tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65564977742848834212024-03-13T07:48:55.222-07:00claythingsplus by Carol JandaArtist Carol Janda shares her pottery, watercolor and other artwork here, showing various steps in her artistic process from inspiration to execution.Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-67084338704493835892021-08-19T19:47:00.001-07:002021-08-19T19:47:55.716-07:00<h1 style="text-align: left;">I got away from the Blog for a while ..hope I'm back but things don't look quite the same...😉 </h1><h1 style="text-align: left;">I needed to try something different just for fun.</h1><h1 style="text-align: left;">These are oil painting with cold wax medium which helps oil to have a nice creamy consistence. It also drys quickly and may not need to be varnished . I really like the intensity of color. Painted over and breaking thru the surface , scratching back and repainting work well with the wax.</h1><div><br /></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sqdDixkDthc/YR8Ugll4GwI/AAAAAAAAXGY/ZcTZcltYhmQznn2pmHh9bgQ9Ow9cLy18ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN4555.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sqdDixkDthc/YR8Ugll4GwI/AAAAAAAAXGY/ZcTZcltYhmQznn2pmHh9bgQ9Ow9cLy18ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN4555.JPG" width="320" /></a></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h1><div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-47789385406348116582019-12-11T11:45:00.000-08:002019-12-11T11:45:14.699-08:00Small Geese VasesI enjoyed making the little potter's wheel vases with hand sculpted geese.The pieces had to be refired due to kiln problems which caused the glaze to ran off the the pieces . It made the waterlily platter appear to have water pooled where the glaze ran to the center.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-44561051370026250832019-04-29T10:21:00.000-07:002019-04-29T10:21:51.519-07:00May 2019 Blue Whole Art Gallery The pottery is cooked and the paintings are painted ..time to show lots of pieces in the<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-28533462890226670732019-04-27T14:28:00.000-07:002019-04-27T14:28:42.618-07:00NEW POTTERY FOR MAYSmall changes in clay, glaze or placement in the kiln can have interesting effects. Recent pieces for my Blue Whole Gallery Show in May turned out well, especially my little hand sculpted geese.<br />
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Sequim Washington has beautiful lavender fields and farms that preserve the farm land and round -abouts which help the traffic flow.... . Good Title<br />
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Painting a sunny watercolor on<br />
a gray day cheers me right up, come in out of the wet and cold.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-56916599628232571172018-03-02T08:52:00.001-08:002018-03-02T08:52:40.150-08:00Salmon Run Coho My work has always involved the Elements and Principles of Designs in ways that are very hard to define since art really isn't a science and trying to manipulate it into an orderly process can be a creativity killer.<br />
Value,color, line, shape, direction, size and texture are art's tools not the medium and materials .<br />
Even an artist can't have them all at one time in one painting or piece of pottery or a clothes or house or whatever .So the trick is to decide what to use to best express the needs of a picture.<br />
In <b>Salmon Run</b> shape and direction work with color and texture to create the depth and flow of water and repetition of shapes. It also is an effort to have the viewer look beyond the surface, getting past the white riffles to see the shallow depth and clarity of the water and enjoy the complimentary purple /yellow colors.<br />
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This painting can be viewed horizontally or vertically. As vertical it has a different feeling of space and atmosphere,depth and distance, as opposed to the orchestra and the audience.</div>
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<b> Music of the Spheres</b> (watercolor gouache and acrylic 12x18 on watercolor paper)<br />
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It began as a study of movement ,line and color, using a limited palette of complimentary color. When my friends responded they all liked this horizontal view which looked like a stage or amphitheater. Once it is viewed one way, it's interesting to accept the changed feeling the atmospheric view.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-85853567819357658592017-09-23T17:37:00.000-07:002017-09-23T17:37:11.292-07:00Abstract Mixed MediaExperimentation is always interesting sometimes frustrating and often leaves me wondering what<br />
others see in my abstract pieces. Letting images just happen from a feeling or concept challenges that part of me that says I need to know what I'm doing. I've always loved realistic landscape and flowers for the pleasure of being accurate, reproducing a better than photographic aliveness , pointing out what I like about the subject.<br />
I called this Morning Meditation, it had that half awake quietness before the day starts, things out of focus, blurry and sleepy. .<br />
Acrylic, gouache and watercolor on watercolor paper. 15x21"<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-39826631429905848632017-09-10T10:05:00.000-07:002017-09-10T10:05:45.658-07:00Prints of the Peninsula <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over many years of hiking , wondering and even flying I have collected many scenes of the Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park.<br />
