A new little whimsies girl..

Weeks 45 in Life Book class was making a little whimsies girl. 

I liked making this one very much, think they are cute. 

As an art teacher I always try to teach my student to have the right size of the head and the body and now Im drawing whimsies with a big head.. so form now on Im going to allow them to draw a little whimsies too.

First I made a drawing, then I colored it with a Neocolor and finally I did paint over with acryl and used markers and pens and a little glimmer to the spider web. 

Now the Life Book is almost over, one more month to go. 

This year has gone very fast, always waiting for new classes.. 

Life Book 2013 will start on January 1, my birthday... 

Now I have to decide if or not I shall sign in..

22 new teachers and the price is so good....only 60 pound. 

52 weeks of fun and nice friends..

Have a beautiful week all of you and Happy PPF.

♥

Sandra McCall´s interview with me.

INTERVIEW BY SANDRA MCCALL OCT 30.

SIGGA DÍS LIVES AN ARTFUL LIFE IN ICELAND.  SHE IS AN ART INSTRUCTOR WHO TEACHES KIDS- AGES SIX THROUGH SIXTEEN. PHEW- BIG AGE SPREAD THERE. I THINK THAT IT MUST BE A CHALLENGE TO COME UP WITH GAME PLANS THAT WILL KEEP KIDS OF ALL AGES INTERESTED IN ART. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT SIGGA HAS A THRIVING BLOG, AN ETSY SHOP AND IS ON FACEBOOK TOO.

SIGGA SAYS THAT WITH ALL OF HER WORK AND PAINTING, SHE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT TV IS ANYMORE. I ASKED THIS BUSY LADY IF SHE WOULD TAKE TIME OUT TO TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT HERSELF, HER STUDIO AND HER ARTWORK. SHE HAS GRACIOUSLY SUPPLIED SOME PHOTOS AND HAS ANSWERED A FEW LITTLE “INTERVIEW” QUESTIONS FOR US.

SM: WHEN DID YOU FIRST DISCOVER YOUR PASSION FOR ART?

SD: I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DRAWING, PAINTING AND WORKING WITH CLAY.

I LOVED TO GO TO ART CLASS WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL.  SOMETIMES MY ART TEACHER GAVE ME SOME BOOKS TO TAKE HOME TO READ. I WAS SO PROUD WHEN I MET HER A FEW YEARS AGO AND TOLD HER I HAD BECOME AN ART TEACHER TOO.

SM: THAT MEETING WITH YOUR TEACHER MUST HAVE BEEN FUN. WHAT PATH DID YOU TAKE? WHAT IS YOUR CREATIVE SPECIALTY TODAY?

SD: TODAY –  IT’S MIXED MEDIA. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT MM. WHEN YOU WORK WITH MIXED MEDIA, YOU CAN PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND MAKE A PIECE OF ART. YOU CAN PAINT, CUT, STAMP, GLUE, DRAW AND MIX IT ALL TOGETHER. BEFORE I JUST LIKE TO PAINT WITH OIL COLORS AND WATERCOLOR.

SM: I LOVE YOUR FACES. THEY ARE ADORABLE ON THE MUGS TOO. YOU HAVE A STYLE THAT LENDS  ITSELF TO A VARIETY OF MERCHANDISE. HOW WOULD YOUDESCRIBE YOUR STYLE?

SD: I DON’T KNOW. I LOVE TO DRAW GIRLS AND LADIES, BUT THEY ARE LADIES WITH BIG NOSES AND THEIR EYES HERE AND THERE. I THINK I HAVE MADE ABOUT 50 OF THEM AND I LOVE ALL OF THEM.

SM: WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE ART MEDIUMS? AND WHY IS THAT?

SD: NEOCOLOR, ACRYLIC, STAMPS AND PENS. IF I HAVE THESE, I CAN DO A LOT AND OF COURSE WATERCOLOR PAPER 300GR, MY FAVORITE.

SM: DO YOU EXHIBIT YOUR WORK? 

