Our sharing and discussion was fairly quick this time with just a few of us attending.
30 - Hard Edges
- Joanie started with her piece. She didn’t enjoy this experiment and was stuck in it all being flat and hard. Her subject was looking out of her workroom window through the rain at the tree and houses across the street. Because it was so grey she decided to use intense color-opera, yellow, blue and then outlined in pen.
- Carmel worked on an older rose piece she had set aside. It was big, bold and beautiful with rich pinks reds and purples. She left white lines between her wet in wet shapes and there was intriguing detail in the stamens. It was a bit Georgia O’Keefe-ish.
- Janie did koi and painted dry. She managed to get very wet looking water with a dry brush and it sparkled with white paper showing through.
- Carol did two versions of a tangerine, one more toward botanical and one less so. Shirley reminded us that mixing magenta and yellow can make a good orange.
- Marjorie did a second aerial view and combined it with the hard edges which she was much happier with. She painted Thornton Beach, her favorite beach in San Francisco. It was of the water, beach and trails in and around the dunes. She used wax and frisket to preserve her whites.
- Shirley shared 3 pieces, two based on sand dollars and one with an ethereal figure with a red opera length glove. Her first sand dollar was more somber in greyish hues and the second was hot and wild with oranges, reds and pinks. She was more focused about where she wanted her hard and soft edges. She also painted the first layer on a dark, rainy day with only window light and when she saw it the next morning it was so bright she decided to tone it down…but the colors were still pretty darn hot!
We WILL meet next week and the experiment is:
1 - Compose from the Top
Until then,
Joanie and Shirley