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Showing posts with label variations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label variations. Show all posts
Saturday, January 16, 2010

WORKSHOP DEMOS

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The giant eye is on a 5"x7" bozzetto.  I give workshop participants the option of doing some small practice pieces of facial part...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR!

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I don't know where this expression originated but it seems to be appropriate for how I feel about the final results. The color didn'...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

2ND BLEACH PAINTING EXPERIMENT

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After completing the first bleach painting, I wondered what would happen if I used different dilutions of ink and bleach. That's what t...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009

RUINED...WIPED OUT...RE-PAINTED!

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Well, the glazing got away from me and I lost the light. Decided to use alcohol and wipe out the highlights. Bad idea. This is how you le...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

LAST DAY OF WORKSHOP: TEXTURE!

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The last day of a workshop is bitter sweet. Texture is my favorite element and I always get a kick out of sharing my ideas and seeing what ...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

DAY 4 VARIATIONS: COLOR

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Here is a painting I did as a demo. One of the students put too much red gesso on his paper so I transfered the extra and covered an failed...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

DAY 3 VARIATIONS WORKSHOP: LINE SLIDE SHOW

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Wednesday featured the element of LINE in all its manifestations, including perceived line. You can see texture is sneaking in although Fri...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

DAY 2 VARIATIONS WORKSHOP SLIDESHOW!

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Here are the two demo paintings I painted today. One is on Tyvek and the other is traditional watercolor paper with some aluminum foil shap...
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Monday, October 5, 2009

MINNESOTA "VARIATIONS" WORKSHOP DAY 1: SHAPE AND VALUE DRAWINGS

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From San Diego, I flew to Minneapolis on Sunday. Today we started "Variations" workshop with 15 enthusiastic participants. Every...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

YES, VIRGINIA, YOU CAN PAINT ON FOIL

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Here is the final result of the painting I started the other day. The GAC 200 worked beautifully. I used Golden Liquid Acrylics diluted a ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

RESURRECTION!

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Today I decided to photograph my gesso transfer process for the new book. While I was covering up old, ugly paintings with white gesso, I d...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

BROMMMER WORKSHOP DAY 4: GESSO ADDED TO THE MIX!

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Today we collaged the paper first, let it dry, covered it with diluted gesso...let that dry...then drew our image in and added paint. The e...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

GERALD BROMMER WORKSHOP DAY 3: HEAVY TEXTURE PLUS LINE

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Each day just gets better and better. I am very much attracted to this way of working. I hope to do a lot more in the future and have some...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

LINE AS SHAPE & PATTERN

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While packing a box to ship to Lubbock for the workshop I am giving next week and packing supplies for the Gerald Brommer workshop I am taki...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

"NEW" TIMES TWO!

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Thinking up blog post titles can be as much fun as creating titles for paintings. The first "new" thing is that my redesigned web...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

LAST OF THE COLOR STUDIES (FOR NOW!)

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Here is the last of the quartet of color studies. This one is ANALOGOUS COLORS (3 or 4 colors next to each other on the color wheel) As a r...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

THREE DOWN, ONE TO GO!

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I redid the painting from the last post on traditional watercolor paper and I like it much better. I am actually using white and black pigm...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

TINT AND TONE EQUAL IRIDESCENCE

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I have been re-reading Faber Birren's book from cover to cover in order to fully comprehend his ideas. He has a very formal way of expr...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

THE CHALLENGE

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It seems like there are challenges everywhere I turn. First of all, the internet signal to my computer keeps cutting out. Just when I want...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

FABER BIRREN'S COLOR CONCEPT

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In response to Rhonda Carpenter's request for more information on my last post, I will describe what I am trying to accomplis...
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