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Unfinished Drawings

22 Tuesday Jan 2013

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abandoned art, art, composition issue, gesso, unfinished drawing, watercolor

brownie

Pencil, watercolor, gesso on paper, with digital enhancing.

I think I have about 100 small, unfinished drawings/watercolors in a pile on my art table. Most get abandoned because I get stuck and don’t know what to do next. I set them aside, hoping that if I revisit them later with fresh eyes, I can save them.

I’m not so very sure about that. It’s happened only a couple of times. I think the revisits don’t often work because there is something fundamentally “wrong” with them that causes me to lose interest part-way through in the first place.

(For example, in the above little painting it was a composition issue; I used Photoshop to obscure another creature that wasn’t working as well.)

What to do with all of these failed/in-process/potential pieces?

I’m not sure. I can’t seem to get rid of them, though!

Bull

25 Friday May 2012

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Animals, bull, bull painting, drawing animals, gesso, painting animals, watercolor

I’m happier with this bull than I have been with anything in a long time! 😀
Watercolor, gesso, pencil on paper. 

Cow or Horse?

23 Wednesday May 2012

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animal painting, Animals, cow, gesso, horse, watercolor

(I’m not sure either!) watercolor, gesoo, pencil on paper.

Summer Online Art Classes

22 Tuesday May 2012

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gesso, junk mail art, mixed media, online art class, online art classes, watercolor

Here is the line-up of my summer online classes (one week each):

Early Summer Repeat Sessions ($35 each, $65 for two, or $85 for all three classes)
June 11-15, 2012 • Junk Mail Artist’s Book (Repeat Session)
June 25-29 • Imaginary Creatures (Repeat Session)
July 9-13, 2012 • Faces 101 (Repeat Session)

2013 Dog Days of Summer Camp (class details forthcoming July 1):
August 6-10, 2012 • Watercolor Transfer Paintings (New!)
August 13-17, 2012 • Cereal Box Paper Dolls (New!)

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And, since this one is just around the corner (begins June 11th):

J u n k   M a i l   A r t i s t ‘ s   B o o k

Repeat Session: June 11-15, 2012

This is a mixed-media-junkie’s dream project! Junk mail combined with gesso, watercolor, a little swirly technique here, some packing tape there, creates beautiful and complicated textures that you can use as backgrounds for any mixed media projects you currently have going. In this class we’ll use our pages to create an irregularly shaped book. Then, we’ll DRAW! You will begin a drawing on one spread, with the goal of having each image connect to and work with the images from other spreads. The drawing exercises throughout the week will build up to you being able to see more creatively and embrace the “puzzle” nature of this beautiful artist’s book.

Take this class if you love textures, layers, and everything mixed media. This one is just FUN!
Note: This is a repeat of the class held in August 2011 (by popular demand!).

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Just $35!

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Here’s the scoop for this class:

• Be ready for a week jam-packed with creativity! (Update: If you do all the assignments each day, I estimate it will take about 1 – 1.5 hours each day.)

• Each day you’ll wake up to a morning peptalk email with links to your daily schedule, warm-up PDF worksheet, drawing assignment, demonstration videos and painting assignment. (Five days; five warm-up worksheets; five drawing assignments; nine videos; five painting assignments.)

• A password-protected blog dedicated to each class will serve as our clubhouse and will be our meeting place for all of the above, as well as special goodie bag materials and other surprises (including bug spray).

• A flickr group will be created for each session so you can (optionally) share your worksheets, drawings, paintings, and enjoy and learn from the artwork of others. (However, if you are shy about posting your art, I am always available to look at your work via email.)

• A perfect activity to do with your kids.

• The class materials will be up and available for download until “forever,” if for some reason you need to miss a day (or the week).

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Sign Up Here!

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• Upon registration, you will receive an email within 48 hours confirming your sign-up. On the Wednesday before your session begins, you will receive a “test” email to make sure you can receive/view everything.

• What you will need: You will be able to read acrobat pdf files and view videos.

• Class fee is good for participants living in a single household.

QUESTIONS? carla@carlasonheim.com

Thank you for your interest!

Happy Friday

04 Friday May 2012

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beets, charcoal, gesso, painting with beets, watercolor

In process, watercolor, pencil, gesso, charcoal and beets!

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Have a great weekend!

Flower Board Books

16 Friday Mar 2012

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flower board book, flower books, flower crazy, gesso, watercolor, watercolor flowers

A quick plug for my Flower Crazy class starting in just about three weeks!

It’s a 5-week online class, where we’ll work with watercolor, gesso, and all kinds of other fun stuff to create your own unique garden of abstracted flowers…

… ending just in time for the REAL flowers in May!

Bonus: During the last week we’ll do floral artist books using repurposed children’s board books!

Click here for details.

😀

(And have a wonderful day!)

P.S. Seattleites: Don’t forget there’s a live class running concurrently! Details here.

“Flower Crazy” Online Class

01 Thursday Mar 2012

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Carla Sonheim, collage, flower, flower crazy, flowers, gesso, online art class, painting flowers, watercolor

Hello! Lately I’ve been FLOWER CRAZY!

I’ve been hosting online classes for almost two years now, and have long wanted to offer a more in-depth painting class, showing the techniques I’ve developed the last 15 years with watercolor, gesso, collage, and other fun stuff… With the flowers emerging these last two months, everything “clicked.” So here we go!

Five-week class begins April 9th. Go HERE to find out more!

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Hello! I A Seattle-based artist who works with drawing, watercolor, and mixed-media. Hosts online art classes with 15 talented teachers through Carla Sonheim Presents: carlasonheim.com. Author of three instructional art books. Grateful grandma. Read more here.

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