Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Art. 'Tis qutie fun. The end.

I didn't make this.  But I LOVE this quote. 
I got the idea for this from another painting I saw.  This reminds me of Fall, Spring, and Summer.  My sister Stephanie and I felt like painting over the weekend.

This one I did is one of the many places we have stayed at Lake Powell (my favorite place on this planet!)

This is the sail boats in Boston coming in right after the sun has set but it is not quite dark yet. 
Christina, me and my Mom each made our own Mod Podge decoration for a girl's night during preisthood session.  This is one of my absolute favorite quotes!  I burned the paper over the stove first.
I painted these haha!



We lamenated fall leaves to make bookmarks at work.

The rest of these are things I made with work. They are pieces of "expressive art" - - What does that mean?  The quick, easy, skipping the long explanation answer is this: The pictures make sense to me, and that is all that matters.  Forget the color-wheel, perfect proportions, and specific technique - - All that matters is the meaning behind what I create.  Because of that, anyone and everyone can be an expressive artist.  It is expressing ourselves with colors and images rather than words. Kind of like a journal, but with art.












My poor little cactus...haha! So sad.



Rest in peace.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Listened to an incredible talk by elder Holland!

I don't know who made this picture, but I like it.

I taught the girls at work how to make what I call chance art. It was super fun!

With this type of painting there is no right way to paint, and no wrong way, you just experiement and try new things. By the end, you will have made multiple layers - - what you first painted will probably be covered over several times in the end.  You just keep adding new things and experimenting until you feel like stopping.  i.e.throwing darts at balloons filled with paint and seeing how the paint explodes, tapping the canvas on the ground and letting gravity pull the paint downward, splating or flicking the paint with your fingers, putting paint on the canvas and squishing it with plants to see what texture the paint makes, covering the canvas with paint and spinning the canvas in a circle to see how that motion pulls the paint, throwing the canvas like a frisbee accross a field and see what happens to the puddle of paint you just poured onto it, standing high above the canvas and dropping paint down onto it, blowing air on the paint and watching how the paint moves etc..  With this type of painting, enjoying the process is just as important (if not more important) as the finish.  And the cool thing is that they all turn out SO different!  These are two different ones I made.





Battle Creek Falls


BYU vs UTAH with Sarah! So fun! ...even though we lost...three times...BYU just didn't want to play on sunday ;)