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By: Leslie Ann Clark,
on 4/8/2013
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Winter is on the way OUT! I say this as a huge storm is coming into Colorado right NOW!! No, I did not go to the grocery store in freak out mode stocking my cupboards. Instead, I spent a bit of time today digging in my garden resisting the urge to acknowledge the storm at all! ha!
Alas, tonight I will hunker down with my pens and paper and continue to work towards deadlines for up and coming trade shows. That is the good thing about storms! They keep me focused. I wonder how many artists are like me?
I have one problem. I can’t seem to go out to my studio to work. It’s covered with papers, receipts, file folders etc. It is my new book-keeping system in progress. Eeeeek! My friend is helping me set up my Quick Books program. She entered all my checks, deposits etc, and sent me the disk. I bought the program, installed it, imported my files… … then I went to reconcile the two bank statements that my friend did not add and suddenly I am thirty dollars off! What on earth? What could I have done?
So, I did what I do best, I locked the studio door and went in the house. ha! My right brain is not in the mood for numbers! Happy Spring everyone!
Happy first day of spring!
playing around with type and collage this morning....
I love Charlotte.
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on 3/20/2013
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mr. winter, you've let me down once again....but my love remains true. i will always be faithful to you and your pristine beauty and frosty temps :)
until next year....
btw, PRINTS of this painting are SOLD HERE:
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on 3/20/2013
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While it may not feel like it, today is the first day of spring! We’re very excited for our forthcoming spring titles, which you can check out here. To kick off the spring season, here’s an image and poem from Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jitomates Risueños y otros poemas de primavera, written by Francisco X. Alarcón, and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez, published by Children’s Book Press, an imprint of LEE & LOW.
Spring
the hills
are starting
to crack
a green smile
once again
Primavera
las colinas
comienzan
a sonreír
muy verdes
otra vez
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Last week I posted a Haibun focused on my Clivia plants. Haibun is a Japanese haiku form made famous by Basho's 17c. book A Narrow Road to Deep North, a travel journal filled with haiku. Haibun combined prose writing with poetry; it is haiku wrapped in story. I'd like to continue the story of our Clivia plants in another haibun this week and share what happened at the Longwood Gardens Clivia show
By: Paula,
on 3/14/2013
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Thought I'd put up some Easter-related items here, since we are into March. This is part of a licensing package I've been working on.
Every day I go out my back door, down the walkway to my studio.
It is still winter around these parts, even though severe cold appears to be behind us. In Colorado we KNOW that we could still get 3 feet of snow! .. all the way into April.
Still, in my mind I have been planting flowers now. This flower bed that looks so bare, will be full of plants in around 12 weeks! The grass will be green even before that! I am so excited! I love Spring! I love when the birds get back from their vacation down south! The woodpecker is already pounding on our chimney and I just smile! Its all signs of Spring! Soon I will be working in my studio with my door and windows open. I am READY!!!
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on 2/15/2013
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I've tucked away the porcelain creamer, little orange flowers and cascading drapery, replacing the objects with photo references for a project I'm really excited about doing. The inspiration was a photograph of my oldest daughter taken about a year ago at El Capitan State Beach. However, I'm changing the location from a rocky beach to a rocky riverbed with some trees in the background.
I'm looking forward to playing with some colors that have not been on the palette for other projects - mainly Phthalo blue and green. I'm also excited about exploring colors and patterns of stones in water - I've always been drawn to that in nature. But, most of all, I'm delighted to be working with a specific concept - trying to capture the moment of quiet contemplation or listening in prayer.
I have flashes of what I think the end product might look like, but I've learned not to get hung up in those fleeting visions. They give me a direction, but the journey will likely take me down any number of possible paths. But, this is merely a study for the sake of exploration. Ultimately, I see this as a fairly large painting - large for my space, anyway, requiring more than a little tabletop. By the time I'm ready to move on to canvas, the weather should be comfortable enough to work in the garage again.
