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Category: OCA Level 1

Part 2: Collections

Posted on 2024-03-102024-05-01

Table of Contents Reflections Collections as Portraiture This section is the first time all the planning and creativity came together almost at the point I read through the section. From…

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Assignment 1: Here and There

Posted on 2024-01-062024-02-18

Terrible photography aside, a collection of twenty small square paintings each showing a different image. Blue skies dominate the collection, with a handful of bright reds, oranges, and industrial browns…

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Research: Looking at Artists

Posted on 2023-12-122024-02-09

Summary Thoughts I got into this work and looked at a lot of artists, attended galleries, and read books, as I looked at what resonated with me and what I…

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Part 1: Repeating repetition

Posted on 2023-12-102023-12-21

Table of Contents Reflections Focus: I find it far easier to hold my focus for hours on a single painting than to get through a dozen quick ones in a…

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Introductions

Posted on 2023-10-122023-10-21

My third unit with the OCA, and the final one of my first level. What can I say about myself at this point? Drawing Skills, and Practice of Painting, were…

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Process: Recovery is a Quiet Thing

Posted on 2023-06-132023-06-13

Here is consolidated some overall process, not related to a specific painting but rather to the construction of the project itself. Model Sessions Below are some selections from pastel sessions,…

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Process: A Place to Step Off From, A Place to Step Onto

Posted on 2023-06-122023-10-18

Conceptually, this is the physical artifact created from my process of recovery and healing. It is the signpost closing off a period of grief, struggle and recovery. As the Coda…

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Process: Daily Affirmations

Posted on 2023-05-112023-06-13

Here, my guiding prompts were ‘Struggle’ and ‘Recovery’. As in the others, I was holding events in my career in mind, as I worked through my ideas here. At the…

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Research: Action Painting / Tachism / Art Informel

Posted on 2023-05-112023-05-11

The Tate refers to Tachism as the European response to the American Abstract Expressionism2. Also the Tate links it to Art Informel. So scanned through a variety of artists linked…

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Research: Application of Paint

Posted on 2023-05-112023-05-11

There is a lot of take in from my less than exhaustive foray into exploring how paint is applied. I attended the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Artist Project, and…

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