As we were settling in Marjorie arrived and was “grousing”, which led to a discussion of the word. Interesting… (see end of post)
47 Paint from Aerial Perspective
There were some interesting perspectives this week!
- Pam used a photo she took this summer in the Sacramento Delta with rectangles and sinuous lines in greens, golds and browns. She was drawn to the patterns of the fields and river. She thinks she needs more darks.
- Mary is working on a full sheet and we saw the first layer. She is working from a photo of Sand Pond in the Sierra Buttes. She is finding that working from the top and side at the same time ischallenging. She had some beautiful color combinations. She is working very realistically and at the same time the piece looks very abstract.
- Carole didn’t bring a piece but she was busy “absorbing” and being decorative!
- Shirley decided to just have fun and painted the starship Enterprise hovering over the earth, which she composed on the computer.
- Joanie did a cup of coffee, big and cropped. Her bubbles looked pretty real.
- Janie did a charming and cheerful map of her neighborhood.
- Carmel’s was an intensely colored everglades in greens, blues and purple with a pop of rust-yummy!
- Marjorie wasn’t very happy with hers (remember the grousing?) She wanted to see what would happen if she used two yellows-lemon yellow and naples yellow-and said it was Toxic Waste in the Arctic. We agreed with her title but disagreed with her that it wasn’t okay. It was actually very interesting.
Jeanette popped in near the end and shared her Design Class work, mostly in black and white. Some really interesting work.
We had talked about maybe having a show at Creighton’s but they can’t move the artwork that is already there so it is a “No Go”.
Next week: 30 - Use Mostly Hard-Edged Shapes - pgs 89 + 91
Holiday Schedule: We will meet next Tuesday, the 16th. We will decide on the 16th if we will meet on the 23rd.
See you Tuesday!
Joanie and Shirley
grouse (v.) “complain,” 1885 (implied in grouser), British Army slang, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Norman French dialectal groucer, from Old French groucier “to murmur, grumble,” of imitative origin (compare Greek gru “a grunt,” gruzein “to grumble”). Related: Groused; grousing. As a noun from 1918, from the verb.(Online Etymology Dictionary)