A Heart For Art

As many of you know, I LOVE color!!  When Carla Sonheim assigned a self-portrait for her year-long class, I couldn’t resist creating this paper collage of myself:

I realize it is MORE than just a self-portrait but after I saw a video about the Seattle artist, Kelly Lyles,  I decided to go WILD with color and patterns.

Perhaps you have heard of Kelly Lyles for her art cars?  Well, she also likes to dress, very colorfully!  😉

I hope to start wearing clothes with more color and patterns and care less about what others think!  How about you?  Do you like to dress conservatively or just have FUN?

Cheers!  🙂

A Sketch of Me

So a guy walks into a bar…  This is the beginning of a joke my hubby told me to make me smile for this photo – I am wearing a shirt my good friend Jodi at Life In Between gave me from Mars, PA:

As you can see, it made me laugh…

So I tried to create a drawing of myself – Modigliani style of course – since today is self portrait day!

 Teresa at One Good Thing started this day – on the 25th of each month for creating a self portrait for those of us who want to participate at WordPress.

I haven’t participated much because well, I feel like I’m not very good at self portraits.  But after a glass or two of wine, I thought what the heck!

Hope I give you a smile today and help YOU try something new in art!

Happy Creating!  🙂

Color Me Tropical!

Many of you know that I like to take online art classes.  They challenge me to “think outside the paint box.”  A recent assignment from Lynn Whipple in “The Year of The Spark” which is a year long creativity class co-taught with Carla Sonheim – was to create a self-portrait using a limited palette.

I like bright colors!  Can you tell?

I started my self-portrait by making a couple of quick sketches.

I then decided on my 5 colors for my limited palette.  They have a tropical feel, don’t you think?

I then drew myself with a black sharpie pen on a 8×10 inch canvas board.

I quickly painted using Golden fluid acrylics mixed with gloss medium.  I did this in about 5 minutes so that I wouldn’t over think it.

It was really fun!  I don’t know how much it looks like me but it does show my cheerful personality!  🙂

I challenge you to create a self-portrait with a limited color palette!  You may be surprised!

“The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”  – Coco Chanel

Happy Painting!  🙂