Soul Food Week 7

The lesson for week 7 was about painting a bird using Golden Iridescent Bronze and Gesso. Unfortunately, I don't have that paint, and between being sick and the horrible weather Michigan is having, I decided to just use what I have. I'm sorry to say my poor bird got caught out in the snow!

Soul Food Week 5

I didn't follow the full instructions for week 5's lesson. I did a mixed media seascape sunset instead.

Soul Food Lesson 2

Our second lesson was taught by Gwenn Seemel. It was all about drawing quickly using only a couple of pens. The ideal was to practice drawing without getting all hung up on all the details. I watched her demonstration video last night, and agonized over it ever sense. My inner critic just doesn't want me to do anything! I just told myself to sit down, do it, and don't even think about it. That's what I did, and lo and behold, I did it! :-)

Soul Food Assignment One - Play!

Mystele from Community Thrive (a Ning site) provided us with 3 fantastic videos about just letting go and painting. Mystele paints these fantastic, fun people in an outsider or folk art style. I'm still not comfortable trying to paint a person, so I just played. I went very abstract. :-)