Carol Ann Conners Art Journal

Microscopic

Inktober 52 Week 12 Microscopic

This prompt brought me back to high school biology class when we looked at plant matter under a microscope. As a life long gardener, I have a fondness for plants.

Hazy Morning, Little House 6″ x 6″

Miniature Painting Challenge #3 from Acrylic University

Two miniature paintings in one day – on this morning and one this afternoon!

Mountain Reflection 6″ x 6″

Acrylic

Mountain Reflection is lesson 2 of the Miniature Painting Challenge with Acrylic University. With this painting I used the half-hour timer that was used during the lesson. The paint does start to dry fast, so it was a good time to stop. On to the next lesson. I am a few weeks behind.

#11 Spaceship

It took me some time to figure out how to proceed with this Inktober52 prompt. A couple of days ago, I brought along a pad of marker paper, a drawing pencil and an eraser to keep me occupied in the car, while Greg had an appointment. It was a cold morning, and the landscaping was a lovely distraction. Drawing a spaceship? I would rather sketch the budding trees. Imagination can be so much fun. I thought about my Granny Carol and her husband, a WWII Army Air Corps Colonel and an inventor. One of his inventions was a “bra” to protect the front of airplanes from ice. His drafting tools are still in my grandmother’s desk. So I channeled Colonel Godfrey Speir and sketched.Later, I used my parent’s wedding China to make the oval shape. I let it go for a couple of days, so I could figure out what to do next.

Today, It all came together. I mixed up my own ink by using Kuretake Zig Ink Stick mixed with water in a Kuretake Zig Bokuchi Suzuri stone reservoir. This was in my October 2020 Sketchbox Kit. This Sumi ink is easy to make and is fun to use. Fun!

A Creek in Oregon

This was today’s live lesson from Acrylic University.

I used black paper and primed it with pthalo blue before the class. This was the first time that I painted water with acrylic paint.

Sunlight Through the Trees

6″ x 6″

This is my interpretation of lesson one from Acrylic University. What I like about acrylic paint is that you can paint over your mistakes.

Powerful

Inktober52 #10

Copic, Faber Castell, Kuretake, Karin, Sketch Marker Graphix and Tombow pens on Strathmore Marker paper

Sunset

9″ x 12″

Acrylic on Black Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress Paper

Egg

Inktober52 #9 Egg

The chickadee nest was abandoned and was found in the rhododendron by the back door.

8″ x 11″ Copic, Kuretake, Tombow, Faber-Castell and TRIBLEND Noir Spectrum pens on Hahnemuhle Harmony paper

Trembling Aspens

9″ x 12″ Acrylic on Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress Black Paper

Last night was Friday Night Live with Acrylic University host Jed Dorsey who was joined remotely by special guest artist, Dianna Shyne – two artists painting from a photograph of trembling aspen trees in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I participated and painted along with others as we listened to the artists talk. It was so much fun!

I have happy memories of camping on Prince Edward Island with my childhood family. And during the pandemic I have been rereading the Anne of Green Gables series of books by L.M. Montgomery.