Artist Studio
This demonstration had two components in the lesson the first was the concept of contrast and the second was using a rigger to create wonderful textures. All successful paintings are build on contrasts: contrast of value, color, shape, size, line and every element of design. This means contrast warm against cool, dark against light, soft
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I have been having a wonderful time in Maine with some of the greatest students in the world, a creative and intrepid lot who brave the elements of early fall on the coast of Maine. We have had it all fabulously wonderful light filled days and windy and cold hunker down next to the wall adventures. But the paintings have been great and the group of oil and watercolor painters have really lifted this workshop to the best ever. We moved indoors to escape the elements and worked on still lifes, florals, and composition and design. Here is my demonstration using some wild flowers and pieces of tree branches, and wonderful new consignment shop pots.
Keep up the gestural line and color and work you way back to a state of interest and excitement.
Let’s step out of our comfort zones this week and really loosen up. For me this is the hardest thing I do, and I know that it is not my strong suit. Collage makes me think with the left side of my brain and really works against my organic and spontaneous action approach to painting.
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This jumpstart is a really a lesson I work on a lot with my students, it involves trying to make a painting by taking all of the principle subject matter and tying these separate pieces of information into one creative dark middle value shape. If done well you will have considered how the shape works
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