Thursday, March 13, 2014

Monday night and Wednesday morning: One Step Beyond...

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The portrait studies we did in class were deliberately over-simplified. There were probably moments when you wished you could have mixed up ...

Intermediate Watercolor - The Figure: Taking off from your live studies

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All the work we did in class this week can be a good resource for poses and color ideas. With a live study as a road map, you can see how to...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Monday Night and Wednesday Morning Homework: One thing at a time

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Assess the work you did in class this week. Having made an exploratory study of one or the other of these images, there are at l...

Intermediate Watercolor Homework: The role of drawing in figurative watercolor

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Most of the time, when we work from a model, I play down the importance of drawing. If any other Gage teachers read that sentence I'm s...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Intermediate Watercolor Homework: Making Big Changes

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The best time to make big changes in a painting is before you pick up a brush. We've all heard the same advice from every book and every...

Monday night and Wednesday Morning Homework: Asking the Questions

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Copying is a powerful tool, but it can also be confusing. The work we've been doing studying and copying passages of landscape paintings...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Do you know Soutine's work?

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While we're on the subject of letting go (and when are we not?), take a look at these guys. Chaim Soutine: and Frank Au...