Painting – Joy and Challenge
Lots of painting happening over here. Currently into a still life. Mostly loving every minute – but who knew that you could feel angst toward a red pepper?
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More About Gestures
Gesture drawing as a warm up exercise can get boring. Here are a few tips to help keep it interesting:
1. Get lots of sports photos to work from. 100 or more recommended. You certainly won’t benefit from doing the same 10 over and over.
2. Ask a family member to pose for you. Have a list of poses for them such as “shoot a basketball”, “swing a golf club”, etc. They only have to hold the pose for about 10 seconds. (Gestures are fast.)
3. Use a sports movie or show and freeze the action to sketch from.
4. The ultimate gesture challange is to work from a sports movie and only freeze the action in your mind. You can do this as a sport spectator too.
The main thing is to make it fun so that you will keep practicing. Draw on!
Fight Your Way Through
A video that creative people need to watch – especially if you are new into art. And it’s good to review this later on too! Just 2 minutes…
4 Artists Paint a Tree
Walt Disney narrates a great example of how the views of a single object can be drastically different from one artist to the next.The four artists that are featured: Walt Peregoy, Marc Davis, Eyvind Earle, and Josh Meador, take on the task of drawing the exact same tree with very different approaches. Each of their styles adds something different and amazing to their finished products.
Check out the video at this link: Four Artists Paint a Tree
A Gentle Spirit
This painting will be available at The Art Centre, Westmount Mall, London, ON Jan 16 to Jan 23, 2015. Acrylic – 24 x 24 – “A Gentle Spirit”
The Artist’s Brain
Many of us talk to ourselves. I suspect that more creative folk do this more often. It’s not a bad thing. The vast majority of our thinking happens on a subconscience level. Verbalizing is helpful for clarifying and, at times, problem solving too. What follows is a conversation that a painter may have with herself. Can you relate to this? Do you talk to yourself?
Change The Way You Look At The World
Something lovely and fun for you to watch as you head into the weekend. It’s not even 2 minutes long – enjoy! (Thanks, BuzzFeed Videos!)
That’s What Lets the Light In
My first painting from this sabbatical time – it includes a lot of collage! If you would like to know what techniques were used, scroll down and see the previous blog posts.
No Weather Day
I am having a no weather day today. This is because, when I look out my window, I see an excess of whiteness. Anyone who has taken my colour theory class will know that the colour white is considered a neutral colour – which means it is considered neither warm nor cool. (Try to teach that to someone living in North Bay.) So, the weather has been neutralized today – as have any travel plans. Painting, however, will be happening today.
To my friends who may have to have weather today – please drive slowly and carefully.