Hi again,

This little piece I’m working on outside of art class. It’s heavily inspired by a print I found at a garage sale. I’m using it to teach myself how to paint faces. I call this one Little Bun. I still have more work to do on the flowers, but I am posting my progress so far…

I discovered the artists name of the original work - called Mederios, an artist from the 1960’s

Here is the original below

 The second day of this study required some reading about an American artist named Pat Steir (1938 -   ), who painted with the purpose for transformation, and finding out where she fit into history in art. The examples of Pat’s work showed her interest in 17th century painting equal to the modern cubist development. My task was to paint on a 12 X 36 canvas or matte board divided into three even squares, transitioning from small –> large, detail –> closeup,  several items –> one close up, or three pieces styled to be one piece. We also had to ask, “what shape is it?” And design with shapes, patterns and contours. I chose the colours to remain constant (purple, yellow, red, green, white), and went from a full vase of flowers –> one close up. Not sure how I compared to the class yet, but I painted this one standing up the whole time, and really tried to loosen up, by painting with my hand extended, rather than painting up close. Results are humbly submitted above.

I went to Christine Woods blog, Chicken-Scratch again, and found another great artist  Blogthing. It said that Alfred Gockel should paint me, and I agree! Alfred baby - call me!

Who Should Paint You: Alfred Gockel

All American yet funky, you inspire an artist’s imagination And while not everyone will understand your portrait, you will! http://www.blogthings.com/whatartistshouldpaintyourportraitquiz/

Hey all (or maybe it’s just one right now!),

This first draft was about small, medium, and large squares, using 2 secondary colours and white and black. We had to experiment with shapes, and spaces, and how they go together with horizontal and vertical movements, overlapping with depth and space. We had to use 3 different brush techiques chosen from the following:

- arms length, left handed, palette knives (small flat, large flat), round small & large, and dry brush.

I chose orange and green with arms length, palette knive small, and round small. I also threw in some dry brush. Pianted in about 2 hours, it’s on 12 X 12 matte board. Here’s my results to the right.

My good friend and author Christine Wood has the best blog ever. I go there and read to be inspired, and also to see which cool links she’s got posted. This is one of her latest, and it tells you what kind of artist you are. It’s true, I LOVE surrealism and just saw the Dali exhibit a few weeks ago in London to prove it! Anyhow, here’s my results.

You Are Surrealism

Dreamy and idealistic, you’ve created a world that is all your own. It’s very likely that you’ve either dabbled in drugs or are naturally trippy. You are always trying to push beyond the boundaries of your culture and society. You believe that art, love, and freedom can change the world.  WHAT ART MOVEMENT ARE YOU?