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night watchman

20June2012by k. Leave a comment

My pal Naomi came over today with a really special surprise. She brought me a NIGHT WATCHMAN for greenwater. He is so funny. Poor guy has an ache in his […]

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action!

i know where waldo is

19June2012by k. Leave a comment

You think I’m kidding, but all I have to do to answer age-old questions it to look out my office window. it has been happening ever since I moved in. […]

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stuff happens here

had a blast at studio hop!

18June2012by k. Leave a comment

Kari Lindquist-Weber exhibited with me at this year’s Studio Hop. It was so fun. We are Dakota-girls, she & I; the horizontal line is prominent in our visual memories. Her […]

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six words

17June2012by k. Leave a comment

The Studio Hop is always more fun when we invite our visitors to do something creative. This year, my pal, Lynn, donated an old school chalkboard to greenwater and we invited folks […]

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best fort ever

12June2012by k. Leave a comment

When I was a kid, I loved to build forts. I would get my sisters, cousins, neighbor kids–anybody willing–to help me build a fort. We built forts everywhere; on the […]

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preparations

10June2012by k. Leave a comment

Every year it is the same…Studio Hop just seems to sneak up on a person. I think what happens is the process of getting ready spurs all sorts of new […]

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my local honey

9June2012by k. Leave a comment

Here’s a big shout-out to my spouse–who not only gives me all the time I need to catch up on my preparations for Studio Hop next weekend, but brewed a […]

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seriously–some days

8June2012by k. Leave a comment

Today was a particularly difficult day of work for me. There are times when I struggle with believing in the value of what I am directed to create. If I […]

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getting to work

6June2012by k. Leave a comment

greenwater is a hill, a bumpy drive, a shadowy curve, a school, a tunnel, a bit of the glacial ridge trail, an interesting neighborhood, a pond, a legion hall and […]

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a gift for the girl garage

4June2012by k. Leave a comment

My father-in-law is such a sweet pal. He gathered an assortment of tools he thought greenwater needed and loaded them into this fine metal toolbox for me. It is awesome. […]

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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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