Hi, TACers,
Today we were a smaller group as some of us are travelling
with more to take off soon. Australia,
Italy and more! We should be having some
good stories and travel inspired art upon their return. We decided to just keep going even if the
group is smaller!
41 - Light Foreground, Dark Background
SUE started with a piece she did on the plane coming home
from her trip. It was a landscape that
had some interestingly stylized flowers and trees. She also shared a piece from last week’s
assignment where she used an interesting stencil of groups of men. Very intriguing. And she worked a little more
on her boat, city skyline and fog piece.
JO is trying to paint glass and was quite successful with
her crystal glasses with a rich wine colored background. She worked from a photo. We were glad to see her.
There was discussion of how useful a black and white photo
can be to help with value and to see what a subject would look like when it is
flattened out.
HEATHER washed some lemons off her paper and painted over
it. The lemons became elusive yellow
orbs in a non-representational piece.
JOANIE had three
pieces, an abstracted eucalyptus pod that looked a bit like an aroused emu, a
view of twin peaks and an enlarged pussy willow blossom on dark toned
paper.
AVELINA was exploring using mask and managed to spill it on herself
but she kept working. She had two, both
with rich dark backgrounds, nearly black, that she mixed using several
colors. One was of leaves and the other
was a carousel horse.
Sometimes mask can roughen the paper when you remove it and Shirley
had seen a video where the woman smoothed the area with the back of a spoon.
SHIRLEY shared three of her vintage Japanese fabric pieces
and she continues to move away from exact representations and adding her own
take.
CAROLE D. wanted feedback on a landscape and you know how we
can give great advice! She is soon off
to Italy for 2 weeks!
MARJORIE nipped in at the last minute tp share another
wrinkled piece that she had started but it will not be completed until she
returns from Australia. She will be
there by the time you get this.
44 - Abstract from a Commonplace Object
That’s it for now.
See you next week!
Joanie