I spend the day painting. That hadn't been the plan, but I sneaked into my painting shed this morning and somehow never came out again till it was time for lunch and tea. I'm working on large canvas pad sheets for another class about which more in future and it proved very addictive. Somewhere along the way I left the class instructions behind and simply did whatever I fancied, using all my delectable art supplies, including among much else oil pastels, spray paints, acrylics, stamps, stencils, drawing with water dissolvable pencils, white pens, making a gigantic mess in the process, covering my hands in paints (my clothes too, if I'm honest) and even developed a rubbing injury on my finger which I used to spread the ink out (don't ask me why, I'm awash in brushes!). I also journalled on the page and clearly I was still thinking about my journal quilt from yesterday. I also used up an entire pot of clear gesso. Trip to Hobbycraft has been added to the agenda. This canvas will be cut up in the near future once I go back and check out the exact requirements for the class but needless to say I photographed the sheets (I did 3) extensively to use in the future.
Here are some close-ups. I loved finding all the little details hidden within this one sheet (seen at the top) and discovering some really treasures there.
Roben Marie Smith (whose class it is) produces booklets with details of her art and I can now understand the attraction although in my case I would print them out onto fabric and use them in that way.
It all started with collaging papers onto the canvas pad sheets and you can just glimpse some text paper detail above.
I have tried to do the same with my hand writing, hiding it behind some white gesso and acrylics but letting it come through a bit.
What does the title of this post mean? I was reading Julie Balzer's most recent blog post (you can find it
here) where she mentions the tendency of writing 7 word biographies and of course I could not resist giving it a try and here it is:
artist who listens to her inner voice
That's where the painting and those journal quilts as well as my large quilts come from!
