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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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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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events

the bosser and the teller

14July2020by k.

My friend, Hazel, came to help me create a sidewalk mandala in front of greenwater. We kept our distance by working opposite each other in a kind of dance around […]

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action!

the women who brought me here

8March2018by k.

I am in the midst of a project that is part of my ongoing study of the women in my family. I’ve been doing this work for several years now […]

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The focus for Drawing Club was capturing negative space. This involves seeing it first. Understanding the value of negative space is essential to an art practice, but it isn't the flashiest study. We started by warming up with white media on black, then moved to drawing the negative space only. It's a brain bender, but it is the good stuff.
On Monday we painted starscapes while learning a variety of useful techniques. We blotted, mottled, sprinkled and lifted. There was so much success-even when we doubted ourselves. Like the astronauts say, "It's a long journey to the next galaxy." This is the good stuff.
The Drawing Club fearlessly tackled the challenge of glass objects on Tuesday. We concentrated, chose our tools and stuck with it until our subject emerged from the page. Looking for dark and medium tones beyond the highlights is the hard part. But we're fearless because this is the good stuff.
We painted blues on Monday-the blues of the sea! We practiced our opacity, our mixes and our brush strokes. Though the lessons are simple, the work is hard. And yet, magic still happens! This is such good stuff, really.
What an amazing day for Porch Fest! 😎 Thank you for playing at the garage. We love to host this community event!
It was a big night for the Drawing Club! We practiced looking at landscapes and orienting ourselves to the horizon line, background and foreground. We learned a new form of perspective, then used it to depict reflections in water and ice. We are drawing environments in graphite and chalk, day and night, getting better all the time. This is the good, atmospheric stuff.
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