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Many of these original watercolors have sold but I have reproduced them as prints and cards using a printer which has color fast inks. Giclee' ,to spray, is the term used to indicate the color fastness of inks in modern printers now available to artists.<br />
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This control of the reproductions allows the artist to represent the original accurately at very reasonable cost.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-22301036608111233302017-07-06T14:21:00.001-07:002017-07-06T14:21:56.608-07:00Bird Ladies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A previous blog showed the entire group from last winter, each lady has her own personality with birds ,flowers or a small vase built in.<br />
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-26728991427142611012017-05-30T08:08:00.001-07:002017-05-30T08:08:02.133-07:00Charcoal Float Drawing <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Powdered charcoal on water color paper enhanced by a bit of tan and organized by a few black directional lines and very subtle value changes, expressed the icy puddles in my back alley. The mystery of the orange is a cherry tree leaf but I hope it causes the eye to ask a question and explore the rest of the design. I always wanted to paint something with that wonderful color of the fall cherry tree leaves.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-57456662469630602842017-04-26T10:51:00.000-07:002017-04-26T10:51:56.427-07:00NEW CLAY WORK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My ladies are ready for the Blue Whole Show this May.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-30139729473378471802017-04-09T13:18:00.000-07:002017-04-09T13:18:57.778-07:00Show at Blue Whole in MayFor the news release I expressed how lucky I am to have the energy and creative drive to enjoy painting and pottery using the things I've studied for years. The study has always been part of the pleasure, bringing up challenges and things to try. Art isn't just one thing, it sort of is everything,and it's my opportunity to know and show myself.<br />
Some of the new work is shown on past blogs, hope you will take a look. Thanks<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-20066459447333991872017-03-13T15:27:00.000-07:002017-03-13T15:27:21.552-07:00Fog and Spider Web<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-25012900530995983822017-02-18T18:20:00.001-08:002017-02-18T18:26:42.601-08:00Peninsula CreekWatercolors has a special ability to capture the mood of a place, to express the its feel , the shimmer of water and the dappling of shadowed light , the mood of color and its quietness. <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-8735810326988091402017-02-04T14:57:00.001-08:002017-02-04T14:57:44.089-08:00Age Old Challenge in Old Age As I get older I'm realizing the value of things I used to take for granted, like knowing exactly the right word. I just finished three 6x8 inch value studies of rock carnes, They captured that special feeling of satisfaction which is such a pleasure when a painting completely absorbs me.<br />
I had been studying abstract work for the last couple years, trying to apply my knowledge of watercolor and the elements and principles of design. In a sense all art is abstract and there is no set formula for what works. Kindness, the beauty of nature and simple things can express so much.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-74233889747408401292016-12-29T07:54:00.002-08:002016-12-29T08:03:31.189-08:00The Olympic Peninsula, Washington State USA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Watercolor paintings of Olympic National Park, Most have been sold and are available as Glicee' prints at 11x14 and 16x 20 with mat and backing </div>
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Kalaloch Beach, First Beach at LaPush, Ruby Beach (looking south)and </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-27347685551323503742016-09-05T17:19:00.001-07:002016-09-05T17:19:50.683-07:00New Pottery for October Window at Blue Whole Art GalleryGetting pottery ready for a show is a big project<br />
since there are several steps, make the piece- bisque fire it,<br />
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These are some of the earlier single cats made on the potters wheel</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556497774284883421.post-44664851393980727682016-06-28T06:52:00.000-07:002016-06-28T06:52:00.544-07:00Oil Painting on Oil Monotype Backgrounds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oil monotypes lend themselves to interesting textures and color mixes which can be used as the beginning of a more realistic painting. Since the monotype has a<br />
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dry smooth surface they work very well.<br />
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The Iris is an example of several plate runs in the warm tone background a second smaller plate run which has some abstract hand painted areas with the Iris on the third"layer".<br />
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As much as I love watercolor it's nice to challenge myself with oils.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Carol Janda is a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She shows her paintings and pottery at the Waterfront Art Gallery in Port Angeles and Blue Whole Art Gallery in Sequim.</div>Carol Jandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308243999103189443noreply@blogger.com0