Gloucester-Dress Code

Does this little lady have exuberance or what? She is my friend from the Dress Code in Gloucester Maine. This is a little second hand store that I sell my clothes in. While I was there the other day, I wanted to shoot some of the clothing in the store and the pattern and color of these three vintage dresses caught my eye. Yes, people still wear this style of clothing and so does my little friend!

Notice pattern and color. I will be showing that alot in my next blogs, for you to take into account and process and work into your art.

BRIDGE-Patterns in Life

As my husband was driving, I was hanging out of the car trying to get shots of this bridge we were going over in New England. He was scared to death that I was going to fall out of the car. As you can see I didn't:) I just love the patterns of this bridge and thought, why don't I share with my artists friends the idea of taking patterns we see in life and incorporating them into our art work. I think patterns done over and over again in a piece pull it together and integrate the work as a whole.

Patterns

I love looking at the patterns that the Lord has created.
Last week, my family went out for an ice cream. What a chance to do some photography withg my new Fuji camera. My Canon Rebel bit the dust and I was able to do a swap. Not sure if it is a very good swap yet, alot of little issues with the Fuji, but I still was able to capture some pictures of the scared to death chicken and the squaking goose. The remarkable patterns and colors in the chicken are inspiring me to do a collage with red black and white and the pattern of the neck and its delicate curve with white and a bit of yellow and grey shadows are leading me to a subtle collage.

After learning about pattern and color just by nature, I can then create decorating in my home, painting or collaging the same way. Learn from what you see outside.

Then, I can work on my clothing style the same way
http://herfineclothing.blogspot.com check it out, my other blog and I get to do with my clothing what I have learned from nature.

GESSO-Black Vs Grey Vs White

You know, if you don't have black gesso at home, don't go out running for it at the store unless you have a coupon from one of the stores. Use your white gesso, paint your surface, let it dry, then paint or sponge over it with black acrylic paint.

I have used grey gesso to make my surface a neutral color more or less before I painted my scene on it. I still like white gesso the best. If I want texture to the gesso, sponge it, or stamp into it with a stamp pad. Run a fork through it, use brillo and rub lightly, use a credit card or gift card (used) and run over the gesso to create a swirl pattern.

I blow dry my gesso slowly and on a medium heat. It really needs to be dry first before painting on it to keep the bumps and texture that you want.

Patterns in Art on My Vacation to Rockport

I noticed as I was taking some shots on my vacation in Rockport, were the repeated patterns I saw in store windows, on the side of buildings or just lobster traps piled on top of one another. Repeating patterns I somehow identify with. The objects carry my eyes from left to right, or right to left. If there is an object that repeats going off to the horizon line, that draws my eye away from the foreground to the background. Repeated patterns in art draw my eye to the movement of the pieces rather than necessarily knowing what the objects are. Then my eyes draw in closer to discuss what the objects are representing. In the window of Blue Lantern, the owner has various little fairies in each windowpane to show the customer the variety of sourvenirs, but my eye caught the colors and the number of these little dolls. There were more in other windows also.

The bright yellow lobsta traps attracted me for the brightness and value of color along with the texture of the metal and rust. Light was filtering through the holes of the traps.

The photo of the red barn is a bit faded please pardon that, but I wanted you to see the small buoeys hanging on the side of the building, repeating their primary colors and stripes.

The sea shell guy has his star fish as the focal point to his store front. I stole his idea and tacked my star fish with ribbon and fancy tacks into a window that I am hanging.

See if you can incorporate take an object, and repeat it in a collage, or painting.

Art Patterns Repeated