SD: YES I DO. THIS YEAR I HAVE HAD 4 EXHIBITIONS WITH MY LOVELY LADIES THAT ALL WENT AND I’M BOOKED AT 4 PLACES NEXT YEAR.

SM: WHAT IS YOUR BEST TIP FOR ORGANIZING YOUR STUDIO?

SD: I HAVE JUST MOVED TO A NEW ROOM WITH MY STUFF, IN MY OLD ROOM I COULD NOT PAINT ANYMORE. I HAD STUFF ALL OVER THE PLACE. NO I’M GOING TO CLEAN THE MESS AFTER EVERY PAINTING I MAKE. WHEN WORKING IN MM YOU ARE USING ALL KIND OF PAPER AND JUST ALL KIND OF STUFF SO IT IS VERY EASY TO LOSE CONTROL OVER YOUR STUFF. I TRY TO ORGANIZE MY THINGS, LIKE KEEPING ALL OF MY PENS TOGETHER, ALL MY PAINT TOGETHER, ALL MY PAPER AND MAGAZINE AT ONE PLACE AND SO ON. EVEN IF IT LOOKS LIKE A MESS, I ALWAYS KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND EVERYTHING. I WAS WONDERING IF I SHOULD HAVE MY COMPUTER IN THE SAME ROOM AND DID DECIDED TO TAKE IT WITH ME.  I THINK I WAS RIGHT BECAUSE THEN I CAN LISTEN TO CLASS WHILE WORKING.

SM: WHAT’S COMING NEXT FROM YOUR STUDIO?

SD: TODAY I WAS WORKING ON A PAINTING FOR LIFE BOOK. IT WAS FUN. I HAD TO USE FABRIC AND ALL KIND OF THINGS. TOMORROW I’M GOING TO USE MY SEWING MACHINE TO FINISH THAT PAINTING. THAT’S THE ONE LAYING ON MY DESK IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURES.

SM: ANY BLOGS, WEB SITES, LINKS OR CONTACT INFORMATION THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO

LEAVE US WITH?

SD: I HAVE A BLOG AND A FACEBOOK PAGE. THEN I HAVE ETSY SHOP, BUT I HAVE NOT HAD TIME TO WORK ON THAT ONE FOR A LONG TIME BUT WILL SOON.

WWW.SIGGADISART.BLOGSPOT.COM

WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SIGGADISART

HTTP://ETSY.COM/SHOP/SIGGADISART

E-MAIL:  SDIS@SIMNET.IS

Tracy Verdugo was this week teacher in the Life Book

I loved this week lesson in the Life Book. 

Tracy Verdugo was teaching and this time I loved her lesson.

I have admired her paintings for a long time and vanted to learn what kind 

of teknik she is using.

Now I know so I was so excited to try.

I was so happy with my first painting.

First I did start adding some dots here and there. 

Then I played with a wooden stick and my fingers, 

added a little water spray.

Then I did add some more colors and more dots and little of this and that.

And that is the resultat. 

I love studying the colors. Yellow, red and blue are the primary colors, if we mix them together we have a brown color. These are the colors I was using in this one plus the white color and a permanent pen for the writing. 

And when I had made one I had to make another.

Now I was only using red and blue using the same teknik, dots here and there and then the wooden stick and water spray.

Then I added a little more, used my stencil and my fingertips.

It was looking beautiful..

And to finish I was using the white color and my permanent pen. 

Love this pice. 

 The second one reminds me of Christmas, the red and the blue together with the white.

Hope you like my new painting as much as I do :)

Have a beautiful weekend all of you

and

Happy PPF to the rest..

Doodili, doodili, doodili, do...

As you may know then Im in love with doodling, cant stop doodle.

So yesterday night I draw this angel and decorate it all with doodle.

Then I started to color my angel. In the beginning everything went great. But that is not a question, I have to buy my new Sharpies ore other brand. Mine are almost finished. Im going to try to clean them but Im not sure if that is going to work. 

