EraserQueen Studios

Hi everyone! There was no Journal Prompt this week because I was at an Art Retreat! ArtTrader.com, ATCsFoAll.com and IllustratedATCs.com held an art retreat in Rochester NY and it was a blas, we hd two days of workshops, and I taught two of them! Color and Water: Watercolor technique and color theory, and Altered Women: A Collage Project.

I also got ASICK while I was there, and while totally worth it, I need to take some sudafed and be vertical for a while! I'll be back twice as strong next week with some new prompts! :D

Hi Folks!

I have a free mini zine for you to download and print out!

Hover your cursor here, right click and select "save as"

You can learn how to fold it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI-tCRZaItw

Also in the same vid, I've shown how I decorated my journal for the Color Journal project!





Okay on to Week #2's journaling prompt!


These colors may seem weird and reminiscent of time spent at Burger King in the 80s, but they actually make for a really nice scheme! Brown is a neutral and neutrals can go with just about anything; but I would choose a warm brown (something with more yellow or red in it) to set off the warm tones in the orange. Orange is a great color - a tempered balance between passionate red and the cheerful yellow. I decided to accent my orange/brown scheme with a little purple (can't seem to let go of purple!) and it looks good!

Feel free to play with accent colors in your Brown/Orange scheme. An accent color is just that - a simple hint of another color just to spice things up a bit - not meant to overwhelm the dominant scheme.




For those of you who work in collage and mixed media, here is a free pattern for you to play with! (You can use it for work traded or sold but you cannot sell or distribute the file on it own unaltered, thanks!)

What do you guys do about responding to blog comments? I like to have "conversations" with people but it seems hard on a blog! I have no idea if people will realize I've responded to them - is there some special way you guys deal with this? Or do I just pray that one day the response will be read by its intended recipient? LOL

I am going to start posting Weekly Color Journaling Prompts on my blog; I welcome my Color Exploration Workshop students and anyone else to participate!

Feel free to leave a comment with a link to your work, and I have started a Flickr Group as well: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1402554@N25/



Week #1: The Color Purple

The color purple is great for journaling because it is a color of power (historically it is a color worn by royalty), of conflict (it is a combination of red - an aggressive color, and blue - a soothing color) and of Balance (as again, it is a combination of strong energy -red and soothing wisdom - blue).

For this week I want you to experiment with purple and think about what it means to you as an artist - how do you use purple now? How do you want to use it in the future?

Look at various shades of purple (below are just a few examples) and pick two or three you like.

Combine these shades with some warm colors, like orange, yellow and red.









Now ask yourself: What do these colors make you think of? A massive planet or nebula? a Desert Princess at sunset? Ripe Fruit on a vine? A dress your Grandmother wore? Try to incorporate these colors and feelings into an artwork. I did so here with my Desert Princess:



I have been listening to a lot of "summery" sounding music which I think has inspired this desert/purple feel. A few favorites going around on my iPod have been:

• Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
• Stars and Boulevards- Augustana
• America - A Horse With No Name
• Scar tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Desert rose - Sting

Is there any music that you've been listening to that make you think of Purple? Try incorporating the lyrics into your art!

We have a winner!

http://dutchie-in-canada.blogspot.com/

Congratulations! :D

Thank you SO much to everyone! I'll be having more art giveaways in the future, so stay tuned!