Week two, results of 'get your paint on'

 This weeks assignment for get your paint on was so cool.  We should allow ourselves to try something we hadn’t tried before, inspired by an artist we admire. I chose Claude Monet, and more specifically his outragesly beautiful water lilies series!

 

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Week one, results of 'get your painting on'

The first wonderful week of my e-course with Mati and Lisa is done now.  The inspiration for these works were the wonderful Gee's Bend quilts. And I guess this is my interpretation of them. I must admit that it’s hard to show them in a public place like this because they truly were made from a study and learning point of view. I tried some stuff I haven’t done in a long time. Like working solely in abstract form here, and trying to play with a few layers. I have no clue yet if they are any good. So if they’re not, I’d love to hear some constructive feedback on them. I’m in this to learn and I ain’t afraid of some good critique, just fire away…

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My sister's got talent!

 I’m telling you, my sister has got such an amazing talent. She sadly enough has been hiding it from people because she feels  too shy to come forward with her fantastic paintings. Last week she called me up out of the blue if I could help her open an Etsy shop. I could not believe my ears! I jumped on it right away and took some test pictures. It was a bit too dark in the room so we can’t use them for her shop but they do give some idea of what she does.

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