So in stead of my Sharpies I did use Derwent watercolour pens. After coloring I used a wet brush and that is how it endet. I kind of like it but I prefer Sharpies, more colors like you can see in the flowers. The angels face I painted with a Neocolor ll. 

I think I happy with how it turned out, now I have to find me a new thing to draw...

Have a beautiful day all of you.

One more thing.. I was interviewed by Sandra Mccall, feel free to go to her blog if you want to read all about me  :)

My sunday painting..

To day is a sunday and I decided not to go out to day,

 but to stay at home painting and I did.

After having breakfast or more like lunch I did start working on this little pice. 

The sise is 10x15 cm and I had already made the drawing of the girl as I was going to take a part in 29 faces but I had to give up

as I did not have the time to finish painting all the faces I had made.

So now I have a bunch of girls who need to be painted.

You would not believe how many hours I did spend on this one, the whole day.

A small painting is not always easier than a large one.

On her dress I did use a modeling paste, I love the way it becomes and around her head I did use a stencil, I love stencils.

Have a beautiful evening :-)

More doodling...

When I start doodle I cant stop, love to see how the picture changes every time you add a new doodle.

Here I was playing with warm and cold colors.

If you have not tried to doodle you should take Sandy Tygers class. It costs only $ 10 and I think that is enough to get  you started.

Have a beautiful sunday :)

I took a little online class yesterday...

Yesterday I saw that Sandy Tyger was having a online class in doodling and as I love doodling I signed up. The price was fabulous, only $10. 

after watching all her videos from that class and looking at the pictures 

I did start working. 

As I said before I love doodling so I did not stand up until I had 

finished my doodling work.

I wanted to use my Sharpies but found out that they are drying out so I must order some new soon. So I was using just all kind of colors. 

If you have not tried to doodle you should try, It is so relaxing to sit down with your paper and pen and just let it flow..

Have a beautiful day/night all of you..and a happy PPF..

My first Etsy sale...

To day I made my first Etsy sale.

 I sold one of my beautiful sketch books to a lady in England.

It made me so happy and I hope that she is going to like what she get.

I have sold a lot of my books here at home but I have both sketch books and a year books for year 2013 and I have the year book in Icelandic, English and Swedish. So if you need a book, take a look in my Etsy shop, soon Ill get more with different paintings on the front cover. 

Like this one.. come fly away with us, fly away..

Have a beautiful weekend, all of you..

I love all my visitors, 5,884 so far and not a year...

In Mars I wrote about how many visitors I have had from all over the world. I have tried to cats each and every one to add in here but Im sure I have missed some one.

 Sometimes people comment to let me know that I had missed them..

To day I count visitors from about 60 countries... I love it, and I have had 5884 visitor and my blog is not even one year old.. Love it to..

The visitor that made me most happy was the one from India. 

You might not know but Im in love with India. 

Beautiful flower decoration at our hotel

Street photo, anyone want to buy Pop corn??

Beautiful Bangles 

Another beautiful Flower decoration.

My daughter helping my friend with the coconut for the dinner.

Salesman, selling lime and another selling masks.

These are the countries I know I have had visitors from. 

Argentina-Arizona-Australia-Belgium-Brazil-Burma-Canada-Cape Town-China-Colombia-Cyprus-Czech Republic-Denmark-Dubai-Ecuador-Egypt-Finland-France-Georgia-Germany-Greece-Guatemala-Hong Kong-Hungary-India-Indonesia-Island-Island of Bermuda and Vail-Islamabad-Italy-Isreal-Japan-Lativia-Malaysia-Manilla-Mexico-Mosambique-Mumbai-New Zealand-Nigeria-Norway-Pakistan-Philippines-Portugal-Romania-Russia-Serbia-Singapore-Slovenia-South Africa-Spain-Sweden-Switzerland-Taipai-Taiwan-Trinidad and Tobago-Turkey-United Kingdom-Ukraine-United Arab Emirates-United State of America-Venezuela

A new Lovely Lady was born... yesterday..

Now it is over a month since I last painted a Lovely Lady, it was in late August.

