From my course, DRAWN LINES. Kathy is a student and these are her first drawings in her hand-made book: types of lines, a simple drawing, and a walk with line. Join Kathy for FREE, and become an editor of sort (a critic) to help me make the course better for others, who later pay for the 15 lessons. The next is textures. Come and have fun!  Pencil and paper is all you need for these simple, short, and successful sketches.

Sign up at the right where you see 'Course for DRAWN LINES!'

WE ARE ALL ARTISTS.

The Tiny Book Project - a small tiny book!

SKETCHBOOK PROJECT sign-up!

 Hard to sketch in details on the pages of the amazing little sketch book, which is  3 X 2 inches.

Join my drawing course!

Art is fun and easy. 
We have the ABILITY.
 
Come on the journey with line. This how-to-study will help you see lines that are around you everywhere, which you organized as Drawn Line sketchbook. Sign up here on this page, or on my Facebook Art Page.

The fifteen lessons are relaxing and playful. Simple rules, no mistakes just drawing lines with pencils, a tool used during our school days. A device that is perfect for experimentation. If you don’t have a sketchbook, we will make one. If you want, use a piece of paper for each lesson, even on a post-it pad, or any surface you like. Remember, the larger the size of the paper the more time you spent on sketching. When done with our study, you will have many works of ART! 

WE ARE ALL ARTIST!


HOLIDAYS SALE

My hand-made papers and books are on sale at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda, CA.

Come and visit December 7 and 21 from 2 to 5 pm, I will be in the gallery. The ART Recpetion is December 14, 2018 from 7 to 9 pm.

Decisive for StketchBook Project

Decisive is the title of my piece for the Sketchbook project Infinite Sketch, which will be on display in a huge, mega art piece with of all the cards. 

The Sketchbook Project kicked off this new challenge. “Think of it as an endless visual story, connecting people around the globe through a single format. More than a stand alone art project, Infinite Sketch is a way of connecting with people from around the galaxy.” My entry prompted by the word ‘decisive’ is on a card 5” by 7”. The Infinite Sketches when combined will be in a physical and digital exhibition of one very long piece of art! EXHIBITION DATE is to announced.

Art Show - Simple Pleasures

Simple Pleasures is open to public from October 5 to December 22, 2018 at Frank Bette Center for the Arts on 1601 Paru Street, off Lincoln Avenue, in Alameda, CA. The center is open Thursdays to Saturdays from 11 am to 5 pm.  I will be there on October 26, November 9, and 30th, December 7, and 22nd from 2 to 5, please come and visit. The Center is cozy and friendly in an old store front.

 



In the show, I have three pieces of my cut flowers painted with acrylics. 
This is a group show, come, and buy a piece of art.

"Repurposed" ART SHOW 9/9/2018

 

free OAKAND UP

One of five basket plates.

'Repurposed,' an art show with art pieces made from recycled art papers, baskets plates, yarns, threads, beads, small boxes, and dried plants or whatever looked interesting for art, is up for viewing September and October. The artists' reception is Sunday, September 9, 2018 from noon to 4 pm. The pieces in the show are for FREE for those visitors who sign-up for them.
What fun is that!

The pieces were done while the artists-in-residence, Bobbie Kinkead and Kelly Hunter, came on Thursdays to create at the FREE Oakland UP, Thrift Shop and Art Gallery.

And also the same day as the Artists' Reception is the monthly plant sale ran by Jocelyn, the propritor, who organizes succulents, begoinas, plus other plants to pay for her enterprising business venture.

Kelly Hunter is to show her tiny box art.

Art Pieces at Frank Bette Gallery

So three line pieces of mine are in an art show at Frank Bette Gallery from mid-June to mid-August. The show came in line with the Drawn Lines blogs, which I just finished. Come to the artist open house on July13 and view the art and the museum, a story front for a furnisher store, give to the public for an art Museum, quite unique.

Thursday - Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm, 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, CA 94501. Phone 510-523-6957.

Blog Road Trip

Okay - there were lots of bloggers in the A2Z  - 2018 blog challenge; here is your chance to view their blogs and see and read different and intriguing trips of interest around the vast linked lines of the web.

  "Visit blog in the #AtoZChallenge Road Trip!"

Reflections about Drawn Lines

Read others reflections about their blogs.

So I'm done with 2018 A2Z Blogging Challenge, What a fast, busy, researching, blogging month. Just as the neighbor mows his grass of weeds, the junior high students yell joy at spring, the passer-by's walk and the cars, Bart, and motorcycles race home from work. What busy noises!  And I'm sitting in the sun knowing I reached my goals for the blog challenged --> how-to-draw lines. My cats are patiently sitting in their chairs, and I have a beautiful view of my garden stretching to the busy street. Rubbing my eyes again wondering why the noise on this warmest of warm days, I feel content.

On reflection, the noise is the celebration of new growth, happy teenagers, busy shoppers, and satisfied workers rushing home to enjoy their evening. The chatter and sounds are the joy I am calmly hearing, watching and observing, once again drawing lines from my garden; the artist is the observer. AND, I do have a course and a book I can publish.

Remember, we are creative. You are the artist that uses pencil, pens, chalks, paints, garden to make lines, the detail, the textures, and values. Lines tell us the viewers what you the artist want us to observer, enjoy, and to be inspired. We see a visual story. Lines take us place. Lines go everywhere. Lines are varied, different. Anything can make a line on any surface.


Also, I did the NaNoWriCamp challenge during April.
 

 




 






Here is the sketchbook created during the A2Z April 2018 challenge about Drawing Lines.