Not every student work is a keepsake, but it’s a hard drop to have your perfectly imperfect artworks become garbage. Instead of piling up or going to a landfill, some artists have the very clever idea to re-use their work in collages. They get all of the enjoyment and benefit of creative play, doubled. I use collage in my beginning and intermediate painting classes to develop composition skills. It’s a great medium for concentrating on shapes and colors. And who knows? The piece you make could be your next masterpiece.
Integrated Collage Design Workshop March 3/10
OMG! Guess what?!? We have a collage workshop coming up in 2 weeks! Let those colors feed your creativity once again. Bring your drawings and paintings to the workshop and see what they do next.
Today is the darkest day of the year, made extra dark this year by the pandemic. The good news is that from this day on, the days get brighter. I’ll hold my breath on the other. Today’s post has a collection of low light and nocturne paintings by Sangram Majumdar, one of my favorite painters. …
Excerpt from Mitchell Albala’s Book: Simplification and Massing The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman At a recent workshop, several students pointed to a cottonwood tree that was gently swaying in the breeze. “How are we going to paint all those leaves?” they asked. …
You may have heard about Japonisme – the influence Japanese art had on Western art in the 19th century, after Japanese ports reopened in 1854, having been closed to the West for over 200 years. I posted about 8 Great Artists Inspired by Japanese Art a while back. Artists like Van Gogh, Degas, and Toulouse Lautrec …
This article by Michael Agresta was published in the Texas Observer in 2016. The lynchings have brought it to us again. San Antonio painter Vincent Valdez unveils a monumental work on the persistence of white supremacy in America. A casual art viewer, wandering into the David Shelton Gallery in Houston from this month and encountering …
What to do with your old paintings
Not every student work is a keepsake, but it’s a hard drop to have your perfectly imperfect artworks become garbage. Instead of piling up or going to a landfill, some artists have the very clever idea to re-use their work in collages. They get all of the enjoyment and benefit of creative play, doubled. I use collage in my beginning and intermediate painting classes to develop composition skills. It’s a great medium for concentrating on shapes and colors. And who knows? The piece you make could be your next masterpiece.
Integrated Collage Design Workshop March 3/10
OMG! Guess what?!? We have a collage workshop coming up in 2 weeks! Let those colors feed your creativity once again. Bring your drawings and paintings to the workshop and see what they do next.
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Today is the darkest day of the year, made extra dark this year by the pandemic. The good news is that from this day on, the days get brighter. I’ll hold my breath on the other. Today’s post has a collection of low light and nocturne paintings by Sangram Majumdar, one of my favorite painters. …
Mitchell Albala: Simplification and Massing
Excerpt from Mitchell Albala’s Book: Simplification and Massing The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman At a recent workshop, several students pointed to a cottonwood tree that was gently swaying in the breeze. “How are we going to paint all those leaves?” they asked. …
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You may have heard about Japonisme – the influence Japanese art had on Western art in the 19th century, after Japanese ports reopened in 1854, having been closed to the West for over 200 years. I posted about 8 Great Artists Inspired by Japanese Art a while back. Artists like Van Gogh, Degas, and Toulouse Lautrec …
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This article by Michael Agresta was published in the Texas Observer in 2016. The lynchings have brought it to us again. San Antonio painter Vincent Valdez unveils a monumental work on the persistence of white supremacy in America. A casual art viewer, wandering into the David Shelton Gallery in Houston from this month and encountering …