Thanks Jerney for teaching us to trust quicker, more instinctive ways of creating art. This class includes playful ways that grow right out of multi-media markings and painting. The class is great and helps me stay creative.

I’m moving along in the Art Quickies class and getting close to the end. This class has been nothing but a series of sparks—each exercise triggering my creative intuition in a new way.

Below is the Quick start: is a 4x4.5 inches.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 1 - student project

Patchwork portrait 4x4 inch. Used watercolor, acrylic, ink, gel pen and dried clover flower.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 2 - student project

Word play: above are the baseline sketches which have interesting faces. Then I added a second layer. Again I see so many figures. So much fun. I used oil patels, ink and acrylic.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 3 - student project

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 4 - student project

Masking tape abstract. I really enjoyed this one. Did both before bed and I was pleasant surprised the next morning. Acrylics,Warm and Cool dreamers. 6X4.5 inch mixed media paper.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 5 - student project

Bad drawing: Started as loose scribbles. It was hard not to feel like a child drawing...l was laughing from pure joy...

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 6 - student project

Paint without a brush. So happy to experience what simple twigs, grass and paint can accomplish.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 7 - student project

Loose lines with twig art. Cockatiel napping on the mantel. I got carried away with the crest... Oh well.. I enjoyed it.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 8 - student project

Collage mark making. I added markings and color harmony learned from other courses. Very intriguing to see what was going to appear... I was pleasantly surprised.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 9 - student project

Stack & stick collage. I love this one; it is for the viwer interpretation.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 10 - student project

Below are 'Just play': mixed‑media exercise on a watercolor background, crayon, watercolor pencil and ink. Very rewarding...

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 11 - student project

The grungy ink‑staining on gesso: (The lady and the bee & Scaecrow). I used gray graphite and watercolor pencil. Both were small, intuitive explorations, each one letting the imagery emerge on its own. I am getting more confident with black ink.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 12 - student project

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 13 - student project

Transparent brougth the Chick on the dark and the Geisha (using an Eviston's class gestures drawing as a collage).

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 14 - student project

Soft pastels brought memories of my mother and used negative painting.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 15 - student project

Being messy turned into a little Mother Nature.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 16 - student project

Pattern Play was surprisingly rewarding, I was in a trance.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 17 - student project

Marks & Layers became intuitive acrylics: Brought an abstract burst of a horse (After Winning the Night Race) and another with joyful colors.

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 18 - student project

Art Quickies: Almost There - image 19 - student project

Almost there... Yaayyy

Naidu Maldonato

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