No worries though. Just because I'm not bloggin' doesn't mean I'm not workin'! Here are my two oil paintings from Anne's class (I'm signed up for another semester!).
Two Pears 16"x12"
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This painting was my 'getting back into it' one. I love the organic pear shape, much as I enjoyed the orange. It had greens, yellow and reds on its skin too. Gorgeous. My interpretation turned out a bit Topsy-turvey for my like, but it goes with all the bright colors. As Anne said in class a week later, "we should make our weaknesses our strengths". However, rather than the usual interpretation, she interprets it as that one's style comes from our weaknesses, or differences. As an artists searching for my own style, I found this interesting and embodied it in my painting this week. I stopped trying to make everything perfectly rendered, the shadows natural and the gradations life like. It's called a painting for a reason! Not a photograph!! Well, this was my realization for the week.
Orange and a Bowl 12"x9"
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And here is this week's work. Sadly, the camera flash hurts the color intensity of the original but you get the main idea. I painted the background and table first, then the orange and last the bowl. I really like the way the orange turned out. Its intense color in the shadows, the drawn almost 'outline' in green that was part of a preliminary sketch, and its shadow. I wanted to paint the bowl first but I find it hard to see shapes outside of the habitat. An early oil teacher, Nancy Torres, told me to paint the background, from furthest to closest, as if you're building the layers, adding pieces in front of each other. This just made so much logical sense to me that I've remembered it since middle school.
Shockingly the orange took 10 minutes while the bowl was more than an hour, and I'm still not 100% on it. The orange just felt right while painting, as if I had a method or formula to do so, but really it just happened. In comparison, even though I'm not as happy with the bowl as I am the orange, I was relieved the painting was, to me, better than the pears. It feels like more of my style. The blending on the bowl feels like it's trying to be something someone else wants it to be, not my way of seeing it. While I'm not exactly sure how I want to see it, I'm realizing what's not my style, what I'm forcing and what is innately me. To me this is the most important.
oil paint
And here is this week's work. Sadly, the camera flash hurts the color intensity of the original but you get the main idea. I painted the background and table first, then the orange and last the bowl. I really like the way the orange turned out. Its intense color in the shadows, the drawn almost 'outline' in green that was part of a preliminary sketch, and its shadow. I wanted to paint the bowl first but I find it hard to see shapes outside of the habitat. An early oil teacher, Nancy Torres, told me to paint the background, from furthest to closest, as if you're building the layers, adding pieces in front of each other. This just made so much logical sense to me that I've remembered it since middle school.
Shockingly the orange took 10 minutes while the bowl was more than an hour, and I'm still not 100% on it. The orange just felt right while painting, as if I had a method or formula to do so, but really it just happened. In comparison, even though I'm not as happy with the bowl as I am the orange, I was relieved the painting was, to me, better than the pears. It feels like more of my style. The blending on the bowl feels like it's trying to be something someone else wants it to be, not my way of seeing it. While I'm not exactly sure how I want to see it, I'm realizing what's not my style, what I'm forcing and what is innately me. To me this is the most important.
But don't worry guys, I'm doing things besides working. Here is a photo of Derek and I at the Getty Villa in Malibu from last weekend. Mr. Getty had his estate reconstructed into a Roman country house to hold his sizable collection. It's a bit of the Cesar's Palace in Vegas, but with more research and true materials, however, a the modern architecture the threw into it doesn't always work for me. But, if you've never been, I'd recommend a sunny day to tour the grounds and then drive 30 miles up PCH to Neptune's Net to chow down on some fried fish and chips as the sun goes down over the Pacific with surfer dudes and the Hell's Angels crew (this place has serious character). Fried seafood and beer is a nice way to end a civilized day at the Getty.
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