Week 4

Week 4 was great. Extra studio time, less time working on reports! This first one above is one of my assigned projects from David my mentor. The objects at the top left and lower right are pieces of photographs to be used as jump off points, but they are ripped out and placed on the canvas.

Finally started working on the gull and not the forrest floor. 

These two from the pond series I think are done or practically done. I think they have a certain photographic quality. A snapshot quickness. They will be strong when they are all done and hanging together.

This last one is done too. Very out of my comfort zone. Wrong horizon. Weird homogeneous color. Took care to make distinctive marks (Hannah would be proud!).  I also like the shape of this one and the first one. My mentor says my vertical paintings aren't very strong. The horizontal ones have deep space and the vertical ones "bog down in technique." Playing with some wider sized canvases. Too cold to make my own in the garage right now. (My hands freeze up and hurt after 10 or 15 minutes. So off to Blick Art!