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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Projects: From inside looking outside, Perspective
Note I decided to combine my efforts across Project 1 and 2, due to the selection of subject matter. It seemed to make more sense to me this way. Reflection…
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Exhibition: Denyse Thomasos, “Just Beyond”
The first impression of the AGO’s career retrospective of Denyse Thomasos, “Just Beyond“, is that of the incredible size of her works. Meters tall, and wide, the works that welcome…
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Student Collaboration: Visual Broken Telephone
The Rest of the Word (ROW) student group began a collaboration project in January. The structure is: There are currently nine students participating, so this will take a little under…
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Assignment 3: Millstone and Daydream
The coffee mug is an anchor, heavy and large at the bottom of the painting. The man holds the mug, accepting the stability it brings, despite how it also holds…
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Project 3.3: People in Context
Reflective Summary I have done less than the bare minimum for these exercises. I must come back and re-do. I prioritized work on the assignment, rather than these two exercises….
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