Week 3 Class and Assignments

This week we did 4 timed paintings of the same thing but different angle or change of lighting. It was the usual Sweetie tangerine thing. Ten minutes for each, from start to finish (except we were allowed to draw