Monday – Gary Freemantle – Painting freely and Fluently
I like Gary’s exercises they gave me a vehicle within which to
create, Design money, fold a three dimensional form from paper and paint it ( I
painted them within a landscape) Fold brown paper and paint segments in primary
colours.
Scrumbling: Load your bush, vary your mark and change pressure to
lay the paint down
Blending: Work with two
brushes one with light, one with dark paint. You can mix in liquin to thin and
spread the paint smoothly.
Ala Prima: Is a style of
painting where the piece painted while wet in one sitting, although in oils the
painting can remain workable for some days.
Too much linseed and pigments separate. Work from thin
to thick avoiding layers drying at different rates hence cracking. Work from dark to light.
‘Every mark should have an intention.’ Titanium white takes a long time to dry
so it’s the last thing to put down. Clean your brush with warm water and soap
or natural turpentine.
This is my first play with oils and I like them, they are not as
time restrictive as acrylics (dry too quickly). I’ve decided to have a go at
landscapes in this class.
Jane is a marvellous mentor, very encouraging, she is able to look
at you painting and guide you to see what it is that needs doing to improve or
to fix a problem.
Friday – Roger Key – Drawing with Wet and Dry Media
Crayon and brown paper to do black and white photos .I decided to
focus on portraits of my family.
Rogers technique teaches you reproduce what you see rather than draw
what your brain tells you a head or nose or arm looks like, which is always
distorted. Look at light and darks and draw things in relationship to each other, if you
can fool yourself it’s not even a body your sketching, not using lines just
shapes,you will be amazed at the result.
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