Monday – Thomas Robson – Abstraction
I had hoped the weather would allow us to go outside to paint every
Monday, but it was not to be , I think there was only one day that could have happened in the middle of
the term and by then I was doing other things. I choose to have a bit of fun
with watercolour, because it’s a traditional outdoor medium and because I wanted
to dabble in it a bit more.
Thomas has a wonderful eye for improving your work
although with watercolour ‘fixing’ something is fraught with difficulty. I
managed to produce a couple of pieces that I’ve given away to ‘new’ parents.
(not abstract!) Still thinking of ideas to help me with my goal to produce some
abstract pieces, I’m a realist I’m afraid and can’t just put something don
straight from my brain. I need reference, fortunately I have a lot, I love to
photograph things and I composite and colour match within the lens so know it
will work on canvas, I often take more than one photo and put them together so
they are not what was there initially.
Wednesday – Sarah Brock – A relationship with Paint
What can you say about Sarah, she’s so enthusiastic, about your
work, about your ideas, about your process, about your result. I decided to
continue with portraiture and utilise my ‘double sided’ canvas idea from the
block week.
The first week I picked a
photo I had taken of my daughter a few years ago while on holiday, I chose to
put on the ‘other’ side what Samantha was looking at. I covered three
stretchers, two with canvas and one with calico and then went through the
process of sealing the material and then gessoing . I produced six pieces on
three canvases over the term in Sarahs class and Rogers.
Thursday – Roger Key – 2D Open studio
I used Roger’s class to continue what I was doing in Sarah’s class,
doing two pieces at once in oil does have it’s challenges like finding a way of
keeping one side from touching anything while your trying to paint the other. I
actually broke my habit of only painting one thing at a time but it took me all
term to get there.
I put two of my works in the end of term exhibit and they had to be
suspended from the ceiling, make them a piece to be walked around ie a 3D
piece, of sorts.
