Recent Art Work

"LILLY PADS"

5" x 9"

Watercolor

"A WABBIT"

Watercolor

6" x 6"

"TYKE'S BIKE"

4" X 4"

Acrylic on Canvas

"MAGNOLIA"

A not so recent watercolor

15" x 22"
Watercolor on

Gessoed watercolor Paper

"SIMPLY SUNFLOWER"

A recent watercolor

Watercolor and Coffee

on watercolor paper

5" x 5"

"WIPE OUT"

Watercolor

Glazes of watercolor

Designs lifted out of the glazes, pen and ink added.

in the Zentangle style.

4" x 4"

Come back soon to see what's new or old!

"BARNACLE BILLY"

"BARNACLE BILLY"

Zen-T Turtle

5" x 10"

Pen and Ink Drawing

The designs on this turtle's shell reminded

me of barnacles and shells attached.

A fun doodle while watching TV.

See the paintings from my

Acrylic Class at the Upstairs Gallery in Arlington, Texas

below in the next post.

Come back soon!

All Day Acrylic Class, February 27, 2010

FRIDAY ALL DAY ACRYLIC CLASS

The Upstairs Gallery

Arlington, Texas

February, 27, 2010

The pictures following were all done in the class.

Ellie

Claire

Cathy

Janet

Joan

Sandra

Marilyn

Sally

Patty

Ferda

Even though we work from the same image, each

member of the class paints in their own unique way,

using their own color combinations and styles.

We had a great day painting.

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Come back soon to see what is on the drawing board or easel!!!

"SPIKE"

"SPIKE"

5" X 10"

Pen and Ink Drawing

Zentangle

by

Margie Whittington

Here is my newest Zen-T Doodle.  A Horned Toad named  "SPIKE"

He is a bit ugly but has a lot of good "points"!

Check back soon to see another Zen-T Creature.

Scroll down to see lizards and frogs....

"LEAPIN LIZARD"

"LEAPIN  LIZARD"

5" X 10"

Pen and Ink Drawing

Zentangle

"OLYMPIC JUMPERS"

5" X 10"

Pen and Ink Drawing

Zentangle

These are drawings with lots of designs called "Zentangles".

Soon to join the lizard and frogs will be a

horn toad.

Hope you enjoy these.  I am enjoying doodling them.

Quail Season? Correction, Chukar Partridge!

The Chukar Quail visited again on Wed, the 24th.  We googled

Quails and found pictures of the Chukar Quail.  So we know what kind

of bird but don't know where he came from.  He may be living in the

piles of trees limbs at the curb due to the snow storm a

few weeks ago. 

"QUAIL VISIT"

An unusual looking bird, not the

normal ones that hang around our yard, was

looking for his breakfast in our front yard today.

It is very cold here in Ft. Worth, Texas on this

23rd day of February. There were snow flurries as

he pecked around on the ground.

A red beak, red around the eyes and red

legs and feet with stripes on the side made

him very interesting looking.  My friend said it was a Quail.

I would not have know.  I was just curious

why and where he came from.  Maybe

he'll come back tomorrow.  I'll keep a look out.

There may be a bird painting in the near future.

Crazy Quilts & Zentangles

 "CRAZY QUILTS & ZENTANGLES"

Crazy Quilts and Zentangles are a lot alike.

I have done quilting and I especially like "Crazy Quilts"

because of the different patterns and colors ot the

material used.  Also I use ribbon embroidery in some of the

spaces and tie it all together with embroidery stitches.

"Zentangle" drawings are much the same in that you draw

patterns and designs in the spaces.  I have enjoyed this new (to me) but

old art form.  The round "mandala" designs are another type of

design with pattern in a circular form.  A friend pointed out

 to me that she doodles in her sketch book with the

"Mandalas"  form of doodling.

Eventually I need to get back to painting but am

enjoying this diversion of  doodling and drawing

"ZENTANGLES"

Below is a Crazy Quilt that I stitched several years ago.

Below that is a Zentangle I drew while watching the

Olympics on TV.  I was

"multi-tasking"

Crazy Quilt Box Lid

with Ribbon Embroidery and Embroidery Stitches

Zentangle Ink Drawing

 in a 9 square motif.

Both art forms deal with pattern and design.

"LOTSAFUN"

Here are links to more interesting Zentangle sites

http://www.zentangle.com/

http://blog.suzannemcneill.com/

Kimono Art Revisited

"KIMONO ART REVISITED"

Patty, a student in one of my watercolor classes was

inspired to paint more Kimonos. Not only did she paint

 a beautiful one, she did a "Zentangle" drawing of a

Kimono.  Also a pretty heart zentangle.

