Tag: art supplies

• My Sketchbook, A Silent Movie

  

  pocket edition in the morning light 😊. You can also view this short silent movie on YouTube if you prefer. (That YouTube is just for blog videos or talk shows, and I link them here. My Yoga YouTube is a separate Channel linked on my About page.) 💕 Love, Jade

  03/22/2023 8:24 am

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• Acrylic Paints Recommendations and Reaction to the Fumes

  Summary: I felt the fumes of the open acrylics were a little strong for me and maybe for Peeko too as he’d left the room a lot. I found my eyes feeling puffy. I’ve done well with Liquitex or Windsor and Newton regular style acrylic paints in the past with scent and quality; you can…

  02/16/2023 8:32 pm

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• Another Art Selected!

  February 13, 2023 You might have read last week that my painting, “In Rhythm” was selected to be shown at the Morini Gallery, Juried Art Exhibition for Abstractions at the Mass Arts Center from March through April. I just received another notice today that if any painting by any artist at that show sells and…

  02/13/2023 3:27 pm

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• Artist Painting Early Morning

  

  I have begun a new painting this morning. I will not show you the painting at all (it’s just one session in), but the moment. I got this table easel as a gift from my mom, so portable, only two light pieces. I like to paint seated (standing I get overly energized, and it’s more…

  02/06/2023 10:11 am

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• The Ocean Shore

  

  The Ocean Shore, from my pocket sketch-book, completed Feb. 3, 2023, a scene from memory, inspired by the song, “Servant of Love” by Patty Griffin, a scene that might have not appeared in this particular song but the song had moved me, reminded me of this view from my memory, and inspired me to draw.…

  02/03/2023 7:40 pm

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂…

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• A Leaf Composition

  

  a sketch from imagination, arranging leaves for abstract practice, pocket book December 29, 2022. 💕—Jade

  12/29/2022 7:09 pm

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• Wild Sumac: Look, Don’t Touch, and Definitely Don’t Eat

  

  This is a sketch of the wild sumac growing outside my window. In North America, this plant is poisonous, but in the Middle East you can eat them and may find the berries made into dressing in certain classic dishes. I sketched the sumac quickly as an art lesson I’d found that looking at shapes…

  12/29/2022 7:49 am

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• Singer Amy Lee’s Birthday and a Sketch at the Library

  

  Well, it looks like this blog in recent weeks has been me floating toward you upon a great sea of famous author and singers’ birthdays…I am keeping up. Today, I had looked online after thinking (there is another birthday?)…It is singer Amy Lee from Evanescence’s birthday. Last yr or before, I was so overwhelmed with…

  12/13/2022 5:07 pm

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• My Pick from the List, and My Complaint

  November 31, 2022 I picked from my list: I wanted to paint; it was looking beautiful; I had no concept beforehand, and I saw a look I liked from the start. But then I kept adding and adding and I found a concept at that point, with a tone of a color I’d added but…

  12/01/2022 6:43 am

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• Peeko’s Puffy Kitten Face, A Couple of New Art Supplies

  

  A rainy Sunday evening: my fine art collector and curator,🐱Peeko viewing again my latest drawing I finished yesterday before it is placed inside an art folder for safekeeping. I was careful not to hold it too close to the kitten. He made a little tiny grunt of delight as he looked into one little part…

  11/27/2022 6:30 pm

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• So Relaxing

  

  I completed my latest drawing this evening! “So Relaxing” by Jade Nicole Beals, Nov. 26, 2022, graphite pencils on paper, surreal still life imagined. You may notice different things: a bowl of cereal with a spoon, a checkered scarf or throw blanket, a fluffed bedtime pillow, throw pillow, a small throw rug, a pot of…

  11/27/2022 3:54 pm

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• Session #3 Drawing in Progress, Grateful with Art Supporter :)

  

  with my dad in law, Dave who is a great supporter of my art and bought my painting “Mornings at the Sea” at my first art show!! 🙏💕😊💕With my new drawing In Progress! Session #3📝! I brought it to Thanksgiving in my new drawing book a great thing to do, draw while at a home…

  11/24/2022 6:21 pm

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• I Begin a New Drawing

  

  Thanksgiving update: I just woke from a long morningtime nap, sun on my face, so refreshing; my drawing in progress came to mind. This is what it has been so far 🙂 In progress drawing, first session. (My small paper yesterday came to be a practice paper.) I draw the imagined scene now on 9…

  11/24/2022 10:00 am

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