I think valentines day should be about celebrating the people and things that make you happy.
Happy day to you, actually, take the weekend! We are off of school for 4 days.
Enjoy.
we got flowers...... and time off from school and other obligations.
But, after a week of sequential family flu yuckiness, I'm about ready for things to get back to normal.
I'll check back with illustration friday soon, happy 100th day of school.
(so many sketch ideas, so little time :)
Still in the spirit of hearts, love, and Valentine's Day, I decided to doodle some flowers with heart petals, inspired by Provençal motif designs. Whipped out my large Moleskine journal and my marker pens and here are the results:
There's something I quite liked about those top flowers, though I can't pinpoint exactly what it is. So I scanned it in and cleaned it up a bit, just to see how it would look. Here's the scanned original:
And here's the cleaned up version:
Is there something odd but cute about it? I'm really unsure whether to work on it further and place it onto products, or create a pattern design from it or not. Perhaps I'll just put it in the To Do queue and look at it again sometime in the future and decide then. What do you think? Cheers.
Just another quick, messy, doodle ... flowers in a square-ish sized box. A bit too rigid in style to be made into patterns, perhaps. Will just leave it be as it is, in the Moleskine journal.
Thumbelina by Susan Jeffers
Once upon a time there was a woman who was sad because she had no children. One day she planted a magic seed and from the seed grew a flower. Inside the flower was a tiny, exquisite girl no bigger than the woman's thumb. Her name was Thumbelina. The two lived happily together until an ugly old toad snuck in and snatched Thumbelina away. So began Thumbelina's adventures...A beautiful version of a classic tale with illustrations by Susan Jeffers...
If you liked this, try:
The Princess and the Pea
Pretty Salma
Rumpelstiltskin
The Three Pigs
The Tale of the Firebird
By: Tatjana Mai-Wyss,
on 10/10/2012
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| Dionaea muscipula |
The
Venus Fly Trap looks nice and dangerous, but unless you're a fly or other small insect, you're safe.
I've been having fun with this series of dangerous plants, it makes a good warm up and helps me think carefully about value and color. Last night I saw an enormous opossum slide into the bushes and it made me think of doing nocturnal animals next.
I seem to be becoming more and more fascinated by large scale art installations. I stumbled across
these artists yesterday, and I can't believe I haven't heard about them sooner.
They're even from Switzerland!
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on 9/5/2012
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Looking for inspiration in shapes I see around me. Circles. I took tons of photos but here are three of them.
After which I did a bit of an exercise with all that inspiration! Used the rose in the above photograph, got my pencils and pens out, and started playing ...
Quite enjoyed that. Have a lot of catching up to do this week, so there's long way to go as yet ... Cheers!
i know i don't usually post my fine arts here, but i wanted to share these bec i actually kind of like them....;)
my dad and step mom commissioned me to do two large paintings for their dining room of poppy flowers. these are both 20x 24 and i framed them as well....
well, until i broke the glass on one of them delivering them yesterday to my dad. off to find replacement glass today so that they can actually get them up on their walls :)
the link below shows the poppies in progress.....
Finally got to spend a larger chunk of time on the mural again today. I've started building up the landscape in the first couple panels, particularly the hills. As you can see, I started by laying in some yellow to capture the flowers that come around every spring (and have gone at this point).
I'm so glad that I spent the time to work out the tree colors - it soooooo helped. And, as expected, I'm reworking the hill colors, or at least the brushwork. I'm using a more textured approach in the areas closer to the viewer. I still have a lot to do on them thar hills, but I like how it's started. Some I like, some needs to be adjusted. Our hills have such variety - many are bare, some have the occassional shrub or tree, while others seem to have a blanket of shrubbery.
