Monthly Archives: November 2009

Holiday Colors In My Journal

I played with golden yellow, red and green tonight. I know it is getting closer to the holidays when I start to gravitate to this holiday palette. I’ve been listening to interviews and video of Martin Glaser all evening. I fully embrace his beliefs about creativity and art. I too am a humanist and graphic …

November 20, 2009 – 9:18 pm | By Gulfsprite | Posted in Art Journals | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

I Love Purple

Since I was old enough to say the name I have loved purple. I rarely wear it, do not have any in my home and yet, I do really enjoy seeing it. Playing in my journal I keep seeing it popping up here and there. Finally I decided to just give in to impulse and …

November 17, 2009 – 9:25 pm | By Gulfsprite | Posted in Art Journals | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Weekend Journaling

I spent the weekend painting and watching movies. The movies definitely affected the painting. Several of them were horror flicks and I think I left much of the portraits a bit raw with sharp lighting because of this. That or I was just in one of those moods. Yes, even artists have those in their …

November 16, 2009 – 7:36 pm | By Gulfsprite | Posted in Art Journals, Mixed-Media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Art Journal Painting From This Week

I recently talked about trying out oil pastels over acrylics. Love it. I’ve been experimenting more and in this first picture I have used… acrylics, oil pastels, water color, more oil pastels. In that order This was a total blast and I am proud that my palm tree actually looks like one. Believe me I …

November 14, 2009 – 4:33 pm | By Gulfsprite | Posted in Art Journals, Mixed-Media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)