Category: Painting
Punalu’u Pond Lilies
Here is the second painting in the Ka’u series. I don’t know how much further this is going to go, I’m finding that I am not crazy about landscape painting, as much as I think I love it. It’s too easy for me to get lost in the details. This is a pond that is…
Makanau – A Keystone Painting
As part of this painting course, Rose had us work on a Keystone painting. This was the final painting of the class. The concept behind this is that it is the pivotal center point of a cluster of paintings that work together as a cohesive whole. There are many ways in which this can work,…
Week 12 – Fantasy Painting
Time Machine – 2019 I had a talk with my teacher. We’re all really frustrated that we are behind with all the work we need to complete for class. She told us that she is doing this intentionally so that we start to paint faster. The only way to do that is to just do…
Weeks 10 – 12 Portraits Week 2
Time Machine – 2019 In the interest of transparency, I didn’t want to post this. I wasn’t happy with how my portrait was turning out! Doesn’t matter, it is part of the process and I want you to see the good with the bad! Working on portraits was a continuation of us working on our…
Advanced Painting Atelier Week 10 & 11 Split-Complimentary Color Figure Painting
“Two Weeks.” I have visions of the huge and tall person in the movie Total Recall when the head explodes while going through customs. I decided to do a portrait, of course, I wanted to challenge myself because I thought I needed the practice. Finishing it in two weeks was a joke! For what it…
Advanced Painting Atelier Weeks 8 & 9 Trompe l’Oeil
This time, we had two weeks to complete a painting. Rose wanted us to do a Trompe l’Oeil, which is a painting that gives the illusion of reality, such as a painting of a window onto a lush tropical landscape that is painted directly on a wall. In this case, I painted a tree frog…
Advanced Painting Atelier Weeks 5 – 7 Master Copy
The next thing we had to do for our Advanced painting class was to do a copy of a Master Painting. I chose Miranda from “The Tempest” painted by John William Waterhouse. I chose this painting because I thought I needed to practice putting my subjects firmly in a background. Most of my paintings are…
Advanced Painting Atelier Week 3 – 4
Weeks 3 and 4 were all about Analogous, value-based still-life painting. We also discussed other compositional options such as the Fibonacci sequence and deciding whether the subject requires a low, mid, or high-key composition. Here was my analogous painting. Almost all of the colors of the garlic fall in the yellow to light grey range.…
Advanced Painting Atelier – Week 1 -2
I was so excited for this class to begin, in fact, I think I was jumping up and down in my seat. The whole atelier experience has been a huge roller coaster for me by expanding my abilities and making me confront many of my own limitations. This class hasn’t been just about art for…
