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This is what I worked on over the break - it just wasn’t finished!

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My de heem reclined figure :) and now I’m excited to clear my palette for spring term

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Getting excited to play w/yellow & violets with all of you. 

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Getting excited to play w/yellow & violets with all of you. 

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Sorry Coco, it’s Sunday but I’m here for escape .

I’m not sure I’ll keep painting it, but I used the color sets from last rock studies, and used template from the last collage.

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It’s a study for earlier spring term or later winter term. ph Green, Marz red, Marz yellow

I pretty like the right top colors.

I had some crazy days these days. My husband got fevers and he has still sick. We’re going around to have many tour for Coco’s daycare, many information and documents, but we did not find a good option yet. 🤯😵‍💫

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Revisiting this little darling in hopes of breathing more energy and movement into it. Is this a semi colon or a period? Not sure but I'm enjoying it.

This term, I've been excited that the majority of my paintings are from life. An energy of color, form and chunky, intuitive paint applications has started happening. The Master study set me free to dramatically manipulate my paintings to create continuity and stronger geometry. That license is a game changer for me--to not be a slave to the reference.

Growing Edge

1. I'm thrilled to continue painting from life and memory, with photos as a safety net.

2. I'm longing (and scared) to do gouache collage and gridded abstracts. I want to develop a playful, improvisational language combining the graphic and illusionistic.

3. Make sexier surfaces by playing with wax and scraping.

4. I've been dwelling on Emily Carr who painted ordinary things with such intensity. I want to hold onto the original flash of perception throughout the painting and strengthen it. I notice myself overthinking, getting lost in the particulars, and doubting that original vision but when I trust it, it's good.

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After Georgetown Art attack

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Thankfully I joined the liferoom . Pallet knife, linseed oil, cad orange Ultramarine blue ( but accidentally I brought cad red light)

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Quinacridone red and chromium oxide green :)

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Weird and wild collage

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I’m discovering I can make washes with watercolor pens, so I’ve been trying that out on this de heem study.

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Where I finally landed with my DeHeem oil painting. 22”x30” painted primarily from my satellite collage. She was slow, methodical, sometimes only one color shape at a time. She brought me back to myself again and again. 

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Reflected on my journey with this subject

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Reflected on my journey with this subject

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Wow,

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Here’s where this deheem has landed today! Not done yet but getting there.

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What developments in your practice are you most excited about?

- Growing sensitivity and vocabulary around color, slowly but surly.

- Taking time with a painting and the painting process in general.

- Conviction in the importance of painting in my life - it's instrumental in my way of being beyond the action itself.
Where are you headed next in your work/ what are you longing for?

- Shape and touch

- Balance my artistic expression and homework exercises

- Let go, and find what I truly want to say again

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Here’s my current iteration/second pass on the color study

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This is where I am now. My son is visiting on way to new job, so on Friday (when he leaves) Saturday and Sunday I plan to do this one and perhaps another one at the same time Kimberly Trowbridge/

'EXPANSION'

Developments in Practice What Excited About - Where headed next and what am I longing for?

Going bigger getting looser and enjoying more play in my work. This is where I need to be! Would like to do some landscapes also and have been mulling over this for some time.

Need to paint in a series have a number of paintings going at the same time - as I find once I have done a subject like the one below I don’t want to return to it.

I also need some structure/discipline in my life which includes my painting practice. I just seem to get up in the AM and go where the wind blows.

Need to step out of my comfort zone and take some risks with my art. Explore different ways of using oils (without solvents) and perhaps doing oils and multimedia - not sure how this looks at this stage - but will just DO IT and see where it leads.

I am envisioning a place/studio where I can go to paint in solitude as too many distractions in my little room in my little house (which I love) to get into the flow and just paint!

COLLAGE which I have been avoiding!

Am learning so much from everyone else in this group and look forward to our last term together.

Nighty night!!!

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This is the latest version Kimberly Trowbridge

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In case I cannot exist or speak, these are answers of the question

1. What developments in your practice are you most excited about?

- Colors!

After looking back my works, the rock study is the most learned and important exercise for me. It expanded my imagination so much. I might have not understood the importance last year.

2. Where are you headed next in your work/ what are you longing for?

- I love my De Heem collages (both composition and detail ) because of the process. I glued many layers with questions. I needed to watch lectures and slides again and again.

I couldn’t join conversations so much, not only because Coco but also my English skills, but everything I heard gave me reflections and hints of development.

I’m so excited about next theme - painting from life. I don’t think I have an energy to paint whole things, interiors or stuff with using MCA brain.

I’m thinking to stick to collage/paint figures like Paula doing. Because these are very thoughtful and exciting, AND Baby glows up so fast…!

