Karudden's Blog

I drew the first one left (non-dominant) handed and the rest with right hand. 🙂

Inspired by Purity Ring animated video

Wow. I haven’t done paper mache in decades. It really is rewarding to put goopy pieces of torn paper onto a balloon and then have it harden and dry to make a form. These are going to be masks of some kind. It’s a group project, so it’s being done in sessions. We already gave them a coat of white paint/gesso, and I’m excited to see where they go next. I definitely am expecting to do this again.

These were some objects on the table in front of me and I sketched them with a pen. The next day I added some color and later decided to add some more rainbow dot action. Then the linework was lost so I went over it with a felt pen. It’s weird, it doesn’t make sense, but it was enjoyable to do, as most art experiments are.

A coffee stain that reminded me, like a cloud sometimes does, of an imaginary animal. A magical moose or yak, or perhaps a strange camel with horns.

This group of imaginary women’s faces was on the back of the flower vase sketch (last image), which I also decided to color in with paint. The date on it was from ten years ago. I remembered to take a ‘before’ pic of the women, but not the flowers! The crayon drawing on the book pages was an art therapy exercise (from this week) about moving from chaos to order, or rather, to Peace within, or from what’s blocking you from growing and expanding, into the freedom to be yourself. Drawing with crayons was comforting, and I enjoyed the textural feeling of them gliding across the smooth surface of the book pages. Keep creating!

Here are a couple recent sketch drawings and two old paintings 🙂

From an online workshop from Sketchbook Revival: “Abstract Rainbows”

Meditative Watercolor loose landscapes and ink pen outlining abstract shapes (Sketchbook Revival)

In-Progress acrylic experiments for practice and relaxation