I was afraid that I did not have the ability after such a long time but now Im sure it is like when we learn to ride a bicycle, you will newer forget. 

I did have this background laying on my desk and was not sure if I could use him, so different colors but after painting the Lady and adding some flowers I was so happy with my work.. Then I decided to add a bird and I did not think it was enough so I did add another... 

Then I wrote in her hair, that is always the last thing I do. It says..

Come fly away with us, fly away... 

I think they were talking to me as well,, I feel so much that I want to fly away... far away.. I want to fly all the way to India, my favorite country and I want to stay there for a long, long time...

Have a beautiful day/night all of you.

♥♥♥

Mystele my favorite mixed media girl..

In my post last week I did tell you about the Mixed Media Ladies 

that have inspired me the most.

One of them was Mystele.

Mystele is one of Life Book teachers.

Something happend to me in her class. 

I dont know if it was the way she taught or the way she painted, I just got stuckt in making my Lovely Ladies after that class.

My Lovely Lady

Since that class I think I have made about 50 of my Lovely Ladies and also made a lot of things with My Ladies, like book covers, bookmarks, magnets, bags and mugs.

There you can see some of my Ladies half done..

Mystele has a little community called Community thrive.  

It is a nice place for us to sign in and start creating. 

She has classes and she has videos, playtime and art challenge. 

You will get your own page and there is an artist gallery and much more.

This is on of Mystele´s beautiful paintings, I love the way she makes her ladies. 

Have a beautiful weekend all of you and a happy PPF

 ♥ ♥ ♥

Working on my page...

Hello, Im working on my blog, adding some tabs to it.. Ill let you know when Im done..

By the way.. I did paint a little this weekend, a beautiful owl.. dosent she look cute?

I love making owls....

A new one for the Life Book..

Finally, finally.. I had a time to make one painting for the Life Book.

This time the teacher was Tam and this one was different from the others as we used fabric and all kind of buttons and lace..

 It was fun to make.

And I did add some butterflies as I love butterflies..

 I did not have my sewing machine so I did not sew..

I love this Mixed Media, what a fun to make and you can play with what you have at home..

Have a beautiful day, evening, night..

The Mixed Media Artists that have inspired me most....

For little more than one year ago I had not heard about Mixed Media. I loved Kelly Ray Roberts work, bud did not think of it as something called Mixed Media. 
She was my favorite. 

One of Kelly Rae painting

Then one day I was searching the Internet and found a beautiful picture of a painting. The painters name was Joann Loftus. 
I loved the way she made her paintings, cutting, cluing, painting all in the same painting. 

I wanted so much to make paintings like she was doing. 

One of Joann Loftus painting

One day she was talking about Willowing.ning and I went there to take a look and it was like finding a goldmine for me. I signed in to a class called Life Book and took Fabulous Faces and Mandalas classes too. 

There I met Tamara Laporte, she is such a wonderful artist and her class Life Book had a new teacher every other week. It was like heven for me. 

One of Tams painting

In the Life Book classes I meet such a great teachers team, I can´t count them all inn but these are my favorite, so far ..but all are great.

Tam

www.willowing.ning.com

Jane DesRosier

http://thetroddenpath.ning.com/

Juliette Crane

www.juliettecrane.blogspot.com

Jodi Ohl

www.sweetrepeats.blogspot.com

❤  Mystele ❤

http://communitythrive.com/

Tracy Verdugo

www.artoftracyverdugo.blogspot.com

Kylie Fowler

www.blissfulpumpkin.blogspot.com

You can take a look at their blog to see what I meen, I think all of them have workshops and offer a lot of beautiful classes.

There are still more classes to come and new teachers as well.
Through Life Book I have met so many wonderful artist from all over the world and we share all kind of advise and follow each others blogs as well as we comment on each others work as well. We are together in FB groups, we take classes together and we are having so much fun. 

To day I am a member of many workshops and FG groups. I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to get in contact with all these Lovely Ladies that share the interest in Mixed Media with me and have inspired me so much.

Have a beautiful day all of you.

❤ ❤ ❤