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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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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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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 Drawing Club looked at pointillism in new ways, new sizes and in different media. We drew keys from observation using a variety of tools, then created a landscape from reference that became our own. We practiced relaxing and changing our grip, defining line and creating density. This is the good stuff.
And we are back to red again with our gouache studies-this time, three tomatoes. We brought them all out... reds, pinks, oranges and siennas. Then we mixed to match what we observed. Layering is the magic, but layering is HARD and takes practice. We aren't afraid because we do. 😉 This is the good stuff.
We drew a crowd on Tuesday. Well, not a huge crowd, but we did learn how to see similarities and differences in the human form, then how use them to animate your drawings. We sketched and drew until we started to see our own style. We get smarter with every mark we make. This is the good stuff!
Oh, graphite! The Drawing Club took on the tedious job of building fur texture in a cat portrait. We started by creating the depth, value, shadows and highlights of millions of strands. (At least a million.) It was a lot of work, but without it, you cannot succeed. Practice is the point, after all. This is the good stuff, indeed.
We were a small contingent on Monday as we painted cityscapes in a violet hue. We treated our gouache as a wash, then built layers upon layers as we played with focus and diffusion. It was a relaxing practice and this is definitely the good stuff.
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