Oil Cold Wax & My Sketchbook

I seem to be addicted to Sara Post‘s drawing Zoom workshops. I love her way of teaching and the community of artists in the group. Some familiar and some new. She always does considerable research and provides interesting videos and examples that I find myself going back to many of her resource pages from previous workshops. In each class she opens with a discussion on the video/videos followed by a drawing exercise, usually fast sketches from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.  This 5 minute sketch was my reaction to a poem by Emily Dickinson called  I Dwell in Possibilty   Click to Enlarge

Click to Enlarge Well not quite but could be. This piece has been on my easel for so long that it’s like part of the furniture. I started it when Jerry and Rebecca announced their first digital Juried Exhibition in 2024. Well this piece wasn’t submitted and many attempts were made to finish it. It is part of my ongoing Sea Sand Salt series. Just couldn’t get the sand/salt area to work.  Finally in a frenzy that only I can do, covered it with cold wax, Oms let it sit and actually scraped away 2 years of paint.   I finally got it working and submitted it for the Cold Wax Academy critique. I was

Click  to Enlarge Images  A one page black sketchbook. First layer had oils and cold wax varying shapes. Added layers with neocolor I wax crayons and large graphite stick. Abstracting the context of large areas in nature ex: sky land water with a grain of salt and imagination!

https://caroledanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/VID-20260703-WA0001.mp4What a surprise! Lior, Mor and Amir my grandkids made me a book from my blog posts. What a project, I was dumbfounded, it was so emotional for me. There are images that I had completely forgotten about.  Each page with the year. Even a poem that I wrote!  What a thoughtful gift, something that I will always treasure! THANK YOU!

Click the thumbnails to enlarge Images My new hydroponic installation. Thanks to my granddaughter Lior and her fiance Koby. A vegetable garden just outside my door.  Eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, mangold, basil and celery. Left is about 1 week and R is 4 weeks. Tomatoes have taken over! Can’t wait to harvest, lots of mangold to cut. What to do with them, any suggestions! Click the thumbnails to enlarge Images I am at the end of another zoom course with Sara Post. This course was devoted to finding abstracts in nature, these were more about patterns  in nature.

Just Doesn’t Come I want to write a poemit just doesn’t come outThe coolish feel of the poolThe row of bright lavender plants along the border. The hooded crow that gingerly comes to take a drink.the gratitude that I am even in the waternot to be taken for granted! Click to Enlarge I feel that nothing much is “coming” these days. Like I am working on empty! Doing some warm-ups, looking at starts. Not really knowing where to go from here to there.  I know, past few months have been crazy…. my sciatica not really gone, 2 steps forward, one step back. Hoping that going to the pool will help in that direction.  My