so what have i been up to.....?

well......

i continued with the Be Your Own Beloved self-portraiture class.....

me and my willow, my willow and me

and someone sent me a very interesting piece of parking garage art i couldn't resist.....

i added an aerograph filter, then blended it back into the original photograph

my self-portrait assignment encouraged me to deal with my inner critic, so i blended in some more images......

summoning the demon-slayer

the post about your art-journal reminded me of Keri Smith's 'wreck this box' project, a rather unusual way of journaling, but i got the books out anyway and really got into the art of destruction.... lol!

then, inspired by your color studies i decided to go out and sample some colors myself....

from nature i took some different shades of green.....

in town i found more variety:  vibrant primary colors but also different hues of skin....

then back to nature, for some more subdued transparent browns and blues

ahhh....to be able to reproduce these on a canvas...... just imagine!

as you know we are renovating the house and building a studio for me. as long as the building is going on, i have no creative workspace , so i decided to design a portable pop-up painting-studio

here it is!

now i can push all my art stuff around the room and paint wherever i want!

finally, while at Ikea to buy the trolley, i had lots of fun with that day's self-portraiture assignment: playing with mirrors. 

mirror, mirror, on the wall...

so...now it's your turn again!