[image_with_animation image_url=”11565″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Her work looks to me like a modern Morandi. The composition is static, the colors are either quiet or repetitive and controlled, the objects are worn and common. The minimalist arrangements present the objects as flat abstracted forms. Notice the soft edges and surface detail. This painting is sitting right on the surface of the linen.
[gallery ids=”11573,11571,11564,11561,11575,11576″ onclick=”link_no[gallery ids=”11567,11568,11569″ onclick=”link_no I’m teaching a Still Life class on Friday nights. Drawings, paintings, and mixed media welcome. In addition to drawing and painting and media mixing, you’ll be learning how to design, build, and light your own personal style of still life scenes. We’ll talk about how to develop interest, tension, and narrative, as well as exploring what types of scenes inspire you to produce your best work.
Some of the topics I’ve got planned:
Build a Box, Compositional Height, Light & Shadow, Big vs Small
Repetition & Variety
Experimental still lifes
Deconstruction, reconstruction of the picture
Theme
Sense of time
Narrative
Challenges and bragging rights
Thinking about joining this class? Don’t delay, we start this week! Click here to learn more.
I have two gap scholarships to give away. Interested? Click here.
I happened upon this glorious Instagram post, in which Alex Kanevsky compliments a “beautifully painted boob.” The most beautifully painted boob in the world belonged to the Benefit Supervisor sleeping on an armchair. In itself it might not conform to the current standards of boob beauty, if they even exist, but the way it is …
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Each participant draws or collages an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next player for their contribution. This is the first week in a …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9700″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place. Today is the second of a series of Topophilia Creative Exercises, this …
Thanks to Jennifer Small for sending this in response to yesterday’s post about Degas’ failed historical paintings. This one was painted some time between 1857 and 1862 (dates differ), which was around the same time as he was working on the other historical paintings. Paintings and dates: The Daughter of Jephtha 1860 The Daughter of Jephtha study 1860 Young …
Jude Rae, Contemporary Still Life
[image_with_animation image_url=”11565″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Her work looks to me like a modern Morandi. The composition is static, the colors are either quiet or repetitive and controlled, the objects are worn and common. The minimalist arrangements present the objects as flat abstracted forms. Notice the soft edges and surface detail. This painting is sitting right on the surface of the linen.
Some of the topics I’ve got planned:
Thinking about joining this class? Don’t delay, we start this week! Click here to learn more.
I have two gap scholarships to give away. Interested? Click here.
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