Celebrating Color

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My Visit to San Miguel de Allende

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My visit to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in March, brought me intense colors, wonderful food, old cobblestone streets, fascinating murals, rooftop restaurants at sunset, ancient cobble stone streets and much more.

International travel is one of my favorite ways to experience our world and open my eyes to new perspectives, cultures and life styles. In addition, it challenged me physically because San Miguel de Allende (SMA) is built on a hill and there is rarely a flat area larger than a block. Stairs are everywhere and the old streets and sidewalks require vigilance to avoid tripping. Despite this, I walked for miles. I can’t remember when I last walked 2-5 miles a day for 8 days (thanks to my Fitbit I know)!

visit to san miguel de allende

Why SMA? It was an art workshop that enticed me to Mexico. Last fall I had decided that I wanted to improve my ability to convey drama and to be more consistent with impactful compositions. When a workshop taught by an abstract painter entitled “Contrast and Composition,” crossed my email, I decided to sign up. I was also ready to travel after a long dry spell. [Read more…]

What are the Major Lines in Art?

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When was the last time to the lines you use in your work or in someone else’s? What are the major lines in art? What do they convey? Try to name the five types of lines in art before reading further.

I confess, I hadn’t consciously thought about it for a long time until I was in the early stages of  creating my latest series entitled Colorscapes.

Early in 2020, I began this series for a solo show that was to happen in 2021. (As you may know, it has happened! Visit my portfolio page). After I had completed a couple of paintings, I saw a horizontal line continue to show up. This got me curious to learn more about this line to bring it further up into my consciousness. Below you will notice this horizontal line employed a few different ways in “African Winds,” yet all in one area. There are additional lines incorporated as well.

lines in art

What are the Five Major Lines in Art?

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How Did I Create a Solo Show During COVID?

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Back in December 2019, the gallery owner of G44 Gallery, Colorado Springs, surprised me with an invitation to have a solo show in 2021. Not only was I honored and excited, but I also had a strong visceral reaction of “Yes! That will be perfect timing.” Ha! Little did any of us know what the future had in store for us.

How did I begin creating for this upcoming solo show?

At the time of the invitation, I had just begun experimenting with a new medium — cold wax with oil — followed by an excellent cold wax workshop taught by Tish Lacy Reed in January. Subsequently, I dove in with great gusto. At this point – about the Feb/March time frame – I wasn’t thinking about a series or my show, I was dedicated to learning about cold wax with oil. create a solo show

During my 30+ years of painting, I have worked in watercolor, pencil, oil, pastel and acrylics, and in that sequence. During each medium, I focused on just that one medium. In other words, I have never jumped from one to the other and back. Why? Because I wanted to get to know the medium as well as I could and enjoy all of its characteristics. My subject matter also evolved along with these medium changes. [Read more…]

What are My Top 5 Color Mixing Blogs?

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During the past few months, I have been cleaning up my website. What do I mean? I ventured into a potentially scary place to see if I had any broken URLs. I discovered I had hundreds of them throughout my site. YIKES! Apparently Google does not like this. I don’t know I was being punished/neglected, but I assume that I was.

 

Once I recovered from a sense of overwhelm, I dove in to tackle these broken links. It was a slow and arduous task, as I had over 400 broken URLs…OMG! However, it also took me down memory lane and gave me the opportunity to see what I had written during these past many years. I was astounded to learn my first blog post was in 2010 and I have over 210 blog posts. Cool!

 

Then I thought I would re-visit my Google Analytics to ascertain my top color mixing blogs. Again, I was not prepared for what I would learn. As you know, most of my content is about color, but it is always interesting to see which content is searched the most frequently.

Since not all of you are aware of the amount of content I have on my site, I thought I would share with you the top five posts. The below montage provides some clues.color mixing blogsWhich do you think are the most popular color mixing blogs?  ~~~drum roll~~~~~

My Top 5 Color Mixing Blogs Are:

#2. The Four Steps to Mixing Sage Green of the Southwest

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/four-steps-mixing-sage-green

#3.  What is the Complement of Pink?

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/what-is-complement-of-pink/

#4. How do You Mix Pink?

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/how-mix-pink/

#5. How to Make Yellow Dark

https://www.celebratingcolor.com/how-to-make-yellow-dark/

Are you surprised? I know I am.

While you are visiting these color mixing blogs, you are invited to search via the categories located on the right sidebar for a topic that may interest you.

BTW, my website is all cleaned up, yeh! Sure hope this makes the search engines happy.

Please share with fellow artists and friends.

PS If you would like to venture into the broken URL arena, this is the free software that I used. http://brokenlinkcheck.com

color mixing blogs

What Are the Four Stages of Learning?

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Are there stages of adult learning? Yes there are. Sometimes we resist them or forget they are a part of the learning process.

As a life long learner, it never ceases to amaze me how the four stages of learning repeat themselves. In other words, I can’t skip a step, though I would love to. I am sure you would also, particularly when acquiring a skill, technique or knowledge that seems to take so long.

I refer to them as the four stages of learning. They are also known as the “four stages of competence” and the “four levels of teaching.”

What Are the Four Stages of Learning?

In sequence, they are:

1. Unconscious incompetence

2. Conscious incompetence

3. Conscious competence

4. Unconscious competence

Can you relate to any or all of the above with a recent learning experience?

What is Unconscious incompetence?

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