I’ve been painting (yippee!), so there was a pause in the V. Notes for a few days, but I didn’t want another day to go by without putting another artist in your inbox. Here he is: Hurvin Anderson. Anderson is a British-Jamaican artist, and another one of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. You may have noticed that most of San Millan’s favorite paintings vibrate with light as if they were power generators? This artist is no exception. His informal daily scenes have rich saturated color with vibrant energy, contrasted by fastidious linear mathematical elements of perspective and patterning. The painting above is from a series he did on barbershops. Below is a photograph reference. I get so much from seeing a painter’s reference! I am so fascinated to see how artists put things together.
Hurvin Anderson’s original photograph of Peter Brown’s attic. Source: Phillips
“‘At first it was the physical space itself that intrigued me, the attic seemed to have a presence; it seemed like somewhere that had been forgotten, some sort of secret meeting hall. I realized that there was something about the figure in the chair and the whole nature of that intimate but shared space that was compelling and that I wanted to paint.’ He retrospectively studied his photographs of the room, which he amalgamated from multiple memories of the space and imagination, to construct this dynamic, varied series.” – Phillips
Look at all of those straight lines! Looks like Anderson applied some stamped lines of paint, and some simple stencils. A piece of paper isn’t fancy, but it does make an effective stencil for a clean line in a paintingMore straight lines!Hurvin Anderson, Country Club Chicken Wire, 2008Hurvin Anderson, Country Club Chicken Wire. (Detail of line work)You can see Anderson is playing with depth and color by juxtaposing opaque & transparent paint, and implementing what Carlos San Millan calls “mechanical glazes” in which the artist applies a layer of wet paint over a dry area of color, then scrapes the wet paint so the previous color shows through. These mechanical glazes put colors next to each other rather than blending them together, which causes the colors vibrate, especially when they’re complementary or near-complementary colors. Hurvin Anderson
Drawing & Painting the Effects of Light
There are a few spots left in my Thursday class, in which we delve into the effects of light in paintings and drawings. This is a class series sparked after Carlos San Millan shared so much information about the effects of light in paintings that nearly everyone who attended immediately requested a class series, so their hands could catch up with the information they’d received. This is that class.
30 Day SAL Challenge: January 1-30
SAL Challenge
Get the new year started off with a creative boost: the 30-Day creative SALChallenge starts in January. You might choose to complete all thirty creative challenges, or do one with a friend on the weekend. Stay tuned to V. Notes for the posts. We start January 1!
I was introduced to Stuart Shils by Mitchel Albala’s landscape painter group. Every time we were grappling with how to handle the boundary where one color meets another – the edge – the group would inevitably mention Shils, then get very quiet, as if for a moment of reverence. He does have some very lovely edges. Notice …
I tell you Leaguers, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture, but someone’s gotta do it. [image_with_animation image_url=”6039″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Trouble reading the tiny text? Here’s the script: Calvin – “How unoriginal! How jejune! Stupid kid. If you don’t have anything to say, just keep quiet! Well, this is certainly shocking! Face …
The League is proud to announce our official Artist-Not-In-Residence: Patty Haller. She will be using the front studio space to paint a 12′ panel for her January solo show at Smith & Vallee Gallery. As our official Artist-Not-In-Residence, Haller will share her process with League students and V-Notes readers. More to come. THIS JUST IN: Patty moved in the panels last Friday night …
Hurvin Anderson
I’ve been painting (yippee!), so there was a pause in the V. Notes for a few days, but I didn’t want another day to go by without putting another artist in your inbox. Here he is: Hurvin Anderson. Anderson is a British-Jamaican artist, and another one of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. You may have noticed that most of San Millan’s favorite paintings vibrate with light as if they were power generators? This artist is no exception. His informal daily scenes have rich saturated color with vibrant energy, contrasted by fastidious linear mathematical elements of perspective and patterning. The painting above is from a series he did on barbershops. Below is a photograph reference. I get so much from seeing a painter’s reference! I am so fascinated to see how artists put things together.
“‘At first it was the physical space itself that intrigued me, the attic seemed to have a presence; it seemed like somewhere that had been forgotten, some sort of secret meeting hall. I realized that there was something about the figure in the chair and the whole nature of that intimate but shared space that was compelling and that I wanted to paint.’ He retrospectively studied his photographs of the room, which he amalgamated from multiple memories of the space and imagination, to construct this dynamic, varied series.” – Phillips
Drawing & Painting the Effects of Light
There are a few spots left in my Thursday class, in which we delve into the effects of light in paintings and drawings. This is a class series sparked after Carlos San Millan shared so much information about the effects of light in paintings that nearly everyone who attended immediately requested a class series, so their hands could catch up with the information they’d received. This is that class.
SAL Challenge
Get the new year started off with a creative boost: the 30-Day creative SALChallenge starts in January. You might choose to complete all thirty creative challenges, or do one with a friend on the weekend. Stay tuned to V. Notes for the posts. We start January 1!
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