It's been months since I posted!!  But I've got some interesting work to share today.  I'm in the final week of a 12 week online art class, Art2life CVP 2019, by Nicholas Wilton.  It has been an excellent course.  Well, that's really an understatement.  As far as my artwork goes it has been incredible.  It plugged all the gaps in my art education and extended my knowledge and skills tremendously.

It has also impacted my life in a very positive way. 

Here's what I've been up to since February.

16" x 20"

Acrylics on Canvas

July, 2019.  The biggest challenge was getting the sand and the grass to work.  Loved, loved, loved doing these two little girls.  My Art2life CVP class helped tremendously with this.  My daughter gave me constructive feedback, as well.

Art2life Creative Visionary Program 2019

May 9 - August 8, 2019

This is one of the first paintings I did in my Art2life CVP online class.  We began with black and white so that we could learn the basics of design and value.  What a difference this has made in how I think about my work.  I'll be forever grateful to Nicholas Wilton for teaching this and for teaching it the way he and his team did.

Because I worked on so many paintings at a time (8 - 18) I won't share the progression of each one.  Instead, I've chosen the one below because it retains some pretty obviously identifiable characteristics to the end.  You can see the changes I made in it over time as I learned and applied more and more information and skills.

We painted over our black and white paintings using a limited color palette.  The skills we were learning were value and design, the most important skills taught on the course.

Then, we started learning to cover areas of the painting that we didn't love.

In the Color Module we saw how to mix color to create harmony in our paintings.  We  added more color.  There was continued emphasis on loud and quiet conversations in the painting.

Differences in marks became a challenge and an exploration. I analyzed areas of the painting to determine what I liked and  continued to make changes based on the principles I was learning.

More mark-making but more subtle.  A huge piece was added at this point:  glazing.  I learned to use glazing as another way to harmonize the color.

Glazed with a different color, sanded back through layers to get more texture and to retrieve some elements from earlier versions, added collage element and all that's left, now is the sealer and framing.  This piece gives me a feeling of calm and peacefulness.