Prompt My guiding prompt for this image was “Grief and Recovery.” As with the others, this doesn’t mean the end painting needs to be strictly glaringly about these words, but…
Continue readingCategory: OCA Level 1
Process: Acts of Binding
Small Test Thoughts Relevant Sketches Full Size
Continue reading
Project: Recovery is a Quiet Thing
Table of Contents Reading Theme and Concept The name of this project came first: Recovery is a Quiet Thing. This name speaks to how we focus on the grief, pain…
Continue reading
Manipulating Paint and Form
During the winter, I had purchased an artwork from an overseas artist in Spain. The couriers, and customs, did not treat this work with respect, and it came to me…
Continue reading
Assignment 4: All That’s Solid Melts into Air
Across two panels, buildings are drawn against a shifting sky. Yellow light hits the buildings from the sun at the horizon. Light blues and purples imply dawn. This dawn, and…
Continue readingProject: Painting Outside
Table of Contents Reflection Research: Golden Ratio This exercise is captured in another post, here: Research: Golden Ratio Painting a Landscape Outdoors It is winter, here in Canada, and that…
Continue reading
Project: Working from Drawings and Photographs
Table of Contents Reflection Research: Golden Ratio You’ll find my notes on Golden Ratio here: here Painting from Working Drawings, Squaring Up Acrylic Sketch Another Pass Despite this piece being…
Continue readingResearch: Golden Ratio
When you google the Golden Ratio you may end up with a plethora of rather unhelpful mathematics: The number (approximately) 1.618, the formula a+b/a=a/b, the fibonacci sequence,etc.. You may also…
Continue reading
Project: Expressive Landscape
Table of Contents Reflection Research: Surrealists, Expressionists and Landscape Please see post here: Landscapes: Beyond the natural Exercise: Creating Mood and Atmosphere We’re in the depths of winter, here, and…
Continue reading
Landscapes: Beyond the natural
Surrealists Symbolists “Rather than sharing a single artistic style, they were unified by a shared pessimism and weariness of the decadence they perceived in modern society. The Symbolists sought escape…
Continue reading