Painting - On-Line Workshop Practice

Have been working hard over the last weeks on my two on-line workshops with Jane Davies'. Haven't spent this much time in my studio in a long time. 100 Drawings on Cheap Paper is all about the practice, silencing the inner critic and lots of experimenting with techniques and materials. We are also learning to observe our work - not the technical process but the visual content - stepping back observing and commenting on what we see. 'Pretend someone else made the work' - not as easy as it sounds!  Give it a try.

This is a small sampling of some of my work from the workshop. Am averaging 6 images for each lesson - would like to have at least 10, but finding time is at a premium participating in the two workshops! I am not an abstract painter, but these lessons are invaluable in my growth as an artist! Will post more as the workshop progresses. Hope you enjoy.

Each image is 9"X12"
Left is the 'Start' and right is the 'Finish'

Each image is 9"X12"
Left is the 'Start' and right is the 'Finish'

Image Size 9"X12" Variety using only black and white media

Image Size 9"X12" Variety using only black and white media

Painting and more Painting! (Colour Workshop)

Lots happening in my studio!  Signed up for two of Jane Davies'  workshops - not sure what I was thinking but am making time for painting - lots of painting! Taking 100 Drawings on Cheap Paper and Beyond the Colour Wheel- Advanced Colour Studies. The colour workshop is very time consuming - making value scales mixing colours with black and white, colour wheels, taking the colour work and desaturating them to a grey scale (using your choice of app or scanner). And that is just Lesson 1. There are six in total and we receive a new lesson every two weeks.  Glad for the two week time frame. Have posted a some samples of work from the first lesson where we worked with value of colour. When looking at art work I probably don't even realize how much value plays in the way I am viewing it.

.....I know this is a little 'dry' to be reading and looking at images of!!


VALUE SCALE

Used carbon black and titanium white paint and created a grey scale. The left shows the colour scan and the right scan is in grey scale. Interesting to look at in the desaturated photo - is 'grey' vs the colour image.

VALUE SCALE OF A COLOUR - COBALT TEAL

Adding black to create a shade and white to create a tint.  Trying to match the values to my grey scale.

Colour Scan

Desaturated Scan

COLOUR WHEEL

Picked three primary colours and tinted the red and blue to match the value of the yellow. I used nickle azo yellow, phthalo turquoise and napthol red.  You can see when looking at the 'yellow' side of the colour wheel in the desaturated image the colours are slightly off.