Hey guys!!!
I just wanted to add a painting that I did while on our break between summer classes and the fall semester. I would love to hear your opinion on it! I miss being in class with all of you. I'm in the intermediate now and it is no where as cool without you guys in it. I hope everyone is doing well! Keep me posted on life!
~Ashlee
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Ashlee...
Such a fun piece...I love the expression on the face...It's like we walked in on him doing something he shouldn't be doing...The way you used your paint is a little different from your usual style...I like it!!! There seems to be a little impasto on the disc in the mouth??? The use of color is excellent…You have some nice contrast with your lights and darks…That’s the photographer in you…I really like that the whole piece is made of circles…and you have the background with horizontal paint strokes…Keep painting!!! Hope the intermediate class is going well…And I too miss our class…!!!
wow i really love this painting especially the texture of the paint like on the circle in the mouth for example. it's very interesting. what was your inspiration?
Thanks David for the feedback=]
I got the inspiration from the photo in a magazine I've had for really long time. It's from national geographic. I've always thought it was such and intresting and beautiful photo. It's been on my wall since I found it and when I though of doing my own painting, it was the first thing i thought about. It really intrests me, the way that other cultures view beauty.
Ashlee,
Hey! So glad you are painting--
And David's right, you're into the juice, pouring on the paint, trying it out--right on!
This image is hard for me to understand tho': what's in his mouth?!
Also shape...wild...traditional portrait shape...what made you choose the shape?
Also you are adding to your painting repetoire...it's great...so, now you've got the "juice" --thick paint--and also the thin paint at hand...
What do you prefer, working from the photo or from observation? Would you ever paint from your own photos, or photograph your paintings?!
hats off to you! Nah--clean brushes...a more fruitful wish.
Now, this one really makes me pay attention. It's the sphere echoing the canvas shape, the colors, the crazy incongruous image... makes me stop and look. Wish I could see it up close or in person.
I miss our class too. My intermediate just doesn't have the "wow" factor ours had.
You guys were the best class. Really amazing. And I've had good ones.
Nothing like full intensity, either--every day.
Right now I'm taking a class at the New York Studio School--drawing.
It's highly perceptual. We draw in the original Whitney Museum, underneath skylights, in an old ballroom space. The models are dancers and pose in geometric formations. We draw every day from 9 - 6 5 days a week and meet 6:30 - 9 PM for critiques. I have not slept in a long time.
So working f/t creates excellent synergy. When ambitious and delicious students such as yourselves meet it, standards for visual acuity are raised.
If you have resources and a whole lot of money, I highly recommend the course at the NY Studio School: called Drawing marathon. It's intense though: not for the fragile. Critiques can be brutal. But it is very exciting. If you want to see some of the work, I can post it. Let me know.
Meanwhile in your painting courses...ask the most incisive and demanding questions you can. Do the best work you can. Raise the bar as high as possible. Lead. Push hard. Don't pull back, compare--use the energy in class. Look at the paintings during crit. Look for similar compositions. Compare and contrast them. Do this verbally. Include others in the conversation.
This blog provides an example. David with his 15 years in, love for Cezanne and his peers here, has been a galvanizing force. You guys do the same in your classes. don't wait for someone else. You're the chosen ones.
Elisabeth...
Your words are so powerful...I miss your true passion for the Arts…I have found in my short experience with various artists… they lose the ambition and passion that you share with everyone…and the desire to help there fellow artist to achieve the success that you have…
I feel so privileged…that after our class…that you still play a major role into our artistic careers. Your input on this blog is so great. It shows that not only are you and amazing artists…but a truly great teacher. I think I speak for the whole class.
You wrangled all of us together…by a simple twist of fate…called summer classes…The energy, the passion, the love for painting…you injected that into all of us…including Sergio…but we could not have been such a cohesive group if it wasn’t for your love of the Arts and your unbelievable love for painting …Thank You.
I would love to see your work on the Blog…I think we have begun the circle…the beginnings of a group that started this summer and I hope will continue until infinte…to support all of us…as we grow as artist…So post it up…and let us see why “New York” is where it is happening!!!
Again…Thank You so much Elisabeth!!!
Hey David-
I'll post it on my own blog--this is your guys' space--I'm here as commenter and cheerleader for you painters out there--sound good?
We're on the final project--a drawing that can be as large as 48 x 140 inches...we'll see.
When art becomes meaningless, when there is no use to our looking at each others' work, then what is the point? This is the point! It gives meaning, visual form to our experience. Not every situation enables you to re-invent the world.
It is fabulous to see people painting and posting their work. Just really great. And finding their motifs and themes.
Being an artist is a life, it is more than an avocation, career, etc. It is a fierce lineage, 5,000 year plus--it is a big choice to make.
Once this class ends (Friday night--my god I need sleep) I shall head post-haste to the Met, to see (grab your stomachs, this is intense) Turner AND Morandi! In the same building! I wonder if it will blow down from the greatness. If you do not know these artists Google them immediately and then as fast as you can gather resources to see their work in person, if not now later in your life, but make it a goal. It's how I started to travel--to go see paintings...
Painting is a life.
Ashlee so help me god, you keep painting!!!
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