For the past few months, I have been very involved in the organization of a showcase of the arts in my home town of Vernon BC. This took place on June 21 and was a fabulous success. A delicious long table style dinner, lots of paintings, and demonstrations, music, entertainment and a wearable art fashion show.
A week before, several painters got together to hand-paint scarves that were part of a silent auction - very well received. Here are a couple of scarves drying outside.
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Wow - a busy week in the program. There's about 5 to 6 hours of video to watch - not all in one, but several most with demos, some live interactive calls, some showing adjustments of student work. Very helpful and instructional - and very time consuming. When do I actually find time to do my homework???
Whine, whine, whine! Ha ha. I did find a bit of time and using a limited palette of yellow ochre, red, black and white, I jumped in to work on the principles of design and value. Here's what I ended up - btw - I don't like these at all. But... since this is supposed to be a journey of discover, maybe that's who I really am??? COLOUR!!!! Working in a series of 3 to 6 boards, our homework was to play with colour, not forgetting design and value. I spent a fair bit of time transferring acrylic paint from jars to squeeze bottles. What a nasty, messy job! And being a frugal person at heart, I couldn't stand seeing some paint still in the jar. I couldn't get it all into the squeeze tubes - so how could I use it......? Check out this week's homework boards! That's what happened to those dribs and drabs of paint that were left in the jars. This is week 4"s homework - using only black and white, focus on design and value - create differences in as many ways as possible... and then go back and look for where the loud conversation is located and where the quiet conversation is taking place. How to add interest and conversation within the loud and quiet areas; how to take the viewer on a tour of the painting... whew!
Here is one in a progression, left to right, top then bottom. The last one is a segment from the top right corner and I think it is the most powerful. What do you think? In early May, I started an online course with Nicholas Wilton - a program that I have been waiting over a year to join. So excited about it. The first assignments didn't even involve painting - we were asked to create vision boards - one for what inspires us, another for our dreams and the third to show our work past, present and future.
And finally we got to paint! Using 12" x 12" boards, we were 'played' - no particular objective other than having fun - which I did. We also created a 'throw away board' - the board where we unload left over paint etc. That throw away board is actually my favourite! Check them out! |
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