Last week I told myself I would finish my taxes on Monday.
But, after last week’s artist date I wanted another one. I thought about it all weekend and instead of doing my taxes I spent the day painting.
The whole idea of BIG painting first came about when I watched the video “Raghava KK: Five Lives of an Artist” that Connie had posted at Dirty Footprints Studio.
Then she pointed me in the direction of Chris Zydel, from Creative Juices Arts. I was in awe!
Reading “Is This You?” touched a part of me I didn’t know existed.
Suddenly I wanted to art journal BIG and paint BIG.
So that is how I spent my second artist date. Painting. BIG Painting.
My old art journal is about 8″ x 12″.
My new, BIG art journal is 18″ x 24″.
See for yourself…
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My first BIG art journal page:
BIG Art Journaling
I still had the desire to paint so I turned to a fresh page. But, where to start? What should I paint?
Where to start?
Maybe another art journal page?
So I started by adding two B&W photo’s of myself.
Maybe another art journal page
Sandy 2010
Sandy 1983
Funny how much I look the same even though more than twenty-five years separates these two photos.
The captions I chose or each picture gave me the courage to try and paint for real; to attempt my first watercolor.
The B&W photo from 1983 was actually taken while I was in drafting class. I was in the midst of a designing a house and drawing up all the blueprints.
These led me to pull a picture of house I have in my dream book.
This is the house I decide to paint.
And, this is how it turned out.
My First Watercolor - Dream House
Pretty good for my first attempt to paint a picture with watercolors.
By the way, I love painting BIG.
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Way to go, Sandy! It looks great!
Love your BIG art journal page, Sandy! Great job on the house, too!
You are way braver than me, I have a hard time painting on anything bigger than a 5x7ish size. I’m terrified of painting big…
But, I have been painting in watercolor for awhile… I like your first attempt, I can tell you use other kinds of paint normally. For your next Big Painting (or artist date) try this: don’t start with an image you want to make, just wet the whole page (go big or go home right?) and start randomly dropping watercolor on. You can tip the page to make the paints blend in the water… you can try dropping salt on parts, or putting seran wrap over other parts (wait till totally dry to remove). That way you’ll get to really play with watercolor… When it’s all done it can be the whole painting or you can start painting an image over the background. Based on the work you showed here I think you’ll really like playing with this….
Yours,
Megan
p.s. let me know if you do it, I’d love to see what you end up with!
I love it, Sandy!