Expanding Your Artistic Boundaries Can be Scary

Expanding your artistic boundaries can be scary thing. Stretching yourself and learning new things is a little intimidating when others are watching. It's also more than a little exhilarating!

I recently took a wonderful workshop at the Greenville Museum of Art with Judy Verhoeven, a wonderful local collage artist. I saw the class listed on the museum online calendar and so I looked up her work on her website. I really, really liked what I saw. I signed up for the workshop and went to a Gallery talk she did a couple of weeks before the workshop. At the Gallery Talk I saw her work up close and I fell in love with it! The level of detail is amazing! I hope you get to see some of her pieces up close sometime.

The workshop was fantastic and stressful and fun and relaxing and scary and joyful all the same time! Judy was great! I really learned so much and ended up with a piece I am proud of! I finished it last weekend and now I am itching to start another one and try a more realistic rendering.

My piece is whimsical and fun and personal to me. It's called "Home is Where YOU Are". When I was making the clouds I couldn't resist using the hymnal page! The sky background is an old legal pad page I painted at the workshop and the mountains are from a painted old book page.

 If you look really closely at the window of the door of the middle house, you can see my sweet hubby's head! 

The text in the rolling hillside is intentionally obscure. Your eyes go to the little cottages first and then later your eyes are drawn downward and you discover them.

 

 

OK. Time to stop blogging and go to my studio, cut up some paper and start collaging!