Month: August 2018

These are some things that have been inspiring me lately:

This picture I took.

This amazing animated short film I saw.

This wordless graphic novel.

I was inspired watching the amazing multimedia illustration work of Bill Sienkiewicz yesterday so I wanted to try some. This has lots of layers of ink, dye, and gouache between gloss medium and I even tried some bleach (to very little effect). But here’s to experimentation and pushing a painting till it’s “injured” as Bill was talking about in his video.

I made this as part of a mixed-media demo in my Painting class.
Acrylic paint, wax, ink, rice paper, sharpie, gel pen, charcoal, gel medium, collage, and colored pencil.

This is a 30 minute Impressionism demo I made in my painting class last week.

Every year I have the opportunity to go to The Chicago Art Institute  with my Art Club students. It is always amazing and inspiring. This year, instead of taking a lot of pictures of entire paintings, I focused on details.

If rural landscapes is your thang, you will be blown away by the wonderful selection at the Brown County Art Gallery in Nashville, Indiana. Somehow I’d never been before today and I would highly recommend it. They also had a really well curated show of Indiana printmakers on display.

I had wanted to paint something small every week of my summer break…but of course I failed miserably. Oh well, here is a nice gouache I did on top of a quick ink sketch.

I like to draw in church:)

If you don’t have time for anything else…sketch!