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the forest floor

15January2023by k. 3 Comments

In the summer of 2022, I began a community mural project with Woodland Centers, a mental health facility based in Willmar, MN. They wanted to animate a retaining wall and […]

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five huge fish

1November2022by k. 1 Comment

A while back, when I was hanging with my idols (previous blog post), Mary Wohnoutka and Sandy Saulsbury, this is what we thought up: A huge fish mural on a […]

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action!, projects

hanging with my idols

5February2022by k. 1 Comment

I am lucky because on any given day I could run into one of these gals at an event, a meeting or walking down the street. They are Mary and […]

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projects

it’s granular

27January2022by k. Leave a comment

We are back at our weekly practice after a refreshing holiday break, and I tell ya — it feels great! I have a new attitude, more energy and some clever […]

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workshops

zoom in the room

25June2021by k. 2 Comments

Though many people say they are “all done” with online gatherings, the greenwater gang met friends from other places as we continued our practice on Zoom in 2020. We have […]

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hellstrip = community

17May2021by k. 3 Comments

If you pass by greenwater on any given day and observed the parkway space along Main Street, you might feel sorry for me. You might think that those weeds, stones […]

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stuff happens here

lemonade

31December2020by k. Leave a comment

I’ve just posted my Monday and Tuesday offerings for the month of January and I find myself excited for the continued practice and intentional camaraderie of these evenings. I’d never […]

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observations

so the learning sticks

9December2020by k. 2 Comments

We worked in washes this week, with trees as our subject matter. We are learning about watercolor and gouache on Mondays, ink and watercolor on Tuesdays. We are warming up, […]

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workshops

mixing, blending and escaping

1December2020by k. Leave a comment

This past November was a tough one for me and many others. But on Monday and Tuesday evenings, I was able to escape into a session of mixing color or […]

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workshops

the sun in our eyes

4August2020by k.

The greenwater cohort has been taking advantage of a string of lovely Tuesdays to sit outside with some distance between us. We have been learning to use some of the […]

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Oh, illustration is hard, but it does allow our individual personalities to show! We looked at the interactive work of UK artist, Alexandra Ball (@miss_bally_ball) to inspire our practice. We used a giraffe and a bird as our subjects, then created an interaction. It was one of our most surprising reveals yet-we also saw a mouse and a dragon! This is such good stuff.
We continued our study in pen & and ink and added light washes to achieve a wider range of tone on a Trumpeter Swan. Depicting the details of a white bird requires patience and the slow work of building texture. We are focused on the good stuff.
This week, our painting practice was inspired by the graphic design and dimensional lettering work of Columbian artist, Saskia Bueno (@sasbu.letters). Check out her beautiful work! We practiced building our own letterforms, then added flowers, vines and other elements to our compositions. We are amazing at the good stuff.
This week, we continued our pen and ink practice by drawing dogs on a walk. We practiced managing values over a field, then built value scales to show ourselves how powerful we are with just line as our tool. I realized too late that my pen was still loaded with magenta ink. No matter the color, we are still working on the good stuff.
We're starting a new experience in drawing club-getting to know pen & ink. As any art medium, there is plenty to learn about the tools, the variations, and how to use each kind. We talked through it all, and then we set about drawing. It is hard to let go of our nerves, fear and expectations, but the quiet time spent drawing is where the good stuff is.
Monday found us practicing character development by starting simple. We used my old mantra, "Make ten, choose the best," as we made several different attempts at a character. Once we had introduced ourselves properly to our own fox, we painted her. This is scary at the starting line, but we are not afraid. This is the good stuff.
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