Jennifer Winship Mark: 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

What's the big Eye-dea?

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

I have been working on images for our website lately and it seems

I am going off on some crazy tangents.

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

I am rediscovering how fun and challenging it is to paint with

watercolors again.

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark
What are your ideas on these Open Eye Art images?

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Open Eye Workshop

Hong Finding inspiration....

The group in deep concentration looking for outlines and ideas....

Fay and Helen connecting

Saga's masterpiece in simplicity...

Open Eye Art workshop.....


Acrylic on glass

Here are some great pictures from our "tester" Eye Opening Workshop on

October 27th

Eye opening workshops blend inspirational and strategic

exercises with a “ hands on” creative art project,

held at dynamic off-site or on-site facilities.

Intensive, fast paced, energizing encounters are led by

two professionals from diverse art and marketing

back-grounds. Custom designed exercises and

“Eye Opener” stations utilize different cognitive

tools and stimuli to help drive fresh ideas and creative

problem solving.

Faye getting inspiration from the "synchronicity" exercise.

Juliet making sure we kept to a schedule

Dana working out her ideas for a new high tech product for kids.

Open Eye Workshop .......

“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind…creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.”

Daniel Pink

Maddie's concept for a cool mirror embellishment

Doug brainstorming his "tea party in a box" idea.

Not everyone is in their “right mind” ;

That is why we created Open Eye Art.

Whether we are right- brained, left-brained, type A, type B,

amateur or expert…everyone has an ability to be creative.

Sometimes we just need a little help bringing the right brain back

into balance with the left so that we can open our eyes to

our own creativity.

Saga sharing some of her "passions"

Jenny sharing the concept of synchronicity.

Monday, October 11, 2010

available paintings/nautical charts....

Jennifer Winship Mark Acrylic and Collage on Nautical Chart 2010

I am finally settling down to price, title and frame my 28 Nautical

chart pieces.

Jennifer Winship Mark Acrylic and Collage on Nautical Chart 2010

Many of the Pacific Coast Charts I used for these pieces were in

the collection of Don Ritz . Many were actually on his sailboat for

many years.

Jennifer Winship Mark Acrylic and Collage on Nautical Chart 2010

I am looking forward to doing more charts of the San Francisco area.

Jennifer Winship Mark Acrylic and Collage on Nautical Chart 2010

This chart has a distinctive Northwest inlet feeling.

new experiment in faces.....

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark 2010

Here are a few big eyed "eye-dias" I have been working on for

a project for OPEN EYE ART. I had so much fun doing these

studies in watercolor.

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark 2010

I would love to experiment with an ETSY store just

to see if there is a market for

prints .

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark 2010

I must admit this girl was another Mark Ryden inspiration.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Gold Leafing with Nancy Thorn

Jennifer Winship Mark

acrylic

I took a great Gold Leafing Class from Nancy Thorn www.goldleafdesign.net and learned a minute smattering of the many tricks of Water Guilding and Oil Guilding.

Here is the Italian Style frame I guilded and then created the traditional scraffito painting details using traditional egg tempera that I scratched into using a sharpened stick.

The acrylic painting is an experiment I did for our

OPEN EYE ART

Can you find the eye in this piece?

More nautical charts....

Jennifer Winship Mark

collage, acrylic on nautical chart

40 x 50

Butterfly Boats off Peacock Spit

Jennifer Winship Mark

collage, acrylic on nautical chart

22x18

Finally finished my last charts....

                                                         Jennifer Winship Mark
                                                   acrylic and collage on nautical chart

                                                                  35 x 45

                                                   Cape Blanco Light House

                                               I Worked for 6 days solid and
                                      finally finished my last 5 nautical chart acrylic paintings. I first
              aged the nautical charts, stamped, collaged, gold leafed, wrote and spattered all to give
a "depth" to the art piece. I have become an expert on all sorts of obscure historical facts about the NW coast. I have even discovered my ancestors came to Oregon before Lewis and Clark. The Winship Brothers arrived in Oregon on the Albatross and tried to set up a fur trading fort, but it was unfortunately flooded out.
I always knew I belonged in the NW ! Now it is time to frame these 28 original works.

Jennifer Winship Mark
collage and acrylic on nautical chart
40x48

Scene from around Canon Beach Oregon

                                                             Jennifer Winship Mark
                                                    collage and acrylic on nautical chart
                                                                             40x48

Turn of the century Gillnet Boats fishing the mouth of the Columbia River where it meets the Pacific Ocean.
These boats were known as the Butterfly Fleet. They were efficient , graceful and beautiful.

Jennifer Winship Mark
collage and acrylic on nautical chart
40x48
Sailors off Vancouver Island