I’d like to keep this precious memory in my sketch and want to think about colors thoughtfully as I could in the De Heem projects.

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Where this version has landed before class tomorrow! Still bits and bobs I’ll probably continue to tweak, but what a journey this lil study has taken me on.

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I decided to stick with the palette knife for the rest of the painting - which was difficult. I had intended to go in and clean stuff up, but at this point the surface is so regularly bumpy and thic that any soft marks would call too much attention.

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1. Bones of structure: I want to keep researching for this piece about figure shapes and their scene.

2. Cornucopia mosaic: sap green, Marz red, Indian yellow. It’s stopped in the first pass

3. Personal work: same pallet with below. Cold wax, pallet knives without brushes after 2nd pass

4. Cornucopia set up: I love seeing this in the corner of the room

5. Liferoom

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1. rock study : They are my favorite. I prefer the left two. I was afraid to use the colors for figures, but maybe I can try like Christen’s work.

2. De Heem collage -composition : cold light, warm shadow. Green/Red + Blue, Yellow (Full pallet) by Acrylic gouache

3. De Heem collage -details: cool light, warm shadow. I aimed more closer values, inner long green/red pallet.

4. De Heem mosaic

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I visited Georgetown Equinox with my family and saw the alumni’s work. It was a little bit painful to hear from my husband that, “I don’t really like your current work, but I love this painter’s work so much!” Okay. I know… I believe I can do better as part of this team!

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Finally got myself out to some local life room.. I always forget how wonderfully flow-state it is! I want to set an intention for next term to work from life more often. it is so challenging and so nutritive.

This was my first time ever bringing paint supplies (acrylic gouache) to figure drawing, and I wasn’t able to brave using it until the very last pose, which was the tough laying down one on the first slide.

Addicting! Can’t wait to do it again!

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Playing around with this little weirdo

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Haven't done sumi painting in a long time, so decided to give it a go with leftover oil paint. Although, this painting cannot look more different than the still life one.

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Made the colors better, but couldn't fully resolve the surface and edge quality in this particular piece: 1# previous layers already formed hard edges, 2# I've fulfilled my learning goals with this exercise piece and need to move on. I'll carry the learnings to future work!

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cad red medium + phthalo green + cad yellow light + a lil bit of phthalo blue

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Have been traveling this past week and it was nice to finally return to work on this version! It felt like sinking into a warm bath getting to introduce yellow into that cantaloupe/gourd slice after only using red/green in all of these studies. 😌

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van aelst_oil_cad red _phthalo green_cad yellow satellie_01

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A little palate cleanser after all those outer rung colors! Indian Red, Black, White and a warm neutral from my mystery pile.

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Little liferooms, gouache (left) and crayons (right) on a toned gray Bristol-like paper

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Friday liferoom

When in doubt, throw in some lavendar

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Another angle of my cornucopia to keep me tapped in while I’m in the process of moving. Kate’s work and talk on her process really resonated with me. Looking back at my photos, I saw I had taken a photo of my still life with my face reflected in the mirror, so of course had to draw that after seeing her work!

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Well this turned into an unfinished hot mess and I don’t want to show it to anybody. I’m sharing it anyway because the experience and process contains something that might be worth remembering later.

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Changed and a little bit forced on the orange

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Finally finished this sucker before the term ends! I really enjoyed this weirdo process, and I’m feeling excited to continue collaging with satellited colors. Sounds so intimidating right now! Haha

I’ve been feeling pretty exhausted from life stuff these last few weeks, but super looking forward to next term. I’m hoping that my spring schedule will allow me to be a lot more present with my own work, which I’m craving desperately. Anyway, that’s all, and I wanna be a painter so bad.

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Starting to plop in some saturates

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1. I took a cue from Kimberly, and doused my skull painting in magenta to wake it up!

2. I repainted the background of the bird painting with wax.

3. Digital, pixelated version of same painting.

4. "Frosty Morning," thinking about how to activate the edges of the rectangle.

5. "Shed with Crow," playing with a deadpan style. How to paint the pastoral landscape where I live without making sentimental crap?

6. Work in progress - plein air maple

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Karen, here's a closeup of the black coat. The texture was made with a lot of solvent and a tiny bit of black oil paint but one could do something similar with a wash of acrylic, let it dry, then go on top with oils. Also, I've been meaning to get you the name of the painting medium that Zoey Frank turned me on to: it's Windsor Newton Painting Medium. I've heard it is a mix of OMS and stand oil but I've never succeeded in getting the same consistency.

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Edit: ‘On Marsh Island’ is set in a flat landscape where what doesn’t happen is as important as what does happen.

