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| Salminen by Avelina |
Inspiring for some, daunting for others
Summary: abstract + realism, loose + detail, jigsaw shapes with color areas, one main focal area
Next week: Jane Hofsetter
Note from Carol
About John Salminen:
Shirley, thanks for this. I go to a lake near Duluth every summer but timing never allowed a workshop there. He is a Finnish-American man with considerable talents. Interesting that he and Cheng-Khee Chee, another remarkable artist, live in a town of 80K people in the far north. I scoured the area with long summers up there. Salminen was the juror for the CWA show here a few years ago, gets good press about his workshops and I've seen lovely paintings from folks who studied with him. Cheng-Khee Chee comes out this way regularly (3 sons in Bay Area) and worth seeking out for a workshop. Formerly from Taiwan, he wound up somehow, as the librarian at the Univ. of Minn.Duluth campus, painting outside the day job…His workshops are 5 days, with everything from ink floating over rice paper in a tub, to crinkled paper that you whisk the dry brush over to create initial impressions, to dripping paint onto Illustration Board, to lots of lifting and layering when painting Koi or other subjects. One approach per day. Terrific fun and quite inspiring when you feel the need to become more expansively creative.
Keep those painter suggestions coming! I LOVED Ann Blockley's work!
Best, Carol F.I looked up Cheng-Khee Chee and loved his work, as well. -Shirley
Cheng-Khee Chee
Article - the Study of Color
Pam found another great article on the Daniel Smith site:
The Study of Color
Peninsula Museum of Art
There is no watercolor exhibit showing now, but I have heard great things about this place:
Peninsula Museum of Art