Blossom into the world

There is so much more to you. Share your heart and blossom into the world. You can make a difference."
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color pencil drawing by
Jean Hart

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Blue Moon Stepping Stones

Blue Moon Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones, color pencel, Jean Hart
 

I'm working on a series of small 5" x 7" drawing for the "Blue Moon" series.
It's for a mail Art program I'm registered in.
Blue Moon Stepping Stones,
Reminds of the strength it takes to go it alone. One step at a time. Solo. No one else can take these steps for you. When you are ready, and sometimes even before you think you can. You must try. Whatever it is. Only you can make the decisions for you to move forward. Because as you can see standing still will soon have you in deep water.
Solo, somethings you must do alone.
Be Inspired,
~Jean
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Are you feeling inside the circle, or do you hang outside the circle?

 

Blue Monday

Blue Monday, circles, by artist

Jean Hart

 

Circles, awe, what can I say about circles?

Circles are everywhere, mostly circles are about cycles. No ending, no beginning......

But not when you paint them. There is a beginning, and hopefully the ending,  if your lucky will match up with the beginning again.

Are you feeling inside the circle, or do you hang outside the circle?

My circle, your circle, inside the circle of trust, circle of friends....it goes on, on, and on....

Beware of running around inside the circle's, because a circle once inside can trap you in and hold you there.

I have painted a lot of circles. When I went through a period of mandala paintings. All the mandala paintings are circles.

Circles will make you crazy, but Mondays will make you manic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47v-Zm-9Wgg&feature=player_detailpage

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Technical Tuesday

Technical Tuesday

The days are getting longer and as they do I want to be outside more and more. That means that I have less time in the studio. I have found that if you make a committment to a regular time to do your exercises this time  while become time you look forward to and enjoy.
Today we will be drawing a parrot, by Eileen Sorg.

Apply yellow around the eyes and beak. fill in the pupils and other areas of the eyes with a dark, warm gray, leaving highlights in each eye. Apply this color over the beak, varying the pressure and leaving some areas white to suggest shape. Also stroke in the darks around the beak and within the feathers.

Fill in the irises with red-orange. Then apply bright green to most of the feathers and deepen the beak with black.

fill in the rest of the feathers with teal, overlapping the bright green in places. fill in the pupils cleaving highlights and the holes above the beak with black.




Earth, a vision

 

During the night, a spark came to me,,,,I could not sleep. It's always like that when I take up a new project. I got up and went to the studio and decieded that YES, this new art was worth exploring. So today I will continue on this path. I'm hoping to make a little book from these original fine art pieces......Be Inspired, ~Jean

 

EARTH,
11 X 14
COLORED PENCIL
JEAN ARTWORK
Meandering....the shortest distance between two points may not always be the straightest line...If you can sometimes its fun to travel on the bumpy, curvey and circle road.....I've changed the color of my first painting with the magic of editing and came up with more sutle tones. earthy tones. Somehow I think it's more interesting then the first orginal painting. But it no longer looks like a rose to me, but earth.
Be Inpsried,
~Jean

The Unbroken line

Technical Tuesday

Today's lesson is something I've pulled from a long ago art lesson I learned in junior high school.

Sometimes it's really fun to go back to those early days and return to lessons.

They have a new freedom to them once you get started.

This is called the unbroken line drawing.

1. With a pen, yes a pen, there is no erasing. Start anywhere on the page you like. But the pen must not lift up at any time.
2. Be free with this. I have shown a drawing of  a vase and flowers. The idea is that you can take your finger and follow this line throughout the whole painting.
3. If your happy with your drawing you can then start to color in the spaces.
4. I love this challenge, it gives me freedom to just create. There is no right or wrong way to do this. I think they look very modern and contemporary.
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7. Have fun with this. Once you start you will see that you can make all sorts of landscapes, still life, even portraits.
8. Can yoy remember the Etch-A Sketch? It is the same thing. You are working with one unbroken line. You may be surprised to learn that there are master artist who do nothing but draw on Etch-A Sketch's. Inside the case is aluminum powder and the knobs create a stylus. I had one of these as a kid. I spent hours working with it. But truly,  nothing I creating would ever be called a master piece. Just the same it created hours of fun.
9. Grab a drink and take some time to look at these amazing master pieces of artwork done with a Etch-A Sketch.
10. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-900-s&va=etch+a+sketch+artwork
11. Have fun,
12. Be Inspired,
13. ~Jean
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Technical Tuesday-butterfly

Technical Tuesday

I feel spring on its way. Our lesson today is to learn how to dram a butterfly

Our instructor is Eileen Sorg

1. fill in areas of the wings with bright yellow. Stroke over this with a layer of yellow-orange, and then touch this into the right pupil and antenna.
2. Add red-orange over the yellow-orange. Darken areas of the wings, upper body, right eye, and antennae with reddish brown.
3. Add the purple and blue areas of the wings with bright purple and bright blue. Add true blue to the left eye and antennae.
4. Add black to any empty areas, overlapping some colors. Fill in almost all of both eyes with black, and add some black to the right antenna.
5. Have fun with this, mix up the colors to make all different colored butterfly's.
6. Be Inspired,
7. ~Jean
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A little Coy Fish, Not just a pond fish.

 

The Amazeing Coy Fish

A Little Coy Fish, pen and pencil, by Jean Hart

 

A little Coy Fish, Not just a pond fish.
The word 'coy' in coy fish is derived from koi, the Japanese name for carp. They originated in Eastern Asia, Aral Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea. These are widely cultivated fish in China and Japan. The breeding of these fish first became popular in Japan in the 19th century when farmers accidentally discovered these brightly colored creatures and started to raise them. Gradually it became popular throughout Japan but the rest of the world still was not aware of this kind of fish. When the use of plastic bags became popular, the shipping of coy became faster and safer. Thus their shipping began to other countries, throughout the world. They are now found in most of the pet stores. There are both, the colorful varieties as well as the dull gray variety of coy fish. The word 'coy' in coy fish is derived from koi, the Japanese name for carp. They originated in Eastern Asia, Aral Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea. These are widely cultivated fish in China and Japan. The breeding of these fish first became popular in Japan in the 19th century when farmers accidentally discovered these brightly colored creatures and started to raise them. Gradually it became popular throughout Japan but the rest of the world still was not aware of this kind of fish. When the use of plastic bags became popular, the shipping of coy became faster and safer. Thus their shipping began to other countries, throughout the world. They are now found in most of the pet stores. There are both, the colorful varieties as well as the dull gray variety of coy fish. In Japan this fish symbolizes love and friendship.
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