New Year, New Class, New Blog

After being out of school for almost 18 years, I have decided to go back to school to pursue an Art Degree! I am currently enrolled in Art Practices I at CNM, and this is a secondary blog that I will be using to post my class work. My previous blog, www.enchanted-art.blogspot.com has been sadly under used for the past couple of years due to life drama, but I am also hoping to be making updates to that blog as well. It feels good to make art a more important focus on my life now, and I am enjoying the learning process in a classroom setting again. So far, we are focusing on mixing colors. Making a 12 step color wheel using acrylic paints, and then another 12 tints, 12 shades, and 12 with the complimentary of each of the original 12 colors. What has struck me so far, is the difference between mixing paints and mixing dyes for fabric dyeing (which I have done A LOT of over the past several years). When mixing dyes, I use a measured formula for each color--cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, etc. For mixing paints, it is more like adding a dab of this, and a drop of that.....Taking a little more time to get just the right mixture of the color to match the Master Color Wheel. But a great learning exercise. I will post pics soon of my progress thus far, but wanted to get the ball rolling with the blog today.