Postings of my various and sundry attempts at something like art
We started a new painting class project in February. It’s a picture our teacher took while touring around near La Crescent / La Cross.
The actual blog post is at https://www.notion.so/Woodcarver-s-Barn-ef644546068e41c5887a0256908c1a18
Doing things a little differently this time. Instead of writing my blog post here, I wrote it using Notion.so.
Early December 2020 project, from a photograph taken by our instructor.
Continue reading “Seal Beach, California”
One of the other students gave us a picture of one of her flowers, an amaryllis, and our teacher turned it into a class lesson.
Continue reading “Amaryllis, November 11, 2020”
This was a class project, and it was fun. We used some techniques that we’d learned previously, applying them to an whole project.
Continue reading “Barn, Snow, Pine Tree, and Fences”
Painting a maritime scene from a photo taken in Nova Scotia. In this class project, we learned how to take a photograph and arrange and compose it to make a better painting.
Continue reading “Nova Scotia Maritime”
We were given several images of fallen leaves, and told to paint them. I put together a composition using one of the leaves.
Continue reading “Autumn Leaves”
Started this one a couple weeks ago and finished it up today.
I used a very different palette for me:
This painting was begun near the beginning of September 2019, and took quite a while to complete because of missed classes and so on. It’s a relief to finally get it done. I’m rather pleased by how it turned out.
Continue reading “Sunflowers and Barn”So today, 2019-08-28, my painting class is participating in an art show at the facility our classes are held at. A couple weeks ago, we worked on matting the various pieces we were going to put in the show. There were no limits said on what would be okay, and we were mainly asked by the instructor for quantity.
Continue reading “painting class, a show, and politics”