An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

Smooth sailing in our holiday travel so far. I am posting this from Paducah, KY this morning where it is sunny and chilly (40 degrees). We ...

A quick sketch...just the perfect thing to do on a rainy evening in central Florida! As you can see from yesterday's post there is a pl...

Muse: a woman, or a force personified as a woman, who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. Note: the "s" in muse is...

I finally got down to view the show today! Its been hanging for weeks! Gee, I was pleasantly surprised at the airy and large room we were ...

Today was my day to think more "abstractly" . Starting with the black and white photo and then moving back up to the top, you can...

What a special treat. Rhonda's beautiful collage/watercolor arrived yesterday! Thank you Thank you! It's just beautiful .

One nice thing about art groups is that they introduce you to some things you'd never expect to know about. The German Expressionist mov...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...