Heather Eddy Art

I won't lie, yesterday was a little depressing for me art-wise. Fortunately, I know now how to fix that! Back to hearts I went and I feel so much better now. Aussie Red Gold was the anchor color in my experimentations. I paired it with Moonglow, Quin Purple, Prussian Blue, Prussian Green and Jadeite. The pile of finished hearts is growing and it feels so good! (I totally just said that in Dr. Strange's voice - haha) Aah! Look at that starburst of white on the left! I die! The white is what really makes this one work. Salt created little stars and I'm in love! The orange-y-ness is orange-y This was a surprise winner - moonglow separates into viridian, red & something else. Pure magic.  This reminds me of a flag. If I do this combo again, I'll try to be a little freer with the placement.  As I was leaving work, the clouds were rolling in right in front of me. By the time I was home, it had started sprinkling. When I got inside, greeted ...

This morning I greeted a coworker with the cheery salutation, "Beware the Ides of January!" She gave me the blank look that told me she hadn't been forced to read Julius Caesar in high school.  Instead of Julius getting whacked, the Ides foretold doom on tonight's art practice. Let me share the disaster: Perhaps another night I'll be able to say "All's well that ends well." Tonight is not that night.

Today I spent some time researching "writer's voice". I feel like I've got a gag on my inner voice when I try to write. If you look at my oldest blogs (cringe), I have a much different tone - not one I'm proud of. I am not the same person now that I was then and I want to reflect that in my new writings.  If I'm not able to express myself,  it will feel like I haven't grown as much as I know I have!  While I think on this, here are some hearts. 

I know what I want to do, but I have to make a color chart first. I haven't done one of these for years, since my collection of paints outgrew my ability to make meaningful charts.  Unfortunately,  I spent so much time setting up the chart that i used up both my time and energy. So it's off to bed now, but tomorrow night is a clear schedule.  Fingers crossed it stays that way...

I added a few more areas of contrast and think it's done. Now, off to read!

Tonight I finished watching the final segment of my Laura Horn art class called Watercolor Explorations. To prepare for the final piece, we were directed to take a look at all the work we'd done and choose the parts of everything we liked best: color swatches, mark making, and bleeding/hard edge samples. I decided to work with four main colors (moonglow, mayan blue, transparent red oxide & white). I wanted to make sure I balanced my hard & soft edges (that's something I've never tried before in paintings and I'm really enjoying it). After I laid down the initial layers of paint, I looked for places that needed a different pop of color. I added some purple madder for contrast and some quinacridone gold deep for warmth & a yellow glow.  Then I watched paint dry. moonglow disperses into the most beautiful colors - it's like getting 3 colors in one!  One of the accidental shapes I did in my exercises was a doughnut hole in a circle. ...

Tonight I listened to a TEDxBYU talk by Brian Kershisnik called " Harvesting from Chaos ". I've loved Brian's work since I was in college. I'm unsure what brought him into my classroom to talk with/to my teacher Doug Himes, but I saw some of his art when he was there and it took my breath away. There are just some things you know are great the first time you see them. Brian's work was amazing. He drew beautiful pictures of cedar trees (corndog trees), women in shift-type dresses and used beautiful colors like robin's egg blue and white and green and well, they were magical. His style ended up in my work a lot and I've had to be very cognizant that I do not copy him now (but I still do in my mind). His style has seeped into a lot of contemporary LDS artists and I don't want to be considered a satellite to him. Brian talked about creation and how chaos provides the material for creation. He told stories of going on study abroad to England and a ...