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Blue Girl Meditates

Now that the first half of Make Art That Sells is over (MATS A), I'm back at Lilla Rogers BOOTCAMP. The pace is a little slower with the assignments coming once a month instead of once a week. Even so, I didn't think I was going to be able to complete May's assignment because I've just started a new job and it's full time! So absolutely no time, there. I won't even get into how much gardening I have piled up around me. 

Anyway, enough complaining. The assignment was an Editorial piece for a magazine article about 

"How to Meditate".  

I hear the Editorial market week will be a good one in the MATS B course, come this fall. I can hardly wait. 

For this illustration I used my painting from our Wall Art assignment for the background, recolouring it blue in Photoshop. I also had to crop it down to 8.5 x 11 inches.  I had no idea what to do when I started, but with the pressure on I ended up pleasantly surprised as usual. I like what you can get done when there's no time to think about it. 

I wonder what's in store for June, aside from weeding. 

Lilla Rogers MATS A Week 5 Assignment

 Well, I've come to the end of the first half of Make Art That Sells. And for our final assignment in MATS Part A we designed zipper pouches. This painting is 9.5 x 7 inch ink and acrylic on canvas. I've learned so much in this course and one of the things that surprised me is that I love acrylic painting.  And here I decided to play around with that again. Another thing I discovered is I really like painting loose and fast with not much of a plan. Every time I think I've wrecked it, I throw more colour on and it seems to save itself. With this one, I painted all the elements first before I painted the background. Then I  rolled a layer of yellow over the whole thing and had a mini heart attack. Next I added blues, greens and repainted everything and inked it. I like what happened. I submitted it with seconds to spare. Whew!

  This course was quite intense and most of the time I found it very hard to make the deadlines especially this last week because I had quit my day job and started another. All on the same day! It was crazy. I'm very proud of myself that I managed to submit on time, though. So now with this new job I'm pretty sure I'll have a bit more time to devote to my artwork and the second half of the course which starts in October. I can hardly wait. But in the meantime I'll stay occupied with Lilla's Bootcamp course which is a gentler version of MATS--slower paced with more time to work on assignments. 

 And here's my final mock up of a small zippered bag.