Willowing Arts: A Year of Light (October)

October's lessons from Willowing Arts: A Year of Light.

Even what looks like the simplest of least important lesson usually teaches me some little trick or technique.

This one came together so quickly and nicely that it
inspired me to do it again as a self portrait in oils.

Like I said above, sometimes the silliest looking products had a lesson.
Such as??
Showing a little white above the iris in the eyes
shows a surprised and/or excited expression.

This little booklet magically came together with the just right folds.
Like a quilter loves the opportunity to use up little scraps of fabric,
mixed media artists love getting to use little paper pieces.

I can't honestly say I learned anything with this one.
It was just kind of nice to do a simple little storybook picture.

I went completely rogue on this one.
The teacher's girl was willowy, serious, elegant. and in a somber spiritual yoga pose.
I did, however, use her technique with the salt on wet paint, splatters, and dots.

This lesson was about using masking fluid to leave spaces white
and using salt to make watercolor blotchy.

Believe it or not, this was probably the most difficult for me.  Not that it's technically hard, it looks like a child's.  The hard part for me was that I was to "relax" "let the colors speak to me" "let no thoughts flow through my hands" "let the brush lead" "allow shapes to appear" 
Yeah...
I'm more of a girl who has a plan.
So... yikes...