Artful Sunday....

I love the times that you don't plan and just do...

   Sunday was one of those days.  It was my only day off and my oldest was home for the weekend from college, my bestie had the day off too and we sat down to do a little "art".  
   
   As you know, I am in Tam's "Art, Heart and Healing Class" and the project that I am on is week 2-part 1.  We had to get a picture of ourselves when we were about 3 years old and photocopy it on transparency paper and transfer it into a page in a board book.  We had to imagine ourselves at that age and what we would wish for that child to have in their life.  It seemed hard to do...until...I started and I couldn't stop.  Tam said that even if what we wished for didn't happen that its ok.  This project was so healing and fun to do.  

    It is tricky doing a transfer...but it is like magic.  We used "Golden's Gel Medium (Gloss)" and put a thick layer on the gessoed page and put the transparency (rough side down) and rubbed it with our hands and a credit card and peeled it off gently, the scratch marks are from me pushing to hard on the credit card and probably not being patient enough and peeling it off prematurely, but I lucked out.  It worked.  It doesn't always work out that well.  I ran out of ink on my printer when I printed Jackie's picture and she wasn't happy with her transfer, I think it turned out good, here is her first attempt....

 Watching her do her process was fun, she has such a neat style.  Very bold and daring, just like in life.  Lol.

   This is my daughters art.  She didn't do the board book thing, but after watching us she now wants to do it but that will be another day.  Here is what she was working on....

    She loves bright colors reminds me of her personality.  She never seems happy about her art but it always turns out beautifully.  I am very proud of her.  Here is her almost finished piece... 

   This is my second or adjacent page.  I used my Neocolors; salmon, pink, light ochre and light teal.  Then I brayered on white acrylic paint to tone it down.  I printed out my "wishes" and cut them out and glued them on to the page and outlined them with my graphite pencil and did some swirlies to match up with the other page.

    And here is Jackie's finished page....she was much happier with her second attempt.  I like both but I do think having full ink in your printer is the key.  Sorry Jac.

      
   Now for the second part of the class we are drawing whimsical people.  We have to think back to a childhood trauma and draw what we would have liked to happen.  Jackie and I have ours figured out but I am happy to say that my daughter said to me "Mom what should I draw...I don't have any childhood trauma?"  That made my day... wow.  Of course I told her she has childhood trauma...we all do.  Tune in next week for the rest of the story.

"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."   Arthur Koestler