Artist Spotlight - Cedar Lee

Happy Tuesday everyone....
            today I wanted to introduce you to a wonderful painter. - Ceder Lee www.artbycedar.com .  She's a mom with 2 babies and loves to paint.  I love her choice of subject matter, color palette, and in essence, just how she paints.  She also has a few You Tube videos (one as presented below) that are great.  Cedar not only gives great advice to all of us artists out there, but she presents her work in time-lapse and I love her style!  Please visit her site/work....it's very beautiful.

Semester in Detail

Hey kids.....just wanted to give you an update about my classes this semester.  Here it goes:

1.  Computer Science 1000A (with Labs) - the teacher is female and she's awesome.  The 1st lab we had to create a file and then a folder, and then we had to put the file in the folder, after that we had to type our name and other info on a word doc and submit it to the professor.  -  Yea!.....highly, HIGHLY technical stuff we're doing!!

2.  Anthropology 2320 (Ancient Societies) - the teacher is female and is really nice too.  She seems go on and on at times, but I'm actually learning something.  We're studying specifically the Maya and Inca cultures.

3.  Sociology 1000 - this teacher is a man and he's really good.  But I must admit the readings and discussions for the class are rather athies based.  I just enjoy the discussions and then forget the stuff that is garbage....but I like the class for only that reason.

4.  Photo Arts I - my teacher is a man and he's really good.  There is a lot of work.  We have to make our own pin hole cameras - AGAIN!!! (see Fall 2010 for explaination).  Plus we have to do our own scrapbook (art journal) for the world around us.  Take about a role of file each week using a manual camera and record the "not so obvious" things around us.....I can honestly say....I'm REALLY, REALLY, REALLY gonna like this class.  (yipeeeeeeee)

5.  English-Prose - I have a woman professor, and she is marvelous.  This is the most important class I have this semester.   I need to get above a B in order to pass, and thus to have my prerequisite for applying to the Faculty of Education next year.  This one is important.  We will be studying all kinds of Prose including Charlette Bronte's - "Jane Eyre".   How great is that....I'm looking forward to it!

Well .....there's my semester in a nutshell!

Wish me Luck 

Beginning 2nd Year of University

Well kids.....I'm back in school for my second year.  I only have Photo Arts this semester, the other 4 classes I have are the jump-through-the-hoop kinda classes that I need to get my degree.  Hopefully I'll be applying to the Faculty of Education in Fall 2012 and beginning my practicums then. 

Wish me luck everyone!

P.S.  I'll post my Photo Art assignments once they come in.  I'm really excited to see how the class goes.  :o)

More Digital Art

Hello All - Just hanging back for the month of August.  I finished my Introduction to Music course last month and got an A+.   I was soooo happy.  A great course with tones of information within 3 weeks - but I loved it.

Below are 2 more digital pieces that I've done for my 100 Theme Challenge.  Hope you like them.

# 76 - Passion

#67 - Frost

100 Theme Challenge - More Digital Art Work

Please enjoy more digital works as I try to follow the 100 Theme Challenge....you can also see all of these at Digital Whisper.  The link is at the bottom of my blog page.

#20 - Half

#53 - Life



#96 - In the Storm

# 73 - Clouds

#64 - Exotic

#48 - Childhood



3 New Art Journal Pages

I have more Art Journal pages for you all to gander at.  I completed these awhile ago, its just taken me this long to actually put them up for all to see.












"Angel" is a watercolour and felt marker.  I never have really explored watercolour before, and I'm happy with the results.  I think I'll continue with it and see where it takes me.

"Who I Am" is comprised of magazine pictures, markers,

paints and doodling of my own words.

Detail of "Who I Am"

"I Wonder" was a lot of fun.  I used images, paint, handmade paper and markers.

Detail of "I Wonder"

100 Theme Challenge - #84 - Ghost

Here is #84 - GHOST from my 100 Theme Challenge from Digital Whisper.

The girl on the bike is my mom (with her small friend) and the "ghostly" girl is a picture I got from Morge File

Vintage Mom's Purse

May 8th was my mom's birthday, plus it was Mother's Day...she got a double wammy day.  So I made her a purse to put her wallet in.  I hope you enjoy the pics as much as she enjoyed the purse.

The pink fabric on the left side of the purse is cotton dyed with beet juice.

The buckle on the purse flap are fake dimonds, but I liked that it gives it some bling bling.

 I sewed beads to the wings and the baby is a free picture I found on the internet.

 

 

Art Journal Cards

     Hello, it's me again.  Sorry for the big gap in writing.  My finals were taking up some time, and now that the 2nd semester is over...I can now put up my Art Journal Cards I did for all of my classmates in my Gender Issues in Art and Art History class.  Each student had to do a 15 min. presentation.  They had to choose a feminine image and discuss it from a feminist point of view.  My presentation was about Art Journaling. 

