Sunday, August 24, 2008

I Secretly Used Mixed Media






These paintings came from an assignment I gave my watercolor students. Paint 2 versions of the same subject using 80% of 4 neighboring colors on the color wheel and 20% of their complimentary colors. Once I had two versions done I couldn't stop myself from doing 2 more. Then I found all kinds of things in my art supply drawer to use on top of the watercolor. So these are mixed media paintings. I just love to say that, because it is one of my goals to use more mixed media in some of my work. Other of my goals include making an important contribution to the field of drawing and finding a solution to end war. Ho Hum....

Friday, August 1, 2008

Autobiographical Painting


This is a painting exercise for a workshop I will be teaching next week in Arizona. The workshop is about how to arrange a composition using quaint subject matter. When I was mid way thru the painting I decided it was really boring. However, I didn't want to put in anything in that wasn't quaint enough. Suddenly I decided to make it an autobiographically painting and put in subject matter that was meaningful to me. This is how it turned out. What is your definition of quaint?