My beautiful young bride has been doing P90X. I know that I have talked about it on the show before, but she is really kicking butt at it. My experience was that it instead kicked MY butt. Anyway, I tell her that she is beautiful and that she is my wild thing. This journal entry is devoted to that, complete with D. H. Lawrence's quote, "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Watch it on the ustream raw: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19016563 and http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19018097 because I blew a breaker and had to start again.
Watch the 5 minute version on the You Tube: Art Journal Wild Thing

Featured artists this week were:
+Darcy Wilkinson http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/2011/11/tangled-chameleon.html
+Kerri Love http://yfrog.com/nwn23yej
+jay the viking http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/Juriaan13/BlackWidowsmall.jpg
+Leslie Herger http://campl.us/g2lA
and +Bill Flowers http://www.redbubble.com/people/SnakeArtist

This week's in channel guest links:

http://comfortableshoesstudio.com
http://artjournaling.ning.com
http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/
http://moon-light-creations.blogspot.com/
http://www.ProfessionalEncourager.com
https://www.artisticbiker.com
http://must-love-paper.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/threedot
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/Timeless
http://moon-light-creations.webs.com/
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/comfortableshoes/3/1/0/

Also, there were some artist resource links provided:
http://www.posemaniacs.com
http://www.posespace.com
http://lovecastle.org/draw/
http://www.artist-reference.com/
and http://fineart.sk/

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I've been painting a popcorn in Painting Class. I've been using this to illustrate basic shading and highlight techniques, as well as a bit of my own flair and why I do it. Anyway, I'm calling this one done and I'll start a new project next week.

You can join me weekly for Painting Class at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oasisgalleryok. Live drawing and painting classes are absolutely free, but it's a password protected channel to make sure that everyone who wanders in there is there on purpose. You get the password from the weekly newsletter here: https://www.artisticbiker.com/newsletter.

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My dad and I were able to get the central heat unit running. Once I get the wiring into some conduit, build a cabinet and a Plenum, this baby'll be ready for the Midnight at Oasis art parties! In the meantime, it certainly is nice to not be chilled to the bone while working in the studio!

It's not pretty, but it works!
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This week I ended up running out of town for the day job and missing out on the weekly broadcast of The Artistic Biker Live! I did manage to take a break from my globetrotting to have both the drawing class and the painting class this week as well as getting the membership area of my website going.

The membership area of my site signs you up for the newsletter where the password for the classes is published every week. You will get 50% off of any workshops offered and it also signs you up for prize drawings like gift certificates to Dick Blick or some personal art work. Premium membership gets you all of that as well as unlimited, download access to all of the classes, PDFs and videos and a total of 75% off of the workshops.

Drawing Class 1:1 Drawing a Gazing Ball went on sale this week here, it's free to premium members. Painting Class 1:1 Color Wheels also went on sale this week here: https://www.artisticbiker.com/category/ppp/

Click here to sign up for membership by going to https://www.artisticbiker.com/membership.

The Drawing Class this week was about seeing the basic shapes in the real world. With everything being made up of circles, triangles, and rectangles, I present you with some exercises you can do that will help you find them in everything you see. That class is still available for free at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18827823

The Painting Class this week centered around adding depth to the popcorn painting. I discussed shading techniques that make the object stand out and give it depth. That class is still available for free at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18847447

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2 Hours on Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18725877
6 minutes on YouTube: Art Journaling Christmas Card

On this week's The Artistic Biker Live! My mom the producer was back from her globetrotting adventures. We were also joined by my beautiful daughter Girl1, who showed off her "Daddy's Girl" tattoo. She was the subliminal baby this week.

With all that excitement we chase a LOT of rabbits on the show, including discussing using my waterbrush as an ink filled brush pen! (which I LURVES!!!) Somewhere past half way done with the show, I finally managed to make a few card prototypes for Christmas this year. I'll probably re-do all of them this weekend and then get them to the printer. I could print them myself, but it's way more cost and time effective to go to Staples (free endorsement).

This week's featured artists were:

+Eveline Hessels http://eveline-timeless.blogspot.com/2011/11/urban-sketching-from-home-2.html
+Darcy Wilkinson http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/2011/11/mandala.html
@artistpoetgirl http://mypurpledoorstudios.blogspot.com/2011/11/because.html
@sandyjonesUK has a daughter that made this http://yfrog.com/ocf1kgsj

In the chat this week were:

http://theartisticbiker.com
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-junque-studio
http://teardrop-loveandbeloved.blogspot.com/
http://themusicalscrapper@blogspot.com
http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/threedot
http://www.ProfessionalEncourager.com
http://artjournaling.ning.com
http://eveline-timeless.blogspot.com/
http://moon-light-creations.blogspot.com/
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/Timeless
http://www.youtube.com/user/EvelineUK
http://www.comfortableshoesstudio.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/coffee_and_art/
http://inkiwell.blogspot.com/

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