So – a side-by-side comparison of Monday vs Wednesday. Lots of ideas from the teacher resulted in new touches.
before/after
Category: art
etch-a-sketch
At my painting class, I’m experimenting with oil paint additives like stand oil and wax! I’m able to try things out, then scrape down the whole experiment and start over – like an etch-a-sketch! Two experiments from today, before they disappeared!
final
ok! I think this is it – but I’m going to check in daylight for the colors. I was way off, then mixed the color with a real person – put the paint on their skin (so nice to have a willing partner). So it looks “wrong” to me this evening, but also much better than the chalky colors I was mixing before. Whew!
It’s hard to get the camera to capture the color, too! So this is a whole second effort (see earlier posts) and I’m glad I did it.
BECU 13
The next portrait in this series. I left this one a little less refined.
Becu9
Emily Dickinson
I decided to pair some poetry with this credit card art. Mom liked Emily – I didn’t know which poems. I hadn’t read much at all. I dug into our Complete Works. Hit and miss for me – some amazing ideas and lots of lofty Spiritualism.
And a silly guy to use up the paint:
Painting class!
First class! Assignment was to play with pushing paint around, wet, dry, variety of tools, not to represent anything – for three hours. Oh yeah – and here’s some collage stuff. Go!
re-working, re-working
first try
middle of 12 tries
last try!
So . . . re-working, letting first tries go, re-working, letting middle tries go. When to stop??? I can see the first try had some “truth” to it, and so did the last. Learned a lot.
ch-ch-ch-changes
I had a great class where the assignment was basically to draw something, then keep adding changes to the drawing that derailed it, wrecked it, changed it completely. It broke all these old ideas: that things have to be planned, that things have to be perfect, that if it’s not working then throw it out. The challenge was to stay curious about the changes and be brave! Erasers work great.
december 2017
