Squam Art Workshops Day 1: Layered Lines

l'air gamine
images are transfers from 1950s Chatelaine magazine and clip art
Workshop: Layered Lines
Teacher: Diana Fayt
Key materials: graphite and charcoal pencils, oil pastels, heavy weight drawing paper, chalk pastel for image transfers, brushes and Turpenoid Natural for blending the oil pastel colours, gouache for finishing touches
goddess
line art is an image transfer from my 2005 mandala series
What I learned: how to paint with oil pastels - they were a new medium for me; how to transfer an image from one piece of paper to another using a chalk pastel and a pen (soooo easy!); how to let go of the final outcome and focus on practice & learning how to work with the materials; to persevere
I was unsure of my ability to produce anything I liked in this class since my imagination and drawing skills weren't quite sharpened, but thanks to an easy-peasy image transfer process Diana taught us I managed to come up with something of which I'm proud. Diana also taught us to not be afraid to colour over lines and that not everything has to be realistic. Hair can be blue. Really.


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Reader Comments (3)
Steph! These are gorgeous! One thing I love about your work is that it often has a feminine, ethereal theme and these are no exception. Just lovely!
I missed seeing you at Squam this year, and have vowed to go back to NH next year.
xxox
Amy
these are fantastic!! so love :-)
loved that I got to see these in person, they were great.
Karen from ElDorado