Our
assignments last week led us on a rich dialogue! We looked at paintings that inspired you in the New Year. I was impressed with your choices, and inspired in turn.
After our discussion I set some homework for you:
Tami:
1. Work on brush handling. Check out the step by step painting web site for some exercises to try. (She also has a buying guide if you ant to get any new brushes.)
2. Your goal is to finish some of your paintings, so please choose the one you want to work on and be prepared to work on it!
Becky:
1. Explore Red. One of your choices for inspiration was this one, below. Your assignment is to buy some new tubes of red and paint splotches of many different mixtures of red, taking some notes, and make a list or a chart of colors you like best so you can begin to incorporate them into your work.
2. Bring a photo of a landscape that means something to you, and be prepared to riff on it in an abstract way.
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| Abstract Landscape No 1 Mixed Media By Lelia Demello |
My choices were these:
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This one called "Rock" by Chilean Abstract Expressionist painter Roberto Matta, who coined the term “inscape” for abstract paintings he made exploring the psychoanalytical landscape of the human mind. |
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And this one by Wassily Kandinsky - Winter Landscape, 1909 |
And my goal is to finish the paintings I start. To that end, I've been working this week on my Winter Landscape of the Coburg Hills:
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