The leaves here seem to be having a hard time changing colors this year. The weather is so dry, the leaves are just dying and falling off the trees instead of changing to those beautiful colors I am so used to seeing. It is supposed to rain tomorrow and then for several days. Maybe that will help.
Painting this one was great fun!
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Pumpkin
It's finally starting to feel like fall here. Less humidity in the air. A certain crispness to it that I love. I'm enjoying my online class with Laure - it makes me look even more closely at the world around me. And what a beautiful world it is!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
White Pumpkin
This is an excercise from Laure Ferlita's Fall Class. It looks so simple - it gave me a FIT! First, I did it on the wrong paper and then it just went down hill from there! LOL Learned a lot though.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Dindelion
Another class assignment from Laure Ferlita's class. I am having a great time trying to follow her assignments.
Indigo Bunting
Using tips from a great art teacher (Laure Ferlita) I tried to tweak some of the details of my Indigo Bunting. I like it better, but it still isn't what I had hoped for.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Indigo Bunting (Low Tec)
This was an assignment for my class with Laura. Having a great time and experimenting with lots of materials. Lots of things I would do differently on this one, but I learned sooooo much!
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Tye Dye 2
I decided that I wanted the story written on the journal page but did not want it on top of my work. The butterfly was collaged on and the writing behind it.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Tye Dye
On a recent art day with my art buddies, we tie dyed shirts. Great fun - but the amazing thing was that as I held my wet dyed shirt in my hands, a butterfly came and sat on my shirt. He just sat there - and sat there. Of course before anyone could get their hands on a camera, he left. Great day. Great memory.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
View
In one of Nelson DeMille's novels the main character had been shot multiple times and barely escaped with his life. When asked how he managed to survive, he stated, "with gunshot wounds it's like real estate...location, location, location." I feel the same way about the view from my kitchen.
Cape Lookout
I had the opportunity to spend a few days with some of my art teacher buddies in July at the beach. We had great fun catching up and spent one of our days at Cape Lookout. We took a water taxi over to the island and got to see a few of the wild horses of the Outer Banks of NC. The horses were a first for me. A great day and a great experience!
I had the opportunity to spend a few days with some of my art teacher buddies in July at the beach. We had great fun catching up and spent one of our days at Cape Lookout. We took a water taxi over to the island and got to see a few of the wild horses of the Outer Banks of NC. The horses were a first for me. A great day and a great experience!
I would like to thank my friend Irene for sharing her journals and teaching methods with me. I love her work and her influence really shows up on this page. You can find her at naturejournaling.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-workbook-drawin.... Take a look!
I had the opportunity to spend a few days with some of my art teacher buddies in July at the beach. We had great fun catching up and spent one of our days at Cape Lookout. We took a water taxi over to the island and got to see a few of the wild horses of the Outer Banks of NC. The horses were a first for me. A great day and a great experience!
I would like to thank my friend Irene for sharing her journals and teaching methods with me. I love her work and her influence really shows up on this page. You can find her at naturejournaling.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-workbook-drawin.... Take a look!
Journal Front Page
Journal Front Page
Originally uploaded by Connie Vickers
Just when you think I have finally given up, I come up with another post. Go figure! I am taking a class with Laure Ferlita on Journaling and really enjoying her ideas, suggestions, demos and instruction. It is always great to be in a class and see familiar names (keeps me in a comfort zone on that level anyway). Inspiration from classmates and an urgency to make something NOW in order to keep up with assignments is just what I needed. Now let's see if I can get on to page two!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
NC Museum of Science
If you can't go to nature, then nature must come to you! OK, so having said that, I'm not nearly as tough as my Nature Group friends whose work I so admire. I took myself to the NC Museum of Science last Saturday and spent the day inside the warm museum looking at the exhibits. This was the first time the butterfly room was open when I was there and it was amazing. The room is filled with different species of butterflies and all the beautiful plants and food sources that they need. I took close up shots of them and then went to grab a bite to eat in the Museum cafe. The cafe has a glass wall that gives you an incredible view of the inside of the butterfly room. I sat for a long time sketching and enjoying the quiet. I didn't get around to finishing my page until today when the snow kept me in. It was a great day!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Backyard
I know that I don't have the cold weather that many of my Sketching in Nature buddies do, but IT IS COLD OUT THERE! So here is a quick sketch of the barn in my earlier photo. I was please with how much I could get down in such a short period of time.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Amarllis
New Year's Day. Time for setting goals, making resolutions, starting fresh. You know the drill. Today I had our traditional New Year's lunch with family. Good food, good company, good time. I have started reading Kathy Johnson's book The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature with a group of very dear online friends. Today was too busy to go outside and sketch - got home after dark - so I will stretch a bit and say this is my first nature drawing of the year.
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