Two Day Workshops

Bring your materials paints and finished and unfinished  paintings, a lunch and your ideas and photographs for a Workshop on the Elements and Principles of Design, composition and content.
       LOCATION:  The Cabana at Sunny Shores, Serpentine Rd ,off Woodcock Rd. Sequim
       DATES ------   June 17-18  from 10:00 until 3:00  and July 22-23,  10 - 3)
       COST -------- $20.00 a day  (2 days $40.00)  LIMITED to 12 participants
       CONTACT -- Carol Janda  360 452 6356
                               1216 West 5th St Port Angeles  , WA 97363
                               Fees to be paid by June 10


     

Please Join My Blog

I just sent off the press release for my May show in the window at Blue Whole Art Gallery  in Sequim. Some fortunate artist's have a 'wife' to take care if this activity which is such an involved part of an artist's work.  This Blog has helped keep verbal communication working while isolation in the studio occupies the other side of my brain. I used an oil monotype and a watercolor  enhanced with w/c crayon  and the Teaching Buddha shown in  previous blog.
"My goal is to express , exercise teach and test my accumulated ideas and philosophy through the art I make in clay and painting which has been a driving force and pleasure in my life."

Fields Before an Ancient City

Retired 

 



I just finished a 10 week Watercolor Class which reminded me how much I enjoy sharing my idea, teaching and meeting other artists.  I hope in future to do Workshops with selected projects. (seascapes , abstracts, fog,textures etc.) .

Frogs

Perfect for the Art Nouveau Glaze I love, this frog is the first experiment .  It has a rather awkward water container below the lily pad intended to hold water which would  rise to surround the frog and  support  live flowers.  

Getting Ready to Teach

Monday January 28,2013 I will be starting my Watercolor Classes at the Landing Art Gallery in Port Angeles.  I hope to share some of  ideas and activities of the class on the blog with a link it to Face Book.
 The  previous comments about the Seashell value study made me think about getting back to the teaching.
It will be a pleasure to share the things I've studied for years.
    

Watercolor Classes 2013

I'm finally going to restart my watercolor classes. I've rented a great space at the Landing Art Gallery in Port Angeles  which will be set up for the first class on the  28th of January.  I hope to work with all levels on an individual studies approach to the Elements and Principle of Design for any style or subject.  The class room is easy access on the lower level with good parking.  Call 452 6356

Let's Hope the Mayans are Wrong

According to the Mayan Calender Dec 21is supposed to be the end of the world.

 As if we didn't have enough to worry about.

Winter Kale

Winter Kale , watercolor on 300 pound Arches paper  stretched over oil stretcher bars like an oil painting and sealed with acrylic for protection.  Gallery Wrapping is being used more often and works really well on Winter Kale, allowing it breathing room..

                      There will be a drawing to win this piece at Blue Whole December art walk.  

Buddha

                  This  Buddha for my garden represents kindness and calm, a reminder for a busy life.

The Elements and Principles of Design

I am  interested  in the Elements and Principles of Design used in any media. As a potter and painter,I need  criteria to guide the making and critiquing  of my work.  Most of my study of the elements and principles has been done for painting but pottery follows the same ideas in a different media.
     Personal  choice of what to paint or make in clay provides the desire  to do the work.
 Focal point and composition are job-one once something catches my attention.  After starting , maybe thinking about  the work for weeks or even having struggled with an idea through several failures, decisions are made using  the Elements of color, value, shape, line, texture, size and rhythm integrated with the Principles of unity, conflict, dominance,  repetition, balance, harmony, alternation and gradation.

                                                          It's a brain game, the right side is trying to make sense of the left side.

 This small study was done with dominate value , limited complimentary colors, strong line, repeated  rounded shapes in large and small sizes which lead the eye in a rhythmic path supported by the shadow
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 This kind of analysis isn't useful   if there's no chance to make changes especially with watercolor and clay.  Having a method to study and plan is really helpful when it becomes part of the procedure.  

Some 2012 Posts I Lost

The Petunia was in the August show at Blue Whole
along with  Easter Lillies

Celebrate Life

The Landing Art Gallery in Port Angeles will be showing the art of cancer survivor's.
 Oct 1st  thru the 31st with a reception on Oct 6 at 5:00 - 8:00.

This piece was painted on a plastic like paper called yupo using watercolor and metallics in a loose abstract manner. 

A second work on the same type of paper called Dance Aerobics  has that same bright full color effect due to the non absorbent  surface of the paper.

          

Red and Aqua = Purple What?

In efforts to pour watercolor and create a semi abstract painting  the effect of the chemistry of paint was strikingly not what I expected.  Red and green are supposed to mix grays but this lovely purple is much more appealing.

What Happened?

Some how all of the 2012 blogs have been lost, can't figure out why?

Constellations

Glazed color with the depth of many layers of paint and the shifting of the plate enrich this suggestion of the sky at night .

Oil Monotypes

My oil monotypes where produced on an Ettan Press using plexiglass bevel edge plates with oil paint. The plate is coated with a thin skin of color which is transferred in the reverse to the paper. Additional layers of color , texture and design create a depth of glazing, achieving a painting unique to this process. Although these originals are called mono(one)prints, there may be a ghost print made if enough oil paint is left from the first run.

Masking with templates, plant material, brayer marks , wiping out ,over painting ,oil pastel,and using varied sizes of plates make this process thoughtful, creative and challenging.

Monotypes have that magic of surprise when they are pulled from the plate each time added elements change the color and design.

Featured Artist Show at Blue Whole

My Featured Artist Show for August at Blue Whole is all oil monotype except for one watercolor, Remembering Georgia.

Oil monotypes to be posted

Small Sculptured Continers

After painting the Blue Poppy watercolor,working with clay to sculpt blue poppy petals with the center stamens amd pistils as lids. These are small, not much larger than the actual flower.
This lead to a waterlily pad, rose petal and several other flower sculptures.

Kalaloch Beach

I like to try to capture the movement, weather and atmosphere of a place. I found this composition especially interesting, full of triangles and directional lines which expressed Kalaloch's long beach with the wind pushing the clouds.

This is one of my favorite watercolors partly for the place but also for the pleasure I find in "revisiting "it by painting the scene as nature arranges and rearranges land and sea.. Capturing the feelings of the place is a challenge to which watercolor is well suited.

Glazed Gestural Sculpture

Drapery clay figure 9 inches tall

Stoneware Art

The "Fire Head Ladies" vases are 11 and 9 inches tall with the art nouveau glaze over underglaze and stains mixed with the glaze.

Clicking the picture to enlarge for a better view.