PAINTING GRADE-SCHOOL-STYLE
PREFACE
Recently my sister, a former elementary school art teacher (for 16 years at the same school before her job was eliminated by Broward County School Board), gave me some of her old supplies to use or sell as I saw fit. After selling off most of the watercolor and oil pastel crayons I became curious and started using them in an experimental way.
STORY
The way they work is just like crayons to draw your picture, then you apply water with a brush or Q-tip or other method to push the color around. It is quite fun! I haven't really been painting much for the last 3 years and this is a good way to get back into it. The lack of painting has been a combination of motivation (off and on depression from moving away from friends and family and unemployment for a year) and lack of disposable income (paint and canvas isn't free). The last time I did any painting, it was on a large scale (3' X 4') canvases which cost $50 a piece.
I had also recently acquired 8 small, gallery-wrapped 11" X 14" canvases for less than $25 in a sell-off of a local BigLots store which was relocating. I looked at the canvases and the crayons and decided to do a few "unimportant" paintings to practice with the materials and exercise my painting "muscles" which have been inactive for so long. I chose an expired butterfly calendar to do my first and was surprisingly happy with the results. I will post a digital pictures of the ones I do when I get a chance.
CONCLUSION
I feel I am healing and coming back into my own time and place again. I am not looking for validation or approval of my artwork or whatever talent I have. I just need to do...
Recently my sister, a former elementary school art teacher (for 16 years at the same school before her job was eliminated by Broward County School Board), gave me some of her old supplies to use or sell as I saw fit. After selling off most of the watercolor and oil pastel crayons I became curious and started using them in an experimental way.
STORY
The way they work is just like crayons to draw your picture, then you apply water with a brush or Q-tip or other method to push the color around. It is quite fun! I haven't really been painting much for the last 3 years and this is a good way to get back into it. The lack of painting has been a combination of motivation (off and on depression from moving away from friends and family and unemployment for a year) and lack of disposable income (paint and canvas isn't free). The last time I did any painting, it was on a large scale (3' X 4') canvases which cost $50 a piece.
I had also recently acquired 8 small, gallery-wrapped 11" X 14" canvases for less than $25 in a sell-off of a local BigLots store which was relocating. I looked at the canvases and the crayons and decided to do a few "unimportant" paintings to practice with the materials and exercise my painting "muscles" which have been inactive for so long. I chose an expired butterfly calendar to do my first and was surprisingly happy with the results. I will post a digital pictures of the ones I do when I get a chance.
CONCLUSION
I feel I am healing and coming back into my own time and place again. I am not looking for validation or approval of my artwork or whatever talent I have. I just need to do...
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