Twenty new things to look at! Hope you’re doing well – spring is coming.
February 2021
Author kennedyliz
New stuff in painting & drawing
Doing lots of learning around colors: saturation (low & high), neutrals, and more. What colors do I like? What colors do you like??
New paintings
There are new paintings for December & January 2021. Questions, comments welcome!
After . . .
The Rainier Beach Arts and Crafts sale is over. I’m feeling gratitude for all those who purchased art, looked at art, commented on art! I really appreciate it. I have new things to look at in Paintings and in Drawings. Thank you for your time and interest.
Art for sale!
Check out the “Rainier Beach Arts” page on my site and shop away!
Dec 5-20. Contact me for sales and shipping information. oxoxo Liz
New stuff alert
There are new things to see in paintings, drawings and figure drawings.
new stuff
Just writing to let you know that I have let go of blogging and am only adding paintings & drawings to this website now. I’m adding things weekly, so if you’re interested, I welcome you to come and stroll around my virtual studio. Check in the menu under “paintings” and “drawings.” Feedback and questions welcome. Stay well and vote early and often.
Old in Art School
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over is a memoir about a history professor, Dr. Nell Painter, who decides at age 64 to go to art school. She gets a bachelor’s, then a Master’s in art. She’s a professional artist and continues to write, and wrote her memoir in 2018. She spoke at the Northwest African American Museum, and I was happy to go.
I wish I had gone to art school – in my 20’s. But it probably works out much better for me to be old in art classes. I’m not scared to experiment and I’m far less concerned about other people’s opinions. And my time is my own, too.
And since I can’t go anywhere, and I have internet and a laptop, I’m taking art courses: abstract watercolor, abstract oil&wax, intuitive drawing, and courses from MoMA: Contemporary Art, and Sexing the Canvas (gender & art). Whew!
black & white week
The assignment this week in my ZOOM drawing class:
95% white, 5% black
95% black, 5% white
mid-greys only (no white or black)
and using all: black, white, grey
you are now leaving your comfort zone
How are you doing? I hope you’re well and not too lonely. These are uncertain times, but really, aren’t all times?
Before the virus reached Washington State, I was ready to move back into learning mode and away from production mode. I think there are 18-20 canvasses sitting in the living room (where else) and probably 75 drawings upstairs?
So, I signed up for a mix of online and in-person classes. Then the virus sent us home and my art studio went online! Now art history, contemporary art class joins a drawing class , etc, etc!
The drawing curriculum is from Sue Hettmansperger an artist and professor emeritus, via my art studio (The Miller School of Art). Her own work is beautiful.
The curriculum consists of things like: sit in a darkened room, recording your reactions to noises. Notice that she doesn’t say “draw the sounds” – it’s draw your reactions. And: “Pair intention with a particular mark and its most suitable medium.” It’s an intuitive drawing class. So I’m having to remind myself again and again – I’m not depicting – I’m drawing my responses. Awk-ward!
