Hi, TACers!
Mar 03 / 49 - Introduce Sparkle with Salt
I am afraid I have misplaced my little red notebook so don’t have my notes from Tuesday so just quickly...it was “Introduce Sparkle with Salt”. As usual each piece was unique and there was a lot of interesting discussion on techniques. Part of my piece was really wet and the salt kept dissolving but I ended up with a cool stormy sky look.
Shirley finished her Doggie Diner dog at last.
If you haven’t been in a while, please drop in! We miss you!!!
Until Tuesday, Joanie
Mar 11 / 52 - Crumple Your Paper First
Another week, another wonderful sharing of work!
SUE started off with a scene of Central Park in New Your. It was fresh and spontaneous. We gave her some ideas for enhancing the water and reflections.
MARJORIE started on one side of the paper with a naturescape using her two new colors but she didn’t like is so she put it back in her tub to wash it off and turned it over to do something else. By the time she was done colors had bled through both sides and changed to look of each side. Really cool!
JOANIE used an unknown paper and painted a fairly realistic bit of interesting bark.
AVELINA found this experiment frustrating. She tried 300#, 140# cold press and 140# hot press. She thought she might get carpel tunnel from wrinkling the 300# and the 140# wasn’t much better. She used her favorite bright colors and was most satisfied with the hot press. She also tried a print from one piece that was interesting. She said she would never do it again.
LEE tried working with the different planes created by the crumples and did a non-representational piece trying to use a different color for each different direction of plane and then played with more color interaction at the end and added some darks.
MARY used crinkled rice paper added to watercolor paper and created an ice scene. She started with dark blue and then covered it with YES! Paste and added the rice paper and more dark blue when almost dry. She was happy with the result but not so much with the rest of the piece.
SHIRLEY shared her latest Japanese kimono fabric piece and she is starting to move away from exact reproduction. In this one she added white line with gel pen that created an interesting vibration.
MARJORIE shared her make up piece from last week. She worked on yupo and created a Chagall influenced image. She added salt which didn’t remove easily so there was real sparkle. She also figured out how to scrape out whites when it was more dry.
We had one of those “had to be there” moments about the goat in her piece and we had a great laugh!
Next week: 36 - Select Unique Subject Matter
Until then happy painting! - Joanie