Lots of Excitement Going On
As my friend Edna says at the end of every email she sends, “Today is a good day!” I had a wonderful day today enjoying our beach and visiting with friends.
Beach
Looks pretty magical, huh? I have to confess that I manipulated this photo in one of my new iPhone apps(tee hee!)
Lots of exciting things are happening here at Joyefulart! First of all, I am participating in a Giveaway at Gussi Sews. Starting tomorrow, Maggie is having a huge Giveaway where she is giving something away every hour. She does this to promote new blogs so go over and visit her tomorrow and enter to win a small print from Joyefulart!
Smiling Faces Watercolor
You guessed it, you may win a giclee of my watercolor, “Smiling Faces”, pretty cool, huh?
I also have started a Featured Artwork of the Month, which you can see at the right side bar. Every month I will have a sale of a special giclee print or original just for that month. This month it is one of my favorites:
Margate in April watercolor
This is a special painting to me. I did this watercolor of our Margate Beach in April when we were alone on the beach and it was oh so tranquil. The original has been sold, but 2 print sizes are available and both are on sale, check it out! Gallery Shop.
I am also teaching a fun and playful Wet into Wet Watercolor Class at the Ventnor Cultural Arts Center in Ventnor, New Jersey, call 609-823-7952 if interested in registering.
Lots of new events and artwork will be coming to Joyefulart, so stay tuned. Just a hint, an upcoming Wellness and Creativity Retreat will be given in the Philadelphia area in the fall by myself and my good friend Rebecca who is an expert on culinary arts and anything exercise related. So much more is coming so keep in touch and stay creative!!
Floral
Read more at: A Day in the Life: Watercolor Pencils.
Wednesday’s Creative Tip: The Odd Guy is In
When designing for a still life painting, or simply setting up a vignette in your home or apartment, keep in mind the odd number strategy. An odd number of items always look more pleasing to the eye than an even number. It is an intuitive feel when looking at a scene that odd is better than even. Take a look:
2 cups of Tea
Looking at the 2 cups makes you feel like it is ordinary, who cares about 2 cups of tea. When adding a 3rd cup, the set up becomes interesting to our eye.
3 Cups of Tea
Oh yes, 3 cups of tea, isn’t that charming? Primordially, the odd number set up is satisfying and more exciting to look at. Not sure if this has been true since the beginning of time, but if you look at very old paintings, the odd number concept is often used.
Try it in your design strategies, whatever you are planning, you will find that it will help in making the set up more pleasing to look at!
Kindred Spirits
Read more creative tips at: Be Green and Make it Yourself.
Joye’s artwork can be bought at : My Gallery Shop.
A Day in the Life: Being Creative, Teaching, and Technology
Sunflowers and Hydrangeas
I taught my adult summer watercolor class this evening. It was a lot of fun as usual. One of the students brought a vintage vase filled with sunflowers and hydrangeas from her garden for us to paint from. It was so stimulating to paint from such color! I started taking pictures of the bouquet from my new iPhone. I love to paint from photographs. It is part of my creative journaling process to photograph things that I think are beautiful in my everyday life so that I can paint from them in the future.
Shakelt Sunflowers
I then remembered this cool application that I downloaded on my phone that transforms photos to polaroid looking photos. It gives it an old fashioned feel. So cool! It makes another version of an awesome still life. We talked in my class about painting and the variation of light that can occur, which is what is happening in these photos, different light, different mood.
Shakelt Orchids
Give it a try if you are able. Technology offers a lot of opportunities to be creative and expand your limits.
Read more about the day in the life of an artist at: My Ocean Series.
Joye’s artwork can be found In My Gallery Shop.
Inspiration Thursday: Skies
Ooooh, it has been a busy but awesome day today. I got my pre ordered iPhone 4. Waited for only an hour, in the heat, and then picked it up, activated it and am having so much fun!
When living a life filled with creativity, almost anything can stimulate you to be creative, like my new toy! Driving in New Jersey around sunset, my husband and I noticed the gorgeous sunset over the bay. We stopped and I snapped a picture of the gorgeous clouds and sun rapidly setting with my new phone. Here it is:
Sky Over Margate Bay
Can you believe the colors?? I uploaded the photo onto my computer in my folder of photos I want to paint from. Who knows what I will do with the picture? Maybe I will paint from it, but maybe I will construct a collage, use the color patterns to knit a new sweater, write about it in my journal, play a melody on my violin in response to its beauty, never can tell. But I have that jewel of a beauty memory saved so I can look at it whenever I want. Oh, and did I mention I love skies??
Read more Inspiration Thursdays at Looking and Seeing.
View some of my artwork often including skies at My Gallery Shop.
A Day in the Life, Ocean Series, Seagull
I have an upcoming art reception this week in Ventnor, New Jersey so I am trying to fill in my Ocean Series paintings. Today I completed a colorful Seagull watercolor from a photo from my friend, Ken. Here is the photo:
Seagull at Barnegat Bay
I envisioned a lot more color:
Seagull
It is interesting this world of color and paint us artists live in, almost a fantasy world, we make the world just a bit more colorful and bright. I guess that is just how I see the environment around me.
Read more joyeful musings at: A View into my Studio.
Joye’s artwork is on sale at My Gallery Shop.
A Day in the Life, Nautical
I am working on paintings for my ocean series now, seeing as I am going to be in an exhibition in Ventnor, New Jersey, the shore as we call it in Philly. I completed another nautical scene yesterday from a photo from my friend Ken.
Baltimore Harbor
This was an image he took of Baltimore, Maryland’s harbor. It is very high key, in other words, has mainly light pastel colors in it. I decided to make it more colorful, as usual!!
Nautical
I think adding more color makes it more magical, almost fantasy like. What do you think?
Read more at:Banana Painting.
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