This is another oil painting I did in my Design 2 class. It's a complementary color study on an 8X10 canvas. We were supposed to aim for a bit of an abstract look with this one and to try more color sharing.
~Wings of Iron~
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
BOTTLE WITH APPLES
This is another class project. It's a still life set up by the teacher from items on hand, thus the continued theme that seems to include bottles and fruit. So, this makes my third little oil painting on 8X10 canvas. Next week, we will do a complementary color study of a subject of our own choosing. I am thinking squeaky toys, or percussion toys from my music stash, or possibly a still life with a small skull, the blue bottle from the prior painting with the oranges, and speckled egg.
This is another class project. It's a still life set up by the teacher from items on hand, thus the continued theme that seems to include bottles and fruit. So, this makes my third little oil painting on 8X10 canvas. Next week, we will do a complementary color study of a subject of our own choosing. I am thinking squeaky toys, or percussion toys from my music stash, or possibly a still life with a small skull, the blue bottle from the prior painting with the oranges, and speckled egg.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
SOLO PRACTICE RUN
Here is my second oil painting, a still life I set up of some bottles and a couple of oranges on a piece of tile. I used a light directly above it. It's painted on an 8X10 canvas board, which is really too small, so it's off the surface. I wanted to try to paint without any guidance from the teacher, just to see if I could do near as good a job. I was going out on a limb with the glass, since we have not been through that in class.
Here is my second oil painting, a still life I set up of some bottles and a couple of oranges on a piece of tile. I used a light directly above it. It's painted on an 8X10 canvas board, which is really too small, so it's off the surface. I wanted to try to paint without any guidance from the teacher, just to see if I could do near as good a job. I was going out on a limb with the glass, since we have not been through that in class.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Saturday, February 02, 2008
VALENTINE COLLAGE
I went to an estate sale in Jackson yesterday with my friend, Tammy, who likes to frequent such events. She thought I should go since there would be art stuff as an artist lived there. The house is in one of the older Jackson neighborhoods which used to be quite nice called Alta Woods. It was nostalgic for me since I'd spent some time there during my childhood, going to church, then later on I'd dated Warren, whose grandmother had a house on the boulevard there, then he'd rented an apartment there that I'd wanted after we'd broken up, as a gesture to try to get us back together; it didn't work, but I digress. It was cool to drive around the neighborhood and reminisce while waiting for Tammy to arrive.
I didn't find much in the way of art supplies other than a box of willow charcoal. I scored a couple of great old squeaky toys to use for a still life in art class though. But Tammy, lucky girl, found this great old valentine, and later that evening she and her family were over and her five year old daughter asked if I would make a collage with it for her daddy, Larry, for his birthday. Here's the collage below. I apologize for the poor photo. My camera is broken and I had to get my spouse to take a photo. He does not put the care into taking the photos that I do, but I took what I could get. Keep in mind also that it's made under pressure from a five year old who's more than a little precocious (I say that in the sweetest way).
I went to an estate sale in Jackson yesterday with my friend, Tammy, who likes to frequent such events. She thought I should go since there would be art stuff as an artist lived there. The house is in one of the older Jackson neighborhoods which used to be quite nice called Alta Woods. It was nostalgic for me since I'd spent some time there during my childhood, going to church, then later on I'd dated Warren, whose grandmother had a house on the boulevard there, then he'd rented an apartment there that I'd wanted after we'd broken up, as a gesture to try to get us back together; it didn't work, but I digress. It was cool to drive around the neighborhood and reminisce while waiting for Tammy to arrive.
I didn't find much in the way of art supplies other than a box of willow charcoal. I scored a couple of great old squeaky toys to use for a still life in art class though. But Tammy, lucky girl, found this great old valentine, and later that evening she and her family were over and her five year old daughter asked if I would make a collage with it for her daddy, Larry, for his birthday. Here's the collage below. I apologize for the poor photo. My camera is broken and I had to get my spouse to take a photo. He does not put the care into taking the photos that I do, but I took what I could get. Keep in mind also that it's made under pressure from a five year old who's more than a little precocious (I say that in the sweetest way).
Materials: Mat board, toile tissue paper, paper heart doilies, pearly craft beads, vintage valentine, heart, love and butterfly stickers, rubber stamping on torn tissue, mailbox numbers, decorative metal heart thingymabobber, crown saved from some broken ponytail holder, unidentified thingy I don't know the proper name for.
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