Comparing Two Paintings

Which of these two paintings do you like best? The first one reminds me of pastel bubbles; the second makes me think of a delta.  Both of these designs are now on all kinds of things that will brighten your home and wardrobe!  They’re having a 20% sale today.

I really ADORE these paint pours and am looking forward to warmer weather when I can make more!

Society6 Color Cat Studios

Creativity

This is so true.  It’s all of these things, but really, it’s a lot of seriously hard work. When I had my shoulder surgery last May people would say, ‘well, since it’s your left shoulder you can still paint!’  Nope.  Pain is a big distraction.  So many things have to happen in order for a person to be able to be creative.

Homeschool Art Classes

These print making days have turned out to be really fun for boy my students and myself.  LOVE making prints!

As  you can see here, some of my printing plates are repeated patterns.  Their assignment is to brainstorm with thumbnails for their own repeated patterns. Can’t wait to see what the students design!

I teach homeschool students ages 9-18 in two locations: www.hisclasses.org and www.ttcclasses.com.  I don’t take students mid-year but our schedule for 2020-2021 will be up around the end of April. Here are the links:

The Training Center Classes

HIS Classes

Cheer Up Your Day!

On these winter days are you longing for something just a little cheery to brighten your day?  Well, these will! Sometimes it’s the little things.  You can find my art on all sorts of lovelies at this site:  

Society6 Color Cat Studios

Society6 Artist

Did you KNOW?  All wall art at Society6 is 40% off for Presidents’ Day sale! https://society6.com/product/raccoon2599068_framed-print?curator=colorcatstudios. That means my adorable Raccoon!  You asked for him... here he is in whatever size or frame you want! :)

Society6, Color Cat Studios

Making Prints in The Woodlands

Still making prints over here.  This is a linoleum block.  They’re quite easy to carve; a LOT easier to carve than wood!  Also with wood you can pull maybe only 100 prints before the wood swells and shrinks too much.  These lino blocks can go a long time if you’re careful.

If you want to start easy with print making, you can actually do it on a styrofoam meat tray from the grocery store with a pencil and some acrylic paint.  That’s super basic but a good way to get a feel for the process.  I always use printer’s ink because it’s the perfect viscosity for all the details.  There are SO many ways to print and I love them ALL!

Art Class Printmaking

My classes for the next few weeks will be doing print making. Here are some artist trading cards I made in preparation. If you’re NOT in my classes, I’ll still swap; give me a holler. Some of the qualities in art that I find important are layers, texture, color and contrast.  Hopefully you can find those things here. If you want to learn a little more, look for my video on these cards which I will post right after this. Once my students get a handle on making prints with some of the elements I just mentioned I’m going to have them make artist trading cards so we can all trade. FUN!

Cool, huh.  Note how the colors change with the light.  These are special, handmade watercolors.