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Monthly Archives: January 2018

Lendon Noe’s NEW Class is Open for Registration!

23 Tuesday Jan 2018

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The charming Lendon Noe has a new class! I hope you can join us!

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Inspired by Lives & Letters
Instructor: Lendon Noe
3-Week Class • 6 Lessons • $85
Class Dates: February 13- March 1, 2018

As artists we are always looking for inspiration. What’s my next project going to be? What is it that I am trying to say with my artwork?

Rather than just wait in hopes of a muse, I often go looking!

One of my sources for inspiration has been in the lives as revealed in the letters of my favorite poets and authors, and in this class I would like to share some of my approaches  with you.

It’s not unlike a treasure hunt. A little bit of reading, an interest is sparked, one clue leads to the next, and before you know it you have a whole series of work!

Letters (as in correspondence between two people) will be an underlying theme. We will look at some of my favorites: the Master Letters of Emily Dickinson, Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and Letters to a Young Painter. We will give a nod to Nick Bantok and his Griffen and Sabine series.  And then John Berger’s correspondence with John Christie, and I have some personal letters that are real treasures and I bet you do, too.

We will be working relatively small, usually no bigger than 9″x 12″. In fact, 4″ squares will be another underlying theme. There will be lots of mixed media, ink, tissue and collage techniques, a plaster surface treatment and some optional sealing wax tips. You should come away with quite a few pieces of finished work, some of which could actually be mailed!

I am so looking forward to working with you.

Lendon

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One Thing Leads to Another

17 Wednesday Jan 2018

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Recently I’ve been working on those portraits with the collaged arms and hands (see the last post)… so I had out my oil pastel transfer sheet and watercolors.

One day I made this as a warmup:

targetblob

That led to a few animals:

targetdog

targetanimal

And then that led to some abstracted flowers:

targetflowers

Which led to these “cells.”

targetcells

Then I went back and modified the animals for a 365 lesson:

targethorse

And that led to these:

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Which in a way, looks like these:

targetarmssmall

HAHAHAHAHA!!

 

More People Portraits

03 Wednesday Jan 2018

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peopleback

peopleflowerspeoplecatpeoplepregnant

Here are some collage/oil pastel/marker portraits from recent weeks. I love making them.

I wrote this on my Facebook feed a few days ago, but I want to thank you too, for being here. So many of you support what we do (or are trying to do) by taking our online classes, and we are so so grateful. Thank you!

In 2018 I hope to to write another book, something I’ve been trying to do for the past four years! This — along with the continuing of the 365 class with Steve and eight new classes in 2018 from our other teachers — will make 2018 a very busy year!

But I am among the lucky ones: I truly get to do the work I love (and I love it most of the time). Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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…. And the NEW 365 begins Friday if you haven’t had a chance to sign up yet! 😉

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