It's kind of hard to believe, but now that I've put in the trees, I feel like I'm nearing the end. I still have work to do in each panel, but at this point, it's details, fine tuning, and fairy minor adjustments. If all goes well, I'd say that I have about a week of additions and "fixings". I'll have to move the panels around in order to finish some parts - to make sure that the continuity from one panel to the next is accurate. Then, I'd give myself another week of obsessively staring, analyzing, and more fixing. After that, I guess it will be time to put the protective top varnish on and seal it.
Yesterday, I put in several more trees and shrubs and extended some of the yellow flowers. I may add a few more in, but probably not much.
I also started to put in the pumpkin stems, although I think I'll switch them to the browner side. But, as you can see, this panel has really come together!
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on 6/30/2012
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I've been increasingly fascinated by surface design lately. I've always loved patterns but it never occurred to me that I might one day be able to create some of my own. Recently, being able to design on household products has driven me to study the formation of patterns, and I'm slowly learning, researching, and experimenting. Here are the results so far:
I started off by drawing some daisies, then scanning them and digitally painting them in Corel Painter 12 before I took them back into photoshop to apply a few effects. Then it was time to pick background colours, never an easy task for me and it usually takes me hours of nail-biting indecision but I finally came up with three ...
The above turquoise blue was my favourite, but it seemed to work just as well against the chantilly pink and gold yellow (see below). I was aiming for a cheerful, bright and joyful look. Hope I achieved it. The background seemed a little subdued for some products, so I applied stripes in a lighter colour, I then picked a few daisies to enlarge and highlight, and this is the end result:
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on 7/8/2012
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well, i've been busy working on re-doing the website (which is DONE-thank God). i had to keep myself *sane* in the meantime...so how do i do that?! i PAINT! and then, all is right with the world:)
i LOVE painting nursery art for little kids (as i have an obsession with cute bedding AND could be locked in babies r us for days on end).
i came across the bedding below called In The Woods and i HAD to paint my version of those cute little owls. AND what made it completely irresistible to me....pink and orange....my two favorite colors!:)
please feel free to buy them. they are kinda CUTE....;)
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I am, very slowly, learning more about Surface Design. And discovering that I'm loving it. It's certainly not a simple process, but I do love puzzles and that probably helps, as putting the separate pieces together to make a cohesive (and aesthetically pleasing!) whole is definitely a large part of the overall process. I just hope that I'm getting it right.
Following on from my Daisy Joy, I've drawn 5 Poinsettia plants in the same style, and attempted once more to create a pattern from them. Here's one of the painted Poinsettias, and below that are the fabrics I've designed from them.
As the Poinsettia plant is so closely associated with Christmas, I've picked cheery seasonal colours for the backgrounds ...
Poinsettia Joy dots Fabric Collection
Poinsettia Joy red Fabric Collection
Poinsettia Joy green
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at it's finest!
working on 2 custom piece at once. this one for a little girl named lauren who loves her ladybugs.
and the latter one, a painting for a baby named grady (whose family are big phillies fans). myself being the die-hard atlanta braves fan that i am....well, let's just say i'm tying not to *accidentally* make him a brave ;)
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Liked this doodle enough to fill it in with colour. Just for fun. Cheers.
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I never pay my bills in my studio! It’s too conflicting, only art things allowed…
Aaah…. good point!!
Adorable animation, Leslie Ann!!
…Keep hoping for Spring! It is right around the corner!
Thank you Patti! Where do you live?
I live in North Carolina… We really love it here!
Spring is in full-swing right now… The cherry trees in front of our house are at their peak & they are especially lovely this year!
Patti, Oh how wonderful! My friend moved to Charlotte a few years ago. She loves it there too. I would love to visit that area. I am planning a trip of a lifetime. I hope I get to do it. It will be from N.Caroline up the coast to Maine and then Nova Scotia! Your description is wonderful. I am in Colorado and the wind and snow are blowing. I think it is winters last ditch effort. Spring is here. The snow will melt quicky and allow all my flowers to emerge at last! Enjoy! … and hey!, tag me a photo of your trees on FB.I would LOVE to see them!