Wisconsin Outsider Art Trip

The NIU Art Museum has what is called Get On The Bus Trips. At the end of June I went along to see some Outsider Art. It is art so I am interested in looking at it. Madison, WI was our home base for several days and we took daytime sojourns into the countryside.

That trip happened some time ago. I am wanting to get back to blogging. I hope I can follow through with Blong Along With Effy beginning April 1st which is tomorrow. To participate we have to sign up then post every day in April. Then we are to comment on other blogger's posts. That sounds like a good spark to get going again!

If you are new to my blog please read some of the old posts to see what I have done in years past. I'm retired now and recovering from an illness. Not COVID it was a Pulmonary Embolism. Glad I survived and am here to blog again.  Tomorrow I am ready to begin this posting journey for April.

I am also taking part in the Art for Earth Package! It contains over 85+ amazing art resources, and I know we all LOVE those!  Get all the details here!

More tomorrow

Sherry Lee Patterson

Projects Making Progress.

It is the first week 2017 and my art projects have continued, but I was not good at sharing them. One goal for this year is to post more often to show projects and some of the things that inspire me or topics I find interesting. In December I  took a bus trip to Chicago Field Museum to see a display of the "Terracotta Warriors". This exhibit will close on January 8th so I feel very fortunate that the NIU Art Museum arranged the bus trip.

Sherry with these two cool warriors from the Archaeological dig in China.  Terracotta Army

Where to begin? One very active area has been participating in Journal Workshops by Jenniebellie Art Journal Workshops  My samples of using text pages from old books in my art.

This one is a mixed media piece: White gesso on the page.Collage tree and "fussy cut" packages from designer paper  Later  image photocopied, trimmed for card front, embellished further by adding more packages with denominational spots to raise them up. To finish  I trimmed up the image, added glittery "washie" tape on the top and left corner, ball point pen for the background  then,tidied up with  more marker on the tree, topped with a shinny gold star  and used for a Christmas card .

 A set of floral images drawn and painted on the gesso pages. Then the face of a Queen of the Universe. 

Long gone or is it gone long!

Well, I am back and over a year. I am wondering where the rest of 2014 went since the last post in September of that year. Sorry not have kept up posting. I will have more of my 2015 continuing mixed media art journey. Physically I am doing well. I can walk longer distances and my legs do not numb up. The pain is gone and so is much of my energy. I have been away but still doing some art projects, I will try to get more Paintspatters Projects up for you to see.

 This was the end of 2014 Journal 52 "Bright and Shiny" Christmas wrappings, snowflakes, swirling currents, and could that be a mittened hand maybe Santa on his last round.
:-)

 I dabbled in making backgrounds like the one on the right, copying and using them for projects. Friends liked some of them so I shared a few.

A matrix to use for some doodling.

The same matrix filled in and it is used in my 2014 Journal 52 inside cover. This journal is still in progress and there are more images to share

This is how my car looked in a snow drift  January 2015.
 Below is where it was parked. It is the one on the right I think. 

That was just some things I documented more of my 2015 year to come. I did take pictures and documented more of my art projects! I will be adding more in weeks to come!!!!