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…
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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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Reflection: Deconstructing Pastels
Table of Contents Purpose In my assignment 3 feedback, my tutor remarked on my comfort level working in Pastels, and the dynamism I was able to bring to the portrait…
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…
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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…
Continue readingLecture: Contextualization
Speaker: Michele WhitingHosted By: OCA EU GroupFormat: ZoomJan 21, 2023 Notes What do we mean by contextualization? Activity 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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