And so I made each one of these Art Journal cards (large recipe card size) and on the back of each I put the websites of all of the Art Journal artists I presented - there was 9! (Teesha Moore, Pam Carriker, Carrie Todd, Susie LaFond, Suzan Buckner, LK Ludwig, Natalie Malik, Misty Mawn, and Lynne Perrella) - So these are them and I hope you enjoy!

Oh....Just as a closing note....my marks were as follows for the 2nd semester, 

          Gender Issues in Art and Art History - A+
          Psychology 1000 - B-
          Drawing I - A-
          Digital Studio - A-
          GPA - 3.61

I start my summer semester May 9th - Education 2500, English - Science Fiction and Epic Tradition, and Introduction to Music.  

Then in September 2011 I go into my second year with 5 courses.
          Computer Science 1000
          Photo Arts
          Sociology 1000
          English - Pros Fiction
          Anthropology 2020 - Ancient Civilizations
                                              ~ ~ ~ ~  Wish me luck!!!

             

100 Theme Challenge - Digital Whisper

    




Hello All,

     I just thought I would share with you my first image for Digital Whisper 100 Theme Challenge.  One must create a digital work of art for each challenge before the end of the year.  This one is #21 - CAVE.

Let me know what y'all think.  I think my Digital Studio class this semester is really paying off!

10 Things I'm Thankful For

     I don't think we do enough "thanking" in our world today...so below are my top 10 - What I'm Thankful For List!  ~  Enjoy!

1.  I'm thankful for the opportunity to be going back to school.  At times it is hard...but I'm glad I get to give it one more go!

    2.  I'm thankful for my children.  They are so wonderful...I couldn't have asked for better kids to raise!

            3.  I'm thankful for my many talents.  I just love to create art, sing and use my hands to do what is in my head, and then of course share it with others.

4.  I'm thankful for my car.  Now this may seem a simple thing, but without my car....I can't do the things I really need to do.  I love you Little Blue!

    5.  I'm thankful for my membership and testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I have absolutely no idea how people cope with the world today without Him!!

                 6.  I'm thankful for my health.  I know this a cliche...but it's true...I'm glad I can walk and not faint and run and not be weary.  (I'm not sure about doing stairs...but I try! :o)

  7.  I'm thankful for my parents.  They taught me right from wrong and have always been a tremendous strenght in my life.  I love you mommy and daddy!

       8.  I'm thankful for my country...I AM CANADIAN!!!  Need I say more?

                             9.  I'm thankful for people who inspire me to do my best and to be my best.

10.  I'm thankful for my bed.  Strange yes....silly even...but oh how I LOVE my bed.  It's so soft and comfy...especially when I have a great book to read!!  :o)
   

Art Journal Page - Save Me!

Did you ever have one of those cruddy days where you vent and give yourself a pep talk all at the same time?  I certainly did today.

I hate my Drawing I class....my instructor creates art using a ruler and "exactness"!!   She sucks the creativity and fun out of the wonderful journey of art making itself.  She's taught drawing for 15 years, but the unfortunate thing about it is that the student is always at the mercy of the bias of the instructor.  If they don't like your art....your mark can suffer!

I come away from her class feeling run over by a heavy weight, Olympic sized art critic that no matter what I do...my work will never satisfy.  I come away every class doubting my own creative processes, skill and talent.

Only a bit more time left to this semester, but I truly am struggling with this one.....SO I come home and delve into my art journaling and my creative juices are patched up temporarily until I go back and get another whack of criticism and dose of creative impudence.

I have added a new page to my blog -
"Art Journal Pages"

 My first Art Journal Page

"Save Me"

Created March 12, 2011
(collage and liquid sharpie white & black pen)

Keep on Goin'!

Just an update for you:

1.  New blog look.
2.  Second semester isn't as great as my first was, but I'm givin' it my best!
3.  I hope to add some of my Art Journal pages.
4.  I hope to even do some paintings to sell.

All in the future of course....life moves on!

Spotlight Artist - Susie LaFond "Gathering Up Bits of the World"

     Another spotlight for you....Susie LaFond from "Gathering Up Bits of the World".  Her work is also shown in the Winter 2011 magazine ART JOURNALING by Somerset Studio.  Her work is so wonderful!  Susie uses textiles, text, collage, paint and other mixed media to express her lifes happenings, and very wonderfully might I add.  Visit her blog...you will not be disapointed.

     Art Journaling is becoming an obsession of mine, so much so that I'm actually doing a presentation for my Gender Issues in Art & Art History class.  I'm so excited to present this artist venue to my instructor and classmates.  I hope I do really well, and in turn more awareness can be made for this wonderful expressive art.

 

Drawings from Art 2031 Class - Fall 2010

  

As promised I have taken a few pics of my assignments from my Art 2031A class from my first semester.  I hope you like them.