MiraBay Acrylics Class for March Ended Today

Our series of four acrylics classes for the month of March ended today on a highly successful note.

Karen who is new to our group had never painted before this session.  Look at her fabulous painting of Chihuly glass!  She is proud and we are all proud of her.

We had a drop-in student who was on vacation and staying at Little Harbor with his lovely wife.  He came to the last three classes.  Meet Jim from Troy, Michigan, and check out his cool painting.  Good job, Jim!

Margaret, Martha and Marie (the 3M company) are still working on their creations so weren't ready for photos.

I will be out of town for ten days in April so I cannot commit to every Tuesday as before.
So we will meet at the Big Draw Studios in April for a three-day workshop on using the wipe-out method.  Anyone want to join us?

Ruskin Community Art Project Saturday, March 19, 2010

Dina led us in an exercise to show us how to mix colors and fill in squares to create an enlarged mural.

How?

We each had icing in the primary and secondary colors plus white and a bag of square cookies.  We were also given one square of a pixelated poster that had been cut into 20 squares.

Our challenge:  To mix the colors we saw in the pixelated square and ice our cookies.  We then attached our iced cookies to a 12" x 12" square of cardboard.

Upon completion of the squares, they were placed on the floor in order to create an enlargement of the original poster.

My pixelated square - 1/20th of the poster

 

My iced cookies





Pixelated poster cut into 20 squares

So...what is it?  Why, Betty White eating a hot dog and Mike Tyson eating an avocado, of course!

I'm proud of my cookies; see my square on the left; my cookies on the right.

Fun way of learning to mix colors and to enlarge the original.  THANKS, DINA AND MIKE!



Thank You to all My Friends Who Stopped by Booth 46 Today!

Had a wonderful time participating in the Apollo Beach Manatee Festival of the Arts.  Sold a painting and lots of notecards.  Made lots of contacts and recruited lots of folks for my art classes--especially gyotaku--at both my Big Draw Studio and at MiraBay.  Visited with many old and news friends.

Thank you, Margaret for helping me set up.  Thank you, Mike, for transporting all my things from the studio and ESPECIALLY for the tear-down and returning stuff to the studio.  And thank you to Sandy for helping.

Thank you, Nancy, for the company and the lunch.  And to Lee for the breaks.  And to Grace and friends for the water deliveries.

And always to Archie for his constant support.

View of Booth 46 from the front.  End of the row allowed lots of access and views from three sides.

Left side of my display

Right side--VERY fishy!

Apollo Beach Manatee Festival of the Arts

After swearing that I would never do another outdoor art show, I will be showing this coming weekend at the

Apollo Beach Manatee Festival of the Arts

Be sure to stop by for a visit and a look at my latest work if you are so inclined. 

Oh, and I have a few free tickets; I'll reward anyone who actually reads this blog and emails me of this offer:  grace.mckee@live.com.

BTW some of you are aware that I have moved into studio space at the BIG DRAW STUDIO in Ruskin.  How wonderful to have a place where I can make a mess and leave it out.  Of course, Archie will tell you I did that in our home!  lol  I still have a studio at home for those middle-of-the-night inspirations.  But now we can actually have guests over again!