March 25, 2024
More Than I Bargained For
I’ve admired the art of Michelle Nyberg for some months now. Then, to my great delight, just as I was recently feeling betwixt and between, casting about for a new art inquiry, she offered a downloadable class.
YES!
With impulsivity that is perhaps more characteristic of me than I might want to admit, I grabbed two Blick student quality paints—(elegantly named) blue medium and yellow medium—along with black and white, my art journal, and a roll of painter’s tape.
Got myself going.
But what I thought would become four backgrounds with dark values turned out instead to be four backgrounds with mid-range values.
So now I have set myself up for more challenge than I’d bargained for.
Experiment #2:
3 x 3.5; acrylic, ink, and paper and fabric collage on art journal page
floral
2024
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6 responses to “More Than I Bargained For”
A challenge is always up for me, so I might as well be up for it in return! I’m pleased with this piece and its process which was one of letting go of planning mindfully in advance. Instead, I mindfully made a first move, then a next move, then a next, until it felt complete.
Keep spying: there are TWO little pieces of fabric, though one got somewhat lost visually b/c my next-move-next-move process didn’t protect it as well as planning ahead might have!
Gosh, you’re still without power. I’ve thought of you often since your post last night.
As you no doubt knew as soon as you read this title, I had you in mind when Boy Howdy became part of it!
Thank you for the feedback on what you referred to as the ‘three brights—teal, orange, and purple;’ your comment made me mindful of my use of the neutrals which, I think now, I thought of in only more limited terms as contrast, when I selected them for this piece.
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