Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Intermediate Homework 9/26/18 Letting the illusion go

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Many of the painters I know see their work evolving from the realistic toward the non-representational. Moving to abstraction involves a ...

Beginning Watercolor 1/30/19 Monochrome Value Study

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Please read this  slowly  before you start painting. In the image above, which is darker, the door of the shack or the shadow on the ...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Intermediate Watercolor Homework 9/20/18 Simplify, Exaggerate, Invent

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It is possible to hold on to the essence in a scene by letting go of some of the optional information. Often subtle details can be simplifi...

Beginning Watercolor Homework 9/20/18 Clouds and Edges

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A good first step here would be to make a list of the wetness problems that showed themselves in class yesterday. This works best when you a...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Intermediate Watercolor Homework 9/13/18 Staying Abstract to Simplify the Translation

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 As realist painters we are often attracted to images and scenes that seem far too complicated to translate into watercolor. We look at all ...

Beginning Watercolor Homework 9/13 Separating Shapes

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The illusion of space in a realist painting is achieved by manipulating a combination of just a few variables. Value, color, wetness and com...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Homework, what homework?

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The model sessions were intense, as always. Thank you all for rising to the occasion. The homework this week is up to you. What aspect of y...