Thirteenth Blogiversary!

Macarons  digital image

My first blog post, January 26, 2008
was not very interesting ... not one picture!

Reading it, the memories of that first (& only) digital art class 

while attending UAS (U of Alaska Southeast) are flooding back.

... and all these years later, I am interested in

learning about digital art. I think it could help me design

my painting compositions. 

It will not take away my love of actual painting, drawing 

using real pencils, pastel or charcoal, I do know that!

Tangerines
(recent digital art that i am attempting to learn)

Above is my work from a tutorial by a with-it gal named Lisa Bardot.
She conducts her tutorials on her YouTube channel and
is very fast and really good with her digital illustrations.
When she slows down, she is a very good teacher. I need s-l-o-w when I am learning a massively complex thing like Procreate.

So, that first Digital Art Class 13 years ago, mostly taught Photoshop (gaaak)

but got me started to explore more art, 

and I specifically targeted painting. 

I definitely didn't learn as much as I wanted in that class, 

but it was the jumping off point for this blog and

that is a good thing.

During this pandemic, I did do a bit of painting and blogging 

but lately have had a dry spell (my last post was nearly 2 months ago). 

That's ok, it happens. It takes time and energy to blog 

and there is certainly time, but no energy for it.

But I hope to get back to it with more consistency and today is a great day to begin.

I guess kind of where I left off for unfinished paintings was my DOR series. 

Two DOR paintings are almost finished and one is sitting there in my mind, ready to begin.

(That link takes you to the first post about the series, with unfinished progress shots.) 

I would like to take you through more of my painting process

for this first piece,

so here is more progress since the Dec 3 post:

Most of the painting takes place flat on a table.

There are layers going on and some

scraped off.

This was a stencil shape I tried.

This is fairly close to how it will look in finished form.

If you have questions about the CWM (cold wax medium) 

let me know and I will try to answer to the best of my ability. 

I have not been working in cold wax for long, 

so I am experimenting all the time with it.

🎵Happy Blogiversary to me🎵

and

I hope you are all safe and healthy and thinking about getting 

your vaccinations one of these days!

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