Category: Painting
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Learning, Thinking, and Feeling
When you first start riding a horse, there are a million things to learn and remember. First, you have to balance and sit up, then think about how your legs are cueing your horse. Then you must make sure that your hands guide and communicate rather than pull. Then, you move off at a walk,…
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Animal Month
Guided by Emily Hirtle, at the Main Line Art Center I started to think about how I wanted to represent different animals with watercolor and gouache. I no longer find watercolor scary and I am motivated by representing the many animals in my life. I want to get better at drawing and painting because I…
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Copying the Masters
Copying a master painting is a very useful exercise. Here is The Favorite Horse by John Singer Sargent. First make the “linear placement” — where the shapes go on the page. Then, start to think about how Sargent did this very warm and subtle painting. This was a challenging assignment, not only because I haven’t…
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Lesson: Memory vs. Photo
I had some acrylics left over from my class so I thought I’d use them to practice what I learned in my last painting class. The messages from class: form makes a strong painting, value is important in the “reading” of the painting, and finally, a photo can be somewhat of a tyrant. It is…
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