Lucy’s coloring book
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It’s Monday again. Have a good week people! I haven’t been around much lately and it is not very typical for me. I am also not very talkative at the moment, so please excuse the ‘no comment’ posts. I will get hold of myself eventually and visit your lovely blogs too.
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I promised in one of my previous posts that I will post an update from the course that I am currently taking with Jane Davenport, Over the Rainbow, which has the Wizard of Oz for the theme. We have done quite a lot and I think that the course is nearing its end. I am pleased that I am managing to follow the lessons as they are published, ok I am one lesson behind, but hey, that’s great.
Jane is my favorite teacher because she is pushing me out of my comfort zone and making me achieve things I would have never tried otherwise. You will see that some of lessons are not what I would call a success (particularly the scene with the yellow brick road, which was a lesson on perspective and was so challenging that I almost gave up), but then decided that I will just do my best and do each lesson, no matter what. Enough said, take a look for yourself:
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Some time ago I ordered several new watercolours, because Schmincke just recently introduced 36 new colors and I wanted to try some of them. Also they were giving a free dot chart to the first 100 orders in Jackson’s, so I thought it is a good idea to order now and get the dot chart, so I can try all the colors and decide which ones I absolutely must have… Along with Schmincke, I ordered some Daniel Smith too, three colors that I wanted for some time:
So, today and yesterday morning I was just making random doodles to try out the colors. I am happy with my choice, especially the Mars Blue and Green Apatite by Daniel Smith and French Ultramarine by Schmincke, which are all beautiful granulating paints. Also, I wanted that Opera Rose for a long time, and now I got a big tube (they did not have smaller) so there will be plenty of Opera pinkish paintings coming up. It will be great for my mandalas! Here are the two test doodle pages:
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I have several broken CDs and I thought it would be a good idea not to throw them to waste, but use as a base for little mandalas. Last week I started, and over the weekend finished the first one. Here is one progress shot (along with the mandala I am working on currently, you can see I am in pink-green mood):
And here is the finished CD-mandala, which is now happily hanging on my enterance door. The colors are so different on two photos that it’s hard to beleve it’s the same thing. The real colors are actually something in between. It seems that the color depends on other colors that surround it, the black seems to make colors bolder and the white makes them more subdued. Anyway… It looks good on the door 🙂
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You could see yesterday, if you read my post, that I carved a flower stamp to use in my new mandala. I used the leaf stamp too, which I carved for #carveDecember last year, and I also quickly carved a cirle yesterday, which will come very handy in future mandalas. Today I finished coloring it and tomorrow it’s all about doodles.
It’s been a dark rainy day here today. I haven’t slept well and feel rather tired. I am catching up with my ‘Over the Rainbow’ course this week and I have two more drawings to do over the weekend. Maybe then I can show you my progress. There are good drawings and some less good, I am not so proud of 🙂 Good thing about Jane’s courses is that she is really pushing my boundaries. Half of the time I feel like giving up and running away from the lesson (screaming for help) and the other half I am happily patting my back, really surprised that I could pull it through. Anyway, you will see soon what I am talking about.
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I have been lazy again. Days are shorter and shorter and to-do-list longer and longer. Each day I am catching up with something and it makes me nervous. By four pm I am exhausted and need to rest. Am I getting older and more easily tired or is it just an impression, maybe I am just trying to do more and more and I am not managing. Anyway… I have finished the mandala that I showed you in the last post. I am quite pleased with it, even though there are some new paints for making dots that I bought last week and tried out and they did not impress me…
The other mandala I finished is this one:
I used my stamps to create the shapes and colored it with markers. I also bought some new Liquid Pearls this week (they are the best!), so I used them too. I am rather ok with this one, even though it is not properly centered on paper, so it is not usable for framing, as a bit of stamp went over the edge of paper. Ah, well…Today I carved another stamp to use in mandalas. I’ve been planning to do that for quite some time, and finally got to it this morning. I chose a simple flower design, which was easy to carve and gives unlimited possibilities in designing mandalas.
Lucy’s coloring book 