Weeks 11 & 12

This week found me traveling to Sag Harbor, NY to meet with Super-Mentor April Gornik. She is very insightful and gives awesome critiques that are very helpful. I know some other people have had some difficulties with their big name mentors and I am very lucky and grateful to April. I told her the bird picture I sent out (as seen on the previous blog) was the last one. I forgot I had already started this one.

I think the birds above and these trees are heavily influenced by my paper about Gerhard Richter. I am playing with that soft mostly grey palette. Very eerie indeed.

This UFO painting is coming slowly, but I want it done right. It's been a while since I did a traditional landscape background (blue further back, yellow closer up, etc.). I'm a little rusty with this one.

This last one is an under painting for a new winter scene. Under painting in the compliments didn't help me so using relative colors might.

Weeks 9 & 10

These two are as done as they are going to get before visiting NY mentor April Gornik next week. Layers, layers, and more layers. I need to let them dry, ship them, etc. for a meeting with April on 9/21.

I don' t know about the colors, but this is as far as I can push it before this gets shipped.

On to new stuff, well, newer. I did this image last semester. It was 8 x 6 inches. At the urging of both April and last semester's advisor Oscar Palacio, I am doing this one again but bigger. It's 24 x 20 or so.

This is the start of my last bird flocking painting. Wanted to try one more. It's large and I wanted it all grey. Which leads into my last one below.

This originally started as the under painting for a bamboo forest, but I'm very excited about it. I'm also researching Gerhard Richter. The grey and the fuzzy made me think I was channeling Richter so I'm going to go back into this and make it more like one of his.