Reading Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett. Dug into my photos of a visit to her house last Fall and found this little owl monster. It’s one of her ink wells.

It attached to my subconscious. I’ve been taking photos of pareidolia moments for years. Keeping a file.

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How complicated…! I put the saturated green as warm shadow of pale objects. Also neutral pink as warm shadow of yellow.i I added my color chart in the second picture. I would like to ask it work and believable

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This is as far as I got - I have never made a painting this way and I kinda want to lock myself in a room for a week and do 5 more just to understand more.

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Starting to explore a first pass of color over the monotone version

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Puzzle piecing in some deconstructed darks :)

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After our chat about Courtney’s collage and the strong & thin marker paper, I remembered I had these inks and Yasutomo sketch paper I’d wanted to use to collage my still life over winter break. So I finally played with these. In love! Today they are dry and ready.

Last night, I fell asleep after reading about the layers of material in Juan Gris’ multimedia collages. He lasagna layered those things. And made gridded under drawings. thanks to Kimberly for expanding my 🧠💙👁️.

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Trying to get all the paint on before the 12th when I have to travel

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Here it is, friends. Sharing some closeups of my favorite parts, and my recent life study. Feeling exhausted and relieved and exhausted! Some possible titles: The Magical Art of Not Cleaning Up, The Living Room, Under Construction. It's been a journey for me. Thanks for coming along!

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She still needs a little tweaking, but I'm enjoying her again.

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Aelst Again - more harmonic and bigger and on canvas

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Aelst Again - more harmonic and bigger and on canvas

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Trying a bigger Aelst using some of the learnings from past paintings. The canvas is 20x24. Oh also trying to keep it fresh by painting it upside down

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Getting started on a big deheem and just making a little map, channeling my sharpie over xerox. Really feeling this reclined figure emerging. Pretty intimidated to be working this big! The paper is 22in by 30in

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Playing the shapes and colors in oil and cold wax here. Inspired by the collage but am not working directly from the collage. this still needs some work, but I need to leave the studio for the day so it will have to wait.

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Very abstract - shapes and colors based on de Heem still life

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Very abstract - shapes and colors based on de Heem still life

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I really wanted to make this. Feels like me. I did it on a panel using Matte medium as glue - and my paper was very wrinkly. Probably need to improve my methodology. My studio flooded this past weekend and I’ve been a bit out of sorts. I enjoyed making this and don’t know if it is totally weird or what. Lol.

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How De Heem used shadows reminds me carving clay. Comparing to the image without grey paper, grey paper gives me image shapes, size and position… They are just triangle, rectangle, and line.

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Open studio on Sunday

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Another version. I’m thinking it could be interesting to divide the painting into different color or physicality zones through the vertical split

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struggles! (updated: scraped down, slightly less gross but still...)

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struggles! (updated: scraped down, slightly less gross but still...)

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Mars red, phthalo green, indian yellow, with guest colors of ultramarine blue and dioxazine purple.

Really wrestled with mars in a dark setting (so dead after dying...) But feeling like I've fullfilled the learning goals here - a scene with two different light sources and various spatial depth.

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Life has been a lot recently but I always feel so much better when I return to painting. Trying out Kimberly’s suggestion for a horizontal orientation, I like it! Also trying the process for starting with Turkey Umber then a bit of glazing next, then opaque paint.

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Thinking about what I want to paint again. Painting with cold wax by Gamblin and only using pallet knives after the third pass.

From rock study, I love more neutral colors and darker worlds. So I changed the floor a little bit darker.

From figure collage with KT, I love to see the light pass his on the surface. Also I enjoy figure ground relationships, and how light/shadow makes shapes.

De Heem also tells me how I love the figure ground desolation even though it doesn’t show the perfect objects

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I’ve been working on a lil something for a friend’s birthday and recovering from being sick. Working in acryla gouache with some wet on wet - it’s tricky and I’m excited to come back to oil. My lettering is awful, but I can work on that in another iteration.

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Whew, the process on this one was very informative— lots of negotiating to try and keep the overall imagine balanced. I had to simplify and glue over multiple places that felt too busy, something I would not have had the heart to do without encouragement! Still, there are some places that could be stripped down more.. but I like where this one has landed at the moment.

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Friday liferoom collage

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Getting warmer! Felt good to add a ton of Indian yellow, warm up the background, and then create my own black to slice up the composition.

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Another variant - top right corner warmer and darker value. 

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Another variant - top right corner warmer and darker value. 

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Playing with figure/ground dissolution into light. Also, trompe l'oeil conversation between flatness and depth. Putting the skull on this green paper produced wildly unexpected colors in the skull! The conversation about fear of dying has been so helpful to me. I realized I was afraid of running out of time to paint! Facing my mortality has made me less anxious, and more joyful about living.

