Warm & Cool Color lesson at UMAR Arts Center

Visual Journal page on Warm & Cool Colors

I recently had the privilege of working with a group of artists from the UMAR Arts Center. Check out the center at -  www.noda.org/art/item/umar-arts-center.

I have been teaching the artists about Visual Journaling and each of them is now keeping their own journal. I am also planning a series of lessons to teach them more about color and color theory as it relates to painting. They are doing the lessons in their journals in order to keep them for future reference.

This lessons was on Warm & Cool Colors. They first created one page with a warm background and one page with a cool background by mixing different colors of acrylic paint. They each drew, painted, and cut out original images to glue on top of the backgrounds when they were dry. Some examples of what they drew were, trees, flowers, and light houses. Here are several examples:

Adding the warm background colors

Gluing on the drawn & painted images

Images glued onto a cool background

Second in the ArtPop Billboard Series

On your way to the airport be sure to look up and see the new location for the billboard featuring my Desert Mountain painting. Exit off of 85 onto Billy Graham Parkway and look up on the right. Or just glance out of the plane on your way back into town!

For more information on the ArtPop Billboard contest, check out my previous blog post.

Exciting News for 2014!

Leigh B. Williams’ Artwork Accents Charlotte’s Skyline

Selected in a juried competition sponsored by the Charlotte Arts and Science Council in partnership with Adams Outdoor Advertising, Leigh B. Williams’ painting, Desert Mountains, was on display in uptown Charlotte from January 1st - March 31st. Stay tuned for future updates and new locations.

One of 15 Artists chosen by the jurors for the inaugural Charlotte “ArtPop” program, Leigh’s painting was prominently displayed on a billboard just off I-77 with the Panther’s Bank of America stadium and the new modernistic Duke Energy tower serving as a backdrop (initial location 822 W. Morehead Street at Cedar Street – see website link below for updated locations).   ArtPop is a growing national program that allows local artists to display their artwork and the public to connect with it as Public Outdoor Art.  Charlotte is the 8^th city to embrace this growing movement started by Wendy Hickey, a national sales representative for Adams. This project is schedule to run throughout 2014 with artwork moving periodically to new locations.   For more information on this innovative and engaging concept & current billboard locations, please visit the Charlotte Arts & Science website at www.artsandscience.org under programs and services. 

Visit Leigh’s website www.LBWilliamsArt.com to see more of both her abstract and representational paintings.

Visual Journaling Workshop at Stonebridge

Last month I had the opportunity to introduce an awesome group of ladies to Visual Journaling. Here are some photos from the fun workshop held for the women of Vine Life at Stonebridge Church Community.
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Mini Visual Journaling Workshop

I had a wonderful time teaching a Mini Visual Journaling Workshop at the Stonebridge Woman's Retreat held at the Ridgecrest Conference Center on March 16th. The women did an awesome job and we all had a lot of fun. Here are a few photos of the day.

Website Updated

Excited to have my website brought up to date. Lots of new photos of artwork! New canvas paintings and ten new alcohol inks. 

Here is one of my brighter alcohol inks below:

Be sure and take a look at my website:  www.lbwilliamsart.com

Journaling Workshop - Entry 3

The workshop was such a fun day with exciting interactions,

 both among artists with each other and with their art supplies! 

Here are some more photos showing the artists at work:

Below are more sample pages done by students

attending the workshop. These works in progress

are great examples of creativity at work.

Above is a colorful page created with acrylic paint and
heavy brush strokes.

When watercolor is added to bubble wrap and then printed,
it adds a very interesting background texture.
The addition of pretty postage stamps and painted
boarders creates more interest.

The page above is a great example of two different
transfer techniques - Photo transfer & Tape transfer.
It is dramatic left black and white, but would also
accept colors quite nicely.

A light watercolor wash was put down as an inviting
background and then layer with both collage,
transfer techniques and text.