Cobalt: Day 17

Finished the project started from yesterday. That is all we did today, take a look at the process!

The images are a little bit blurry, sorry!

Tomorrow begins a new project!

Cobalt: Day 4

DAY 4: Short Post as our activities ran quite late and it's hot and I'm tired. But here's what we've got. This morning was spend doing an even larger transfer in groups. Ours was this lovely art nouveau woman, which I was quite excited about, as it is one of my favorite styles. Here was the reference image...



I can't figure out how to turn it presently, and as I mentioned, I'm tired, so it's not of importance.

Here are some pictures of what we came up with after about an hour or so of working. Not finished, obviously, and now forever gone.




I was responsible for the middle section.

Then we worked with the colors we matched yesterday to do some base coats.
One a gradient and the other a... skonche or something ridiculous like that..... I don't remember, shows how much I'm learning, and that I'm tired. I'll let you know tomorrow.



We also played around with sprayer, which I have never done, but primarily learned to fix them, as I hear they clog often.

Tonight finished with an AMAZING English dinner of toad in a (the?) hole, mash, and veggies followed with a rhubarb cobbler with ice cream. We finished our show and tell pictures tonight, taking 2 hours, so this is why I am so tired, and slightly typing grumpy.

More tomorrow, and a hopefully better mood!

Painting Final: Grace

This painting was my final project in my figure painting class. It's a lifesize portrait of my friend Grace. Proportions on the left arm are too wide, but it was an educational exercise, so I'm moving on for now. Oil on Canvas.

Figure Painting

These are the paintings from my figure painting class this past semester. They go from oldest to newest, shortest to longest, and smallest to largest from Top to Bottom respectfully. All are oil on board, canvas, or linen.

Tempra Painting

These pieces are from a class on Tempera Painting that I took in Italy. The process we learned was the same one practiced by icon painters of the late middle ages: mixing raw pigment with egg yolk. We made our own grounds by covering wood boards with linen soaked in rabbit skin glue. Once that dried, we gesso-ed them with a mixture of chalk and glue. It was so interesting to work with such natural materials, especially since our previous class was with toxic, toxic oil paints.

Our professor was an ex-nun who made foot pilgrimages from Switzerland to Jerusalem. She spoke only a little bit of English, but so much of the class was showing us the technique of making and using the medium that it hardly mattered. The topic for a lot of our work was meditation on Genesis and the creation of the world. But our first two projects (one of which is shown above) was copying work, or composing copied images, as was done with icon painting. Our last project (top image) was to portray our "garden of Eden" or where we meet with God. It was quite interesting to work in a class that was worship based instead of serving whatever our personal agendas are for our art.

Mary, Mary

This piece is Oil on Board. Inspired by Signorelli's Last Judgement Frescos. Final Project for my painting class in Italy.

Self Portrait

I don't love this or think it's particularly well done, but it's okay for something I hadn't done before and was definitely a learning experience. I think my favorite parts are everything except the face, haha. Done in Oil on Wood in Italy.

Beach Hat

A nice little something to hopefully brighten up a dreary february.
Here is a close up of the detail on the shells.
I'm not very inspired here at school currently. Which is sad.
I don't know if it's just that I'm so busy with school or that I hate February, but something is off and ruining my game. So this painting cheers me up a bit because it is my favorite piece from Italy. With shells and a cork from Cinque Terra and Venice in a sunny room in November, when life was sweller than swell.

Oil on paper.

Fish Scupture Garden

Quick painting sketch, oil on paper, for one of my classes. Limited pallet that did not include blue.

Pallet Knife Interpretation of Master Works

During my study abroad in Orvieto, Italy, we were near a famous fresco cycle by Signorelli. For one of our painting assignments we had to do interpretations of the frescos with pallet knives. The bottom one was my first and the top was my second. The bottom from The Preaching of the Anti-Christ, the top from The Punishment of the Damned. Done with oil on paper.

Monotone Exterior

Oil on paper. Monotone.

Small Self Portait Compositional Paintings

A few little paintings done in Italy, loosely self portrait, limited pallet. Composition exercise. Oil on paper.