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Back to De Heem a little bit…

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A little bit of Procreate and I am intrigued.

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Updates! I love cold wax!

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Pardon the messy scraping. I waited too long to scrape. 

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This was really really interesting! It’s a strange piece because the light is so warm and the shadows are warm because of all the reflected warmth, so it’s a bit of a riddle to figure out how to get that to read. I’ve mostly settled on warming everything in the light up a lot with indian yellow and then either grabbing from my original mixes (generally the warm end) or mixing a shadow color that’s warmed up a little less with the same yellow. I’m not sure how I like it yet. I’d want to scrape it down and try to simplify some areas (like the jug and the transparent glass), and tidy up the background and the shadows on the table… and some other things too. But so far, so fun!

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Christina’s experiments inspired me to give this a try.

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16” x 20” Canvas- NaptholRed/QuinMag + TerreVerde/Sap Green + Indian Yellow

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Ended up painting till midnight as life got in the way yesterday! Few things niggling but will leave for now and work on something else for a while and touch up later. Liked the larger surface. Did end up moving towards more representational but had fun doing this one and in the end with very messy sticky paint - seems to be me x

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Please let me share the pieces from KT’s workshop. I prefer the most simple version in the black, but it was playful with the color one.

I appreciate how it connects to what we are doing here, and every image and process showed by others gave me a guidance.

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1. Coming back to my epic "still life" from last quarter... Doing a little crayon study on a printout to determine my palette.

2. Life Room Study with Pthalo Green + Hansa Yellow Mix, and Quinacridone Magenta.

3. Box Study in Cad Red Medium and Pthalo Green.

4. Construction of tree shadows for the skull painting

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3 value study - La piscina dell'agriturismo

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3 value study - La piscina dell'agriturismo

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Taking a little painting break and thinking about travel

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Really enjoying bouncing around between several different paintings/artists to look at and study from

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Starting in on studying this lovely de Heem to get some grape inspiration! Really enjoying the saturated colors and complexity of this one. It's so interesting looking at this and the Clara Peeters (and the van Aelst) next to each other. All such different takes on composition/organization, color expression/restraint, value mapping, and on and on.

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NaptholRed/Magenta + Terra Verda/SapGreen + Yellow stallite on Magenta Canvas 16” x 20"

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I have done a lot of pondering as I just wasn’t feeling it and feeling very constrained and not authentic me with my art. I was just about to chuck it in. As Oil is a relatively new medium I am trying to work out how to use it in a similar manner to Acrylics. I don’t want to use solvents or any mediums with solvents in. This is a magenta ground and a pallet knife sort of first pass with a shite load of oil paint which will probably be scraped down (sigh!!!! so expensive). On an equally shite canvas! But staying in this mode and not slipping back into a too representational mode where I don’t want to be is difficult BUT how do I not end up going there because it is already heading that way?????? Need to leave it alone for a while now.

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Started with the triangle template and have been having a good time carving out shapes. It helped take the pressure off of getting an initial surface laid down and I enjoyed seeing the overarching patterns in a different light.

One day I may grow tired of painting this master study over and over, but today is not that day 😂

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I want to play with this template forever

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Friday liferoom

Colored pencil (ochre, reddish brown, lavendar)

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Updates - just beginning to satellite but throwing an additional image into this post (swipe) as a progress shot.  Too saturated in my opinion so working on that as I go. 

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I am so sorry I have been a bit MIA. I have a lot going on personally and professionally and am glad to have worked on this some this week. I love seeing everyone’s work and it inspires me to push ahead and make time somehow! This may or may not be done and I want to go ahead with more satellite collage colors. I am very drawn to collage so this works well for me for now!

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gauche value study of the new still life in interior set

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gauche value study of the new still life in interior set

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Actually satisfying to simplify a more complex set

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Trying to understand my collaboration with paint and pallet a bit more - inspired by Kimberly’s challenge to blend the 2 styles. I also tried the yellow ground (thanks Claudia!).

I have a cold and am pretty low energy so I’m keeping things small

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Played with the ‘oil paint’ feature in procreate to flush out more values while traveling home. Worked directly over the photo. Feeling excited to be back and work with this image some more!

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This one’s been singing her siren song to me, lulling me back into her arms…

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Gave myself some time to go with more control and time. Hoping to return to color material tomorrow

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Caran d’ache emerald green + purple + white

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Did this to loosen up and it’s been inspiring me! Thinking of maybe laying the groundwork for an oil painting with these vibes as a foundation, scraping down, and then going back over with a slightly more detailed approach from previous studies