An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

This is the first, wildest, wisest thing I know: the soul exists...it is built entirely out of attentiveness.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Aren't you glad the banner is done? Both sides!

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Yes, it is. It just has to dry throughly and let me look at it a few days. Here is the back side. I decided on a much more "painterly...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Banner Complete!!!

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I know, I know. You were thinking this would never get done!!! Well, hahaha. Of course, the last laugh is on me, as I have THE OTHER SIDE...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

OH no...not that banner again.

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Yes, you are stuck working through this with me! I promise, it won't be much longer. I have to turn it in a week from today. Greg and...
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Slogging On....Can I Do This?

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Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out. ( E. Joseph Cossman ) All kinds of things...planned and unplanned are un...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Moving along on the Banner

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Several folks have asked again what the support for the banner is...what am I painting ON? The banner is canvas..fairly heavy weight. It h...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Starting Out on a Banner

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Now this is my first banner. Oh boy. Here I go. But I HAVE to get this done like right away and get it in to the Mt. Dora Chamber of Comm...
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Rethinking my poured painting

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I've had so many supportive and interesting suggestions about this poured painting...all VERY excellent ideas. The first one is actuall...
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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Mt. Dora Plant & Garden Fair

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What an absolutely gorgeous day to be out photographing people, flowers, tents, and darling wagons of all colors and sizes. Mt. Dora is jus...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Pouring Part Three

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Well, that's all the time I have for today...it's a VERY warm painting. Not quite as much dark dark as I had originally planned but...
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Pouring Part II

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Okay...so since I didn't stretch this paper (bad girl) what I did do is wet the paper throughly, do the pour then staple the wet paper ...

Doing a Pour Part One

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You will remember awhile back I put together a nice value study based on Deb Ward's photo in a quilt shop? Then I worked on it with wat...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Color Mixing

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There's nothing like a good basic review of color and color mixing. Our park here in FL is SO blessed with having some very experienced...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

Portrait Challenge at Hawthorne Park

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The first of the portraits done in the challenge here at the Fine Arts Club at Hawthorne Park have appeared. Each one wonderfully unique! J...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

All-Saint's Day

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Today is All Saints' Day , and Pope Julius II chose this day in 1512 to display Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sist...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Step Four

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Well, there went Saturday afternoon! :-) You know how it is when you are just playing around with paint! Of course, I flew past a lot of ...
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Step Three

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Donna redraws things a lot and I am not good at that or am not patient enough for that. So once I had the value sketch done, I took a light...
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Step Two

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So then I get out some tracing paper... and I am not following Donna's steps quite as she does...but then we are all different, right? ...

Step One

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Okay...so this is how it is going to go. I have just finished watching Donna Zagotta's DVD called The You Factor. She works in OPAQUE w...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Fine Art Open House a Success!

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Here are just a few of the "booths" at our fine arts open house this morning. That's me with the artist trading cards/waterco...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

ATCs: S-l-o-w-l-y Getting Brushes Wet Again

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The world of ATCs (or Artist Trading Cards has fascinated me for some time. When I was at Cheap Joe's I found this little packets of pr...
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Ginny Stiles
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
I live in Madison, Wisconsin and summer for a few months in Lac du Flambeau, WI. I teach watercolor, mixed media and Zentangle classes.
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