Hello Artists! You took the artistic challenge and made work that was personal, inventive, and unique. Whether you painted from observation or imagination, your compositions and ideas gathered in the 'virtual gallery' are looking very good. Thank you for sharing your works!
IF you are ready for another painting challenge, we've got one for you:
Assuming you're working interior (could be exterior in this nice weather) paint your chosen subject with this in mind: Decide what part of your painting you want the focus on. How will you treat that part of the painting (subject)—while putting less focus on the rest of your painting? Maybe by using stronger values, darker lines, color differences.... Think opposites: Softer/harder, cooler/warmer, larger/smaller, foreground/background...the list goes on. How you go about this will be the artistic challenge. These are only art prompts, if you've got something entirely different you'd like to create and share, we look forward to posting and viewing. Have FUN!
Sarah Tanzer's tree painting is atmospheric and poetic... Says she:
"I have been loving trees all my life and also painting, photographing and drawing them.
My first observational painting of a tree I did when I was 12 in the park at the Cloisters.
Janet Pedersen's watercolor painting of her husband.
"Today was a gorgeous day... but traveling with my paints is still too big a challenge for me (leg fracture plus quarantine-time) so I made my way to the back yard and Tom joined me. This being a loosely painted picture, I was going for the background being even looser while the figure more defined in the warmth of the light. When I showed Tom he remarked: "there's an old man there" to my reply: "my old man."
IF you are ready for another painting challenge, we've got one for you:
Assuming you're working interior (could be exterior in this nice weather) paint your chosen subject with this in mind: Decide what part of your painting you want the focus on. How will you treat that part of the painting (subject)—while putting less focus on the rest of your painting? Maybe by using stronger values, darker lines, color differences.... Think opposites: Softer/harder, cooler/warmer, larger/smaller, foreground/background...the list goes on. How you go about this will be the artistic challenge. These are only art prompts, if you've got something entirely different you'd like to create and share, we look forward to posting and viewing. Have FUN!
Sarah Tanzer's tree painting is atmospheric and poetic... Says she:
"I have been loving trees all my life and also painting, photographing and drawing them.
My first observational painting of a tree I did when I was 12 in the park at the Cloisters.
I remember the state of the absorption when I was painting, the feeling that I was part of the woods, the air, the space. This painting is from a photograph. I want to work more on the bottom right part."
Janet Pedersen's watercolor painting of her husband.
"Today was a gorgeous day... but traveling with my paints is still too big a challenge for me (leg fracture plus quarantine-time) so I made my way to the back yard and Tom joined me. This being a loosely painted picture, I was going for the background being even looser while the figure more defined in the warmth of the light. When I showed Tom he remarked: "there's an old man there" to my reply: "my old man."
Ricki Braunstein's illustration is lush and magical.
Virginia Naughton's beautiful watercolor 'Still-life with Cicada.'
"Shelter-in-place has really encouraged me to seek different subjects to paint. I found three separately delicate objects for this challenge. I loved that their delicacies were so different so I put them together.
"Shelter-in-place has really encouraged me to seek different subjects to paint. I found three separately delicate objects for this challenge. I loved that their delicacies were so different so I put them together.
Each object was special to me:
1) Chinese quince blossoms from a recent shelter-in-place walk.
2) A tea cup that my Grandmother, a china painter, painted.
3) The remains of a cicada which was singing in my backyard last summer.
Riki Braunstein takes us on a journey with her colorful, imaginative landscapes...very soothing on the eyes!
1) Chinese quince blossoms from a recent shelter-in-place walk.
2) A tea cup that my Grandmother, a china painter, painted.
3) The remains of a cicada which was singing in my backyard last summer.
Riki Braunstein takes us on a journey with her colorful, imaginative landscapes...very soothing on the eyes!
Ellen Campeas uses the play of warm and cool colors in this beautiful oil pastel drawing.
Sarah Tanzer's posted these two light-filled oil paintings. My eyes are enjoying the way the background and the trees work so well together.
Janet Filemyr posted a lovely watercolor. She says, "My watercolor mentor, Joan Iaconetti, provided a painting that I used to
jumping off into this. She composed it and I copied her style."
Each of these paintings are complex in their own way, but they pull you in because each is designed with 'focus' in mind (light and shadow, fore/back ground, nature/architecture) and this is what makes my eye linger on each of them. Much to enjoy in this weeks work. Bravo!
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