we’re almost to the end of another semester of school…seems like this semester went by so very fast…projects are coming along…i’m almost done with my colored pencil project in freehand drawing…i like drawing in color so much better than in black and white…figure drawing is going great also…we finished up drawing without lines yesterday and [...]
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light bulb…
tonight i had one of those moments when everything becomes clear to me…i have been struggling to come up with next big painting idea, moving between two different ideas…it seemed the more i thought about it the more confused i became…i came downstairs and pulled out a book by Margaret Mead (family) with a bunch [...]
catching up…
well, it’s a 4 day weekend for me…was going into painting today, but decided to give my leg a day of rest (of sorts)…planning to break out the paints and get started on my next painting…
i have done A LOT of reading on art this past semester….i think this has only helped me to see [...]
how’s it going?
well, it’s going great…i have finished preparing a canvas for the kimmy/felix painting which i am going to do in impasto…i have done impasto in acrylics but never with oils…to do this i first have to get some impasto medium to speed the drying and add bulk to the paint…rose is getting some for me [...]
i finally managed to make a halfway decent painting, and then…
susan made me wash over it…all part of the experiment…but each time i rework it the process becomes easier and easier…and i finally grasped the concept of push and pull, and working the whole painting at once…i was going to take a picture of it today, but forgot my camera this morning…so, picture will be [...]
if you like it you must destroy it…
so, today i painted a beautiful charcoal and gesso figure in figure drawing…and then at the end of the period i had to white wash over the whole thing…i tried to keep some of the beautiful parts, but susan caught me and insisted i destroy it all…the idea behind this is that the painting becomes [...]
almost that time again…
school starts in a week…i took time off for the summer to read books, super clean the house, and to be sick…i did manage to get some painting in…i did a series of heads of kim (one of alan) in gesso and charcole…i bought a bundle of acrylic paints last month and then promptly got [...]
it’s only money…or, you can’t take it with you can you?
i just plunked down 93$ for acrylic paints…they were on sale at rediculously low prices at Utrecht so i couldn’t resist…i am anxious to get them and get started…they have all kinds of mediums available now, but i am interested in using acryics and exploiting their properties…for instance, they have retarteder which slows the drying [...]
teaching an old dog new tricks…
i have decided to invest in a new set of acrylic paints next week, even though i am sitting on a gold mine of oils…i’ve been using gesso and charkole and i love the simplicity (cleanup with water) of it…i’m also going to begin to sand my canvases between gesso layers…i don’t usually do this…usually [...]
new art gallery in town…
i took off to do my chores for the day and found myself half an hour early for the library…so i parked and walked down the block to the new art gallery…i was a bit surprised at the size of the building…3 large rooms…but the work was hung salon style (pieces hung two and three [...]