Here they are.  Thanks Patty for letting me

share these on my post.

A LITTLE BIT ABSTRACT

DOUG WALTON WORKSHOP

The Upstairs Gallery

Arlington, Texas

Recently I attended a workshop at the Upstairs Gallery in Arlington, Texas

where I teach watercolor classes.  I was a student once again under

a master painter and teacher, Doug Walton.

Douglas M.Walton is an art professor at Louisiana University. He takes

groups of artists to paint  and draw in Bali and San Migel de Alente.

He is an accomplished painter and teacher in several mediums.

His currant artistic endeavor includes fused glass.  He designs

beautiful necklaces, bracelets, rings and ear rings in exquisite colors of glass. 

His workshop at theUpstairs Gallery was very creative.

We painted abstract underpaintings on saturated full sheets

of watercolor paper with acrylic paint.

After the paper dried we chose a subject and started

developing the background and bringing the subject out with details.

It was great fun to be a memeber of the class.  The change gave me

room to grow and freedom to express myself creatively. 

Below are two of the paintings I finished in the class. They are not painted

in my normal style of painting. Let me know what you think.

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"FROM THE SEA"

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

22" x 30"

"CAROUSEL PONY"

Acrylilc on Watercolor Paper

22" x 30"

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http://www.upstairsartgallery.com/

http://www.thegoodartco.com/

ZENTANGLE

"GIRL IN KIMONO"

4" x 4"
Zentangle on Paper

(Ink Doodle)

by

Margie Whittington

"ZENTANGLE"

A form of drawing and doodling.

An artist friend, Suzanne Mc'Neill, introduced

me to this creative artform.  She has published a 

book entitled, ZENTANGLE Basics.

Design Originals

http://www.d-originals.com/

Hope you have fun ZRNTANGLEing!!!!! 

Going to Washington

MARIE-JO GOES TO WASHINGTON

This post and the two following posts are pictures from
our Wednesday Afternoon Watercolor Class at
the Upstairs Gallery in Arlington, Texas.


Marie-Jo is a member of our Wednesday afternoon
watercolor class. She along with Corinne and
Claudine were our "French Connection".
All three are from France and have been
attending class at the Upstairs Gallery for
quite some time. They entertain us with their
comments and constant conversation in their
native language French. We have no idea
what they are saying but we know
it is all good (we hope).  Corinne moved a couple of
years ago to South (or maybe North) Carolina. We still hear from her
through emails and via Claudine. Now Marie-Jo is moving to
Washington DC for a year and then back to France.

We are going to miss  you, Marie-Jo!!!!!

Claudine documented Marie-Jo's last watercolor class at
The Upstairs Gallery in Arlington, Texas.
We had a fun day painting a Japanese lady standing on
a bridge. Then we made torn paper "Kimono" cards at the
end of class.

Marie-Jo painting

Marie-Jo, Margie, Claudine

Marie-Jo and Charlie

Marie-Jo and Margie

Marie-Jo and Class

Claudine's painting of Japanese Lady

Claudine's "Kimono" Card

torn paper collage with embellishment and splatters

Martha Sue, one of the three owners of the Upstairs Gallery

Watercolor Instructor, Margie

Crowned with brushes!!!

Best Wishes to Marie-Jo as she goes to Washington!
love from the Afternoon Watercolor class

Christmas 2009

I painted my grandchildren's names in watercolor as

one of their gifts for Christmas.

Here are the results....

"ANDREW"

Andrew is interested in archeology and

really likes to journal. His favorite movie is Indiana Jones.

"CHRISTOPHER"

Christopher likes sports and the outdoors.

I enjoyed painting this frog and I think he

liked it.

"ELLA"

Ella likes anything pink, princesses and

Tinkerbell.

"JACK"

Jack was a monkey at

Halloween.  I should have

painted Thomas the Train.

That will be for next year.

"LUKE"

Luke loves to do whatever the big

kids are doing.  His mother calls him

her little monkey. So Luke got a monkey too.

It was fun painting the grands names.  Next year they will all

have a whole new set of interests so maybe I'll do this again.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!!!!!!

Collage Abstracts

COLLAGE ABSTRACTS

A SERIES OF CARDS MADE FROM

TORN PAPER AND MISC. OBJECTS

I made these fun little abstract collages into

greeting cards.  They are color copies of CBC abstract paintings,

torn and glued to paper and an embelishment added,

example, stars and leaves.

Come back soon to see what the next art project is.

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