4-7-2024 Laurier Sculpture Park

Today we visited the

Laurier Sculpture Park in St. Louis MO

before heading down to Cape Girardeau MO

to see the eclipse tomorrow.

What a cool place!

These sculptures were massive!

4-6-2024 Obscurity and Oddities...

We went to this show in downtown St. Louis...

It was more fun watching all the people in costumes

than it was looking at the displays and vendors.

We felt out of place because we did NOT dress up!

4-4-2024 Another Sock...Girl on Sofa...

Finished knitting another sock... 

#letsmakeart #sketchaday #letsfaceit2024 #week7

#girlonsofa #rosecameroninspired

and here's the start of my next painting...

and finished for now...

reference photo...Alice Alinari-Unsplash...

4-3-2024 Weeping Willow...Liminal Forest...More Snow...

#letsmakeart #letsgomakeart #landscapeworkbook 

#weepingwillow #sarahcrayinspired

This painting was a hot mess!!!

I tried following the instructions

and this is what I got! Yikes!

I'm going to try again using my own techniques

and see if I can do better than this.

I also got a new deck of cards...

MJ Cullinane's "Liminal Forest".

I can't wait to spend some time in this deck!

The artwork is so beautiful and inspiring.

And Old Man Winter is still trying to have his way...

4-2-2024 Scrub Oak...Loomis Cumberbatch...

#letsmakeart #letsgomakeart 

#scruboak #landscapeworkbook 

#sarahcrayinspired

practicing more trees for landscape paintings...

#letsmakeart #sketchaday #loomismethod 

#sherlockholmes #benedictcumberbatch

Still practicing sketching faces using the Loomis Method...

4-1-2024 Borracho...Arpa...Corazón...Sandía...

#letsmakeart #sketchaday #loteria 

#25_ElBorracho #26_ElArpa #27_ElCorazon #28_LaSandia

3-31-2024 Self Care...

#letsmakeart Esketchaday 

#lifebook2022 #week42 

#AndreaGomollinspired

#selfcare

3-30-2024 Maple Tree...Loomis Tudyk...

#letsmakeart #sketchaday 

#letsgomakeart #landscapeworkbook 

#mapletree #sarahcrayinspired

Practicing painting trees for landscape paintings...

And practicing sketching faces using the Loomis method...

last night I tried sketching Alan T. while watching 'Resident Alien.'

reference photo...

3-29-2024 Portrait With A Cat...New Bed

#letsmakeart #sketchaday 

#letsfaceit2024 #week13 

#kerstinsagerinspired #portraitwithacat

I'm embarrassed to post my lesson this week. 

I do not have oil paints or the app the the teacher used, 

so I just used the acrylics I have, and the normal 'grid system'. 

For the life of me I could not get my face to smile, 

or look like a child. Sigh.

I also added some outlining at the end of it all.

And, we got a new bed yesterday!

A "Smart Bed" that comes with a "User Guide."

Hope I'm smart enough to sleep in it!!!

3-28-2024 Mess to Magic...

This lesson turned out to be 

more like

"Mess to an even BIGGER Mess!"Ha!

#lifebook2024 #week13 

#rachelchristopoulosinspired #messtomagic 

#cookbookartjournal

3-27-2024 Sea Treasures By the Light of the Silvery Moon...

#letsmakeart 

#lifebook2024 #week13 #seatreasures 

#tamarasagathevan #tamarasagathevaninspired 

#bythelightofthesilverymoon #cookbookartjournal

Cutting out little bits and pieces, 

and gluing them, 

is not my cup of tea, 

but gave it a try anyway 

and did the bare minimum to finish the lesson...

had a lot of trouble getting the tape to stick 

to the black gesso and silver paint, 

so tried glue, and that didn't work very well either. 

I think next time I'll just paint the scene. 

But, this lesson definitely got me 

out of my comfort zone, so...good deal.

3-26-2024 #24_El Cotorro...

#letsmakeart @sketchaday 

#loteria #24_elcotorro