Day 2817:The best Easter gift.

"Alice": china marker, acrylic & gesso on 9x12 canvas

 Alice is a canvas done quickly as a demo in a past class.

She has been sitting in my studio giving me looks.

She seems unhappy and requesting a makeover.

Even the background chimed in. 

So I will, sometime soon. I think. Stay tuned?

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After 32 day confinement, (or as artist-friend Susan, 

 aka the "jetsetter" calls it, house arrest) my first big holiday. 
Valentine's Day doesn't count when you live alone. 

At 4:30 pm, I got a call on my cell, it was a face-time 

but I didn't realize since I never use facetime, it's 2 way!

Grandhunk #1 was looking at me saying, "we're outside!"

 I was mid-nap but glad to get up and go with my phone ready.

GH#3, WW, GH#2, GH#1 & SM

GH#3, WW, some of GH#2, almost GH#1

SM

a bit of GH#2, GH#1

WW & GH#2

GH#!

A Happy Easter indeed.

Someday real hugs again.

2GN2S:

Miss England 2019 Bhasha Mukherjee, who hung up her crown to continue her work as a doctor during the coronavirus pandemic. Mukherjee was a junior doctor when she won the title and was participating in charity work in India when the outbreak began. Colleagues kept messaging her telling her how dire the situation back home was, so she contacted her old hospital, the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, eastern England, and told them she wanted to return to work. In Ireland, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar felt a similar calling. Varadkar worked as a doctor for seven years before becoming a politician. He's rejoined the medical register and will work one shift a week to help during the pandemic

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NASA is showing you the picture the Hubble Space Telescope took on your birthday: Just select your birthday month & day, the generator will reveal a photo from its collection, here.

Here's what mine looked like and the information On December 11 in 2005  Galaxy M81

"The arms of the "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars.
The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming."

Smiles for Monday ...

 

 

 

 

Day 2762: Come join us if you can?

"Rustica": magazine collage.

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Click here for the PS22 Chorus, Hallelujah

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We have room, come join us if you can?

Mixed Media Faces: Fun and Fantasy

Two more Thursdays, February 20 & 27, 2020 -- 10AM - 1PM

Every Thursday, join Jacki Long for a project focused on creating a unique portrait. Use fabric, collage, acrylic, watercolor, paint markers, and more during this fun class. Each session, experiment with a different technique and combine as many mediums as you wish. All materials provided.

REGISTRATION:  $45 per session. Ages 16+. Skill level: All.

Limited seats are available for these classes, so sign up today!

In last Thursday's class, the  class worked on a 12x12" 

wood substrate as seen in Day 2758, here. 

As usual, we start class with a warm-up activity.

This time it was a quick portrait on 12x18" heavy paper. 

I did a 5-minute demo using both gesso  & graphite on 

brick-colored paper, using a long-handled medium 1" brush.

I mixed a skin tone acrylic, letting the paper show through.

Not pretty, but fun and it was loose and had promise. 

No need to finish then, as we moved to the wood.

 Thursday (02/20/2020)we will be working on 16 x 16" canvas. 
My goal is always a relaxed, fun class for the artists.

Please come join us if you can?

A smile for Tuesday ...

Day 2336: A step-by-step, in progress.

Generations: graphite, acrylic on canvas

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J. S. Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute

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I was going to wait until this one was done to post 

a step-by-step, but knowing my procrastination skills ...

I decided to post what I have as of today.

In the giant canvas class, I demo on a 30 x 40' canvas

like the artists are also using. I wanted to show a quick way

of covering a big canvas to start.

 

Using a credit card & acrylics, I filled most of the canvas 

quickly. Assuring them don't worry, we can fix anything. 

They started and I encouraged. 

When the class was working well, I went back to my canvas.

In my effort to show them to "go for it", 

I unintentionally made quite a mess. 

So it seemed a perfect opportunity to show how we can fix it.

Doesn't she look like she's thinking, "what's on your head?" 

The class got busier, and I left it like that for quite a while. 

I studied it & later used gesso on the black body as well. 

 

It wasn't until the end of class when I used up some leftover 

paint to work on the older sister, or mother, or grandmother?

I feel it is 90+% done. I am happy with the faces & colors. 

 

I could rework her a little, but probably won't.

And I really like older Sister, Mother or Grandmother.

The faces don't match in technique but that doesn't seem 

to bother me. Maybe  generational thing?

 

I'd like to have a canvas of just this ... OS, M or G?

and because I always seem to want to try another ...

 

so a digitized version of OS, M or G?

Thanks so much for stopping by and I especially

want to thank you for taking time to comment,

I really love to get feedback.

 

64 degrees, Partial clouds, Santa Ana, CA.

A smile for Tuesday ...