Tuesdays At Creightons - Nov 11
We were a big group of ten today and took most of the chairs! We were also noisier and chattier.
Shirley asked our hostess if there was anything we could do for them and, as usual she said “no” but Shirley pressed on and asked if positive Yelp reviews would be okay and this was greeted with a much more positive response. So, please, take the time to give a positive review, although you might want to also say that Tuesday mornings seem a bit busier than other days. :o))
On to # 53, Elusive Planes. Many of us found this project difficult although we did a pretty good job of it. Our enthusiastic Marjorie loved it!
- Avelina did “Elusive Trains” in gentle colors with spots of brights. She also did “The Elusive Crosswalk” with her familiar version of people in a similar color palette. Both had a sense of movement. She also did a sweet portrait of a young girl in graphite with a very colorful background and this made her much happier.
- Janie did a fall tree that was more elusive that she thought. We saw cactus and cliffs as well!
- Pam shared a small watercolor sketch from a walk in West Marin where a path disappeared into trees with lovely light.
- Shirley was exploring Kandinsky and tried denser and denser spatter. She worked from the bottom up and added one of her favorites, splatter, and some ink.
- Sue did a quiet piece with Viridian Green and Chinese White with plastic wrap. She used saran wrap and the result made us think of ocean, waves, glaciers……
- Marjorie was gone for three weeks so she was playing “catch up” and managed to marry a couple of the experiments quite successfully. First was a blue and green with frisket and candlewax, then she went bigger with reds and purples which was a response to a fortune cookie fortune (I will continue to take chances and be glad I did), and finally a greenish, blueish, goldish piece with more wax and frisket that took us to mystery places. One of the pieces had a place where the water and paint puddled thickly and it was a bit shiny when it dried and we thought that could be useful. They all had a lot of energy, just like Marjorie.
- Carmel also enjoyed this project and liked that the planes lend themselves well to geometric designs. She incorporated alcohol, salt and tea and it made her paper stink but the color moved back and forth and no one has to smell the paper anyway.
- Joanie did a moon picture of a moonrise she and Shirley saw last week but she wasn’t thrilled with it. Then she did another of the bay with that pinky/mauvy look the atmosphere gets around here sometimes and she felt that was more successful.
There will be NO MEETING AT CREIGHTON’S NEXT WEEK!!!! We will be going to the Academy of Sciences on a Field Trip arranged by Pam. The trip is full and those who registered will be getting an email from her with details.
Our next meeting at Creighton’s will be on November 25 and we pulled two experiments: #21-Grey Fields with Bright Accents and
#59-Use Just One Brush
If you are feeling clever you could combine the two!
Have a great two weeks!
Joanie and Shirley
Cafe Seventy8 Reception
The show will be at the cafe until Saturday, November 29.
Cafe Seventy8, 28 29th Street, San Francisco
Tuesday at Creightons - Nov 04
Before I get to the usual news, I want to encourage all you painters out there to meet with us whenever you can. The group is populated by smart, talented, enthusiastic, supportive and fun people. We all benefit from this time spent together.
#15: Express a Mood
- I tried painting while listening to a Maria Muldaur CD. I thoroughly enjoy painting to music and often use it to set a mood, especially if I am working on something that will take some time. It sets a tone that I can match for the duration of the piece.
- Peg brought in painting of a specific model that inspires some of her best nudes. Hot, sweaty and strong!
- Marjorie wanted sparkle and to keep her whites no matter what, so used a combination of candle wax, frisket and salt. Her abstract was active and had a sense of depth within the colors. She was able to reconstitute her old frisket with water with no problems.
- Avelina celebrated her joy over the Gigantes winning with a painting of figures either dancing in the streets or engaging in an orgy, depending on how you held the paper. She followed up with another painting of a lady in the hills, either reclining peacefully or recovering from a hangover. Avelina is sometimes a wild woman.
- Carmel produced a lovely landscape, subtle and tranquil (not lonely) with a yellow sky.
Misc.
Carole was working on the exercise from the week before. She did create mud and there was a lot of discussion of how not to do that:
.Use paints with the least amount of pigments in the ingredients. For more information about pigment numbers, go to Pigments through the Ages
.Even in wet-on-wet, you can isolate the mixes to stay mostly with two colors. It's that third color that is the killer.
.Try the Cyan/Magenta/Yellow color wheel, instead of the Red/Blue/Yellow wheel.
Sue brought an abstract leaf/arrowhead/boat image that needed a background. She is thinking about stamping patterns or deep washes with a white outline around the edge of the form. She also showed some plein air landscapes in her carry-about book.
The Watercolor Artist Magazine for Dec 2014 has an article on using your blues that Avelina highly recommends. Here is a link to their website:Watercolor Artist December 2014 Issue
For those interested in Zentangle (the patterning/doodling we talked about) here is one of thousands of sites: Zentangle
Next exercise: #43 - Create Elusive Planes - pgs 116 + 118
Cheers, Shirley
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