Closing The Blog

I have had to make a decision.... can't carry on with 2 blogs... was really getting mixed up with work from my workshop... wde entries... etc etc... so I have decided to continue the new blog that was called  My 120 paintings A Journey to My Journey.   Hope my loyal  followers will join me  there.

Thanks for all your support.

Commitment

As you know I visit and take part in the forums on  Wetcanvas.  I love the weekend drawing events-- and the many new webinars  on the wetcanvas live.  The most recent one given by Larry Sailer.   His last session was about the importance of 120 paintings....
Small daily or semi-daily paintings
Mine will include

• small oils
• small crayon sketches
• digital sketches
• drawings 

So with this in mind.... I started a new BLOG to record my progress.

My larger works that I do in my  art sadna [workshop] will  be posted here!!!

Portrait of Woman in a Shawl

Oil on canvas 50cmx50cm based on reference in the Wetcanvas reference library by Li aka lisilk

Thanks Li for the great reference... hope I did it justice!!!!

Wetcanvas Weekend Events for January

Here are my entries for the weekend events for January at WetCanvas.
Starting from the beginning of the month.
Maureen aka Charliesmum hosted the event on January 7th  
First did a quick 30 minute sketch of a few of the tourists in my brown paper sketch pad A4 using Derwent sketch pencils.

The second is a image manipulation of one of the sheep image experimanting with textures and blending modes,,,,the texture used comes from a great collection of free textures by Jerry Jones aka skeletalmess. I used old canvas 5

First Critique since Art School Days

I am really enjoying my new art workshop under the direction of Heleni Shamai.  Tomorrow will be a really big day .... a group critique.. Each of us are bringing 4 works to take part...Haven't had a critique since my art school days at RISD .. Haven't chosen exactly what to bring... I just started this workshop mid-October and mainly have been working on sketches and oil on paper..... I will probably bring the first of my oil on panel portraits plus some oil on paper sketches.....

1 Pencil and oil on construction paper
Original photo of flower vender from Romania

2.Portrait of an Old Woman
Image from wetcanvas image library

3.  Two oil portraits of young Turkish Girl   there is a third planned
Image from free lesson from Art Academy

The first one more or least realistically... with many rubbings out and building on...the scrubbing was left and gave a textured effect to the painting . Sorry for bad photo seems like a glare on right hand side....

The second variation of the same theme using blocked plain areas in a graphic rendition. This is a WIP and don't know if it will be included in the critique.

There will be a third in the series.....

WDE Events December

End of 2010 and the beginning of 2011!!! This month I took part in all five events!!!! I really feel that taking part and committing to doing is important.  Some come out OK and some not so well... but I feel more enriched in the process and it's one of the things that I hope to continue in the coming year!!!

  IMPORTANCE that is my word for the coming year... and ART and my process are at the top of my list.
I want to thank all that with their commenting have really encouraged me. Although the platform for these events is not for critiques, I have my art workshop for that, I really appreciate the encouraging feedback.
So here are my December entries starting from last to first.
All images are on my flickr click to enlarge

December 31 hosted by  Jean aka just chaos
You can view mywork: on this  thread
 Done in my brown paper sketch pad .... pencil + crayon

December 24 hosted by Micheal aka  mbecket
My thread on wetcanvas
Brown paper  pencil and crayon 

December 17 Hosted by Alain aka AlainJMy thread on wetcanvas
Brown paper  pencil

 

Same sketch with photoshop tweaking..

December 10 Hosted by Dewi
My thread on wetcanvas
Done on brown paper with  charcoal pencil

December 3rd Hosted by Beth aka  signchick
My thread on wetcanvas

 Little cowboy done on brownish construction paper

Baby done with pencil on  brown paper

WDE Events November

I have been pretty lazy in updating my blog.... I usually take part in the weekend drawing events on Wetcanvas.... posting some my entries for November.

Weekend of November 5 Hosted by Lin aka oldrockchick
Brown Paper sketch book A4 21x29.5 drawing pen +white crayon
Little sketches of all the references

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Weekend of November 19 Hosted by Kat aka scattykat

Brown Paper sketch book A4 21x29.5 pencil and pastel pencils

Sketches are 10x15  Fiddler done on full page..

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Weekend of November26 Hosted by Catherine aka catherine1

Just a few gesture sketches from the references... A4 21x29.5 brown paper sketch pad

HB Derwent pencil

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Noam-watching the sunset

Noam-watching the sunset
Originally uploaded by Edanim

In my new art workshop I prepared several portrait sketches on various paper formats for further work in oils and color.... Heleni told me this stands on its own and not to add any paint.... the sketches were done without putting in any background elements.

Based on a photo taken by my daughter or son-in-law a few years ago at the outside Rubinstein piano in the Amminadav forest.

I have posted in my photostream some images I took several years ago of the Rubinstein memorial piano in the forest in my Jerusalem set. Included the reference image I used for my sketch.

Life Class ---- A first after a LONG time

This past Tuesday I was invited by my former art instructor, Dov, to join his evening class because  he had book a model for a life class.  I haven't done sketching from a live model since I left art school ..about a million years ago, so that although I knew I would be very tired with my art workshop in the morning and my Petanque game in the late afternoon I felt I couldn't miss this opportunity.

The model was due to arrive at 7:00PM so we first did some warm ups taking turns being the sitter,

 

Here are the results. All done on newsprint 50x70 cm using brown charcoal stick.

I was quite pleased with the results after such a long time.... I didn't do any measurements during the sketching  time ... concentrated more on catching the pose and filling the page so now looking I find some lack of proportions... rather smallish heads and larger bodies.....My favorite is the last one although I had a problem with the fore handed arm... either she moved or I moved my eye view.... probably the later.  Really had a good time and hope they have another session soon.

Getting Creative-Breaking Out of the Box

Yesterday was a really active day... so much going on.  Art workshop in the morning, Petanque in the afternoon, and a life class in the evening.....A lot has been written on how to develop more  creativity and to try to get out of the BOX... well this morning in my art workshop we did just that.... First instead of setting ourselves up in our usual spots, funny how everyone has them, we positioned ourselves in a huge circle around the walls of the auditorium. Heleni then described what we were to do.... first we all brought drawing stuff... charcoals/pencils boards/paper etc....
The exercise was in 4 stages. Each stage we were told what to draw... in  5 MINUTES 
Phase 1  man  woman  man+woman 
Phase 2 bird    ball        bird+ball
Phase 3 chair  flame     chair+flame
Phase 4 man+chair+bird
All drawn from absolutely no references, from our heads. .One other instruction was to get the work to a finished stage.   You can well  imagine the groans.... I worked first on 100x70 cm cutting board with a charcoal stick and then on newsprint paper!. After each phase we turned our easels around and Heleni gave a quick critique of our works,  Some were pretty amazing. Even those that had non drawing skills came through with flying colors.... because mainly it was a question of "concept" more than of the actual subject,
I not going to post all the images..... the first phase was was pretty good....then man less than the other two...

 Second phase was a flop for me... and for most the ball the biggest challenge for most and only a very few got out of the box for this,,,

Phase 3 Only my chair went well, flame  was really nothing special as was chair+flame.... flame was another problem for most.

Phase 5  worked out fairly well...

 
Bottom line: It was a very productive and tiring art session but really worth the efforts Kudos to Heleni!!!!
Next creative class in a month will be with COLOR

Getting Back to Photoshop

Since I have been putting most of my creative juices into traditional methods,painting and sketching, my photoshop skills have really gone down..... hard to imagine after doing 2 books by Katrin Eismann with an online study-group, but there it is... what you don't do you seem to forget.
Please notice on the right side of the blog a little button to a free e-course fro elements and higher photoshop programs.  I am doing round 2 but you can pre-register for round 3 which will start December 6th. This has been a great boost for me and I am really enjoying getting back to some digital work.  I hope some of this will be integrated in my traditional work.... Not going to post images but here is a link to some of the stuff  skinny-mini  Not much there but have dig into my photo library for stuff to work with. Did use a traditional sketch in the manipulation process....just to see what happens.... love to work with textures and have always been a bit afraid of added text.

Oil Sketches on Paper and Paperboard

Art workshop Tuesdays Nov 2   Nov 9

In my art workshop I continued to do sketches on paper but this time to be painted in oil.  I was a little apprehensive about this process.  Up till now I really wasn't happy about the painting part. I couldn't seem to get a hold on color and making them work.  Heleni, my instructor, suggested I work with a two color palette. I used yellow ochre and ultramarine blue and white. In a few I added the use of white and black crayon. Seems I fall back on the drawing part.  Hope soon to drawing with my paint brush.

 

Ranch Girl

Hooray

 

 Little Ballet Dancer

Flower Vender

 

Seated Nude

Getting Back to the Basics

I have started a new art workshop. Getting back to the basics with some sketching on brown paper. Next step oil on paper. Size 50x70cm. Sketching was done without any background elements. Feeding  the ducks from image on reference library on wetcanvas,com.
Feeding the ducks by Ruth aka madum on wetcanvas
Off to the Woods photo of my grandson by Shabtai Itzhak Edan
Flower Vender   my original photo from trip to Romania.




Feeding the Ducks
Originally uploaded by Edanim

 Off to the Woods

Flower Vender

Black Eyed Susans

susans_WEB
Originally uploaded by Edanim

Another hour crayon and colored pencil sketch for weekend drawing event October 1 2010 at wetcanvas.com Used a bit of turpentine for blending and a painterly look...canson sketch pad 90grm 21x26

Angel

angel_WEB
Originally uploaded by Edanim

Finally back to the weekend drawing events... fast half hour sketch on canson 90 grm sketch pad....HB pencil

Poppies for Naomi

My daughter Naomi renovated her kitchen and wanted a BIG painting of poppies for the dining area. Triptych of 3 canvases... 40x70 60x70 40x70

From carol - mywork

Thinking of maybe re-working middle painting... putting a little more details in the background....

Getting Back to Creative Mode

Since this my trip to US later part of march and probably before that...:( I haven't been in any creative mode.... and the little I did do haven't posted...:( ... As usual I woke up VERY early and saw that the WDE images were already posted for this weekend,,,, 7th of May... did a quick digital sketch..... using my wacum tablet and digital pencil and digital crayon.... about an hour... loved the flow of the hills in the reference image.

Chu Chu

Chu Chu
Originally uploaded by Edanim


Washington Woods
Originally uploaded by Edanim

Some quick crayon sketch in my A5 sketch book for WDE at Wet Canvas. Haven't used these neocolor II crayons for some time.... have to relearn how to use them. They seem to go well in this little sketch pad... wonder what will happen if I put water on them....????