Pink & Green Mountains Linda Rupard

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This is a collage I finished up today, sorry about the glare but I can't seem to get a non glare photo for some reason today.

Skull Collage in progress Linda Rupard

I am working on this skull collage 12x12 cradle board.  May take out the pots & rug behind the skull,  working in acrylic & collage.  Also working on a 24 X 24 skull & mountain acrylic on 24 X 24  cradle board canvas.  Hopefully I will have both finished by next week to post .  Everything slowed down again because I am also trying to get my studio going again after it flooded  and I lost lots of things.  We are still going through & throwing away things that got too wet to save I hated to loose the area carpet we had just had in for a week but it had to go.    Husband sealed the area where  we think water came in I am looking at carpet tiles this time so they will be easier to replace if something does get spilled or dropped  on carpet.  Though it could flood again if we get 10 inches of rain.  The only time I have ever saw that happen here  in our area of West TX.    I am saving all the outside edges for painting & only carpeting  in the middle of the studio  area.  I didn't want just cement for all the floors.  I  may paint that part later on.

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Rose Trellis Linda Rupard

I went to Lamesa last week ,  been awhile & I enjoyed the class & visiting with friends.  My friend Estelle went with me & we got lots of art talking &  got to paint some too .  I painted this from a photo I had taken in a GroceryStore floral shop.  The young Lady was glad for me to take photos because I wanted to paint  her creations.   I started with washes & the lilies  & roses became something else  or very  different  then the original photo.  We are still working to get the studio into shape after it flooded.  I guess a working artist's studio is always  an ongoing change & organizing but maybe someday it will get there.

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Evelyn Boren's Demo

This is a photo of Evelyn Boren's demo.  at  Santa Fe art expo.   I missed most of her demo because I couldn't find the right room but got to see Evelyn  splatter  a blend of Yellow WC  plus Gouache onto the light part of the trees.  Contact Evelyn for info about this painting.  Leada my friend is in Santa Fe & Taos area for the fall color    Leada sent me a great photo of  of some of that gold showing in the trees so color is showing up if anyone can make the trip .

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Suzanne McNeil workshop Linda Rupard

Click to contact the artist for more information about this painting. More excited classes at the Santa Fe Expo. I was fortunate to be able to take a Zentangle & Watercolor class from Suzanne McNeil who has had several books published on Zentangle & is a certified teacher of Zentangle. Suzan went to the creators of Zentangle Rick Roberts & Maria Thomas and learned from them so She become a certified Teacher. Many Zen patterns (tangles) were inspired by Indian henna, Celtic art, Zuni & Native American pottery and Islamic tiling. I had trouble getting the patterns down right so just added more lines. So glad Suzan says that no mistakes are made in Zentangle. So you can just go with them & create .

Tom Lynch Workshop Linda Rupard

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I feel so lucky to have been able to go to Santa Fe  to the Art Expo  event last week.  I had workshops with 3 fun teachers.    First  WS was with Tom Lynch.  First we were treated to a demo then using our own photos we drew our photo on a small piece of watercolor paper.  Tom showed us how he would paint it on each one's sketch.

Then we tried to paint it like Tom did.   Then he checked each one & critiqued them correcting each one.    For Tom's class you have to use Gemini paper (made in England & distributed  by Stratmore)   it is easy to correct mistakes ,  lift color &  then have the ability  to repaint over the scrubbed  area.  Wonderful paper which I will try to use  some more.  I have always  worked on  140 cold press Arches paper which has been my favorite paper for a long time.

Jury still out on which one will become  my favorite paper.  More Expo fun in next post. Above Tom demo's, first painting is Tom's small demo on my sketch, second painting is mine.  I decided to put clouds over my mountains after I got home.  The chart is found in Tom's book along with many more.  Yes, I had to have a signed Tom Lynch book.

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I'm back and  I did this Shoe on a wood cradle board.  Sorry about the glare.     I had painted the background first & after I collaged the shoe I decided to just leave the background instead of collaging.  Sides are painted ready for hanging.  Showing 2 photos so you can see all the background.