teacher of calligraphy I need to be practiced up before I start. It has been interesting for me because my Italic "go to" calligraphy that I use most frequently is a variation so I have had to hunker down and practice the classic Italic shape all over again.  I haven't started filming any classes yet but I think I am getting there. My goal is to teach people the correct letterform and to try to guide them into learning these letterforms with patience, determination and with a critical eye for holding on to always keeping the integrity of the Italic letterform. In other words, learn the rules first---then make it your own.

Calligra-FUN Started Today!!!

I am so excited to get started with the class today!! If any of you who are taking the class need to email me or send a blog comment question that will be just fine--or you can comment me in the ning site. I will be glad to help you in any way!!! 

More Stitch Flowers

Here are two more stitch flowers. I used a watercolor wash background, cut the flower shapes and pasted them on then stitched around the flowers. This is very fun! These are about 6 x 9. I am getting better at changing out my thread in a flash. That's important!  On the top image I think I will write a little flower quote or something in calligraphy---I did leave some room for it. 

Calligra-Fun starts tomorrow!  It will be an ongoing class so anyone can sign up to take the class at any time and view the videos at your leisure as many times as you would like. 

Also, if you are taking the class, please know that you can always leave a comment here and ask me things about your progress or you can email me --or you can leave a question or comment within classroom Calligra-Fun ning site. Let me know if I can help you in any way. Thanks!!!

Filming the Brush Lettering Online Class

I have been pretty busy filming myself for the Brush Lettering online class. I have filmed 3 lessons so far out of the 4. It was quite a learning curve to do this!  The curve included learning how to use the camera, how to set it up, lighting, and iMovie. Many many hours! And I had a real scare because right in the middle of my filming I found out that EK Success is discontinuing these markers!! Yikes! But not to fear, I was contacted through my Youtube from Karetake.com who manufactures these pens. (That was surely a God thing!)--- and upon contacting them I found out that yes---they are still being produced and with rave reviews!  Thank goodness. So there are other places to find these wonderful Zig Brushables Markers.  WHEW! Anyway, just one more lesson to go and it will be in the can!  August 1st is the projected start date since Creative Workshops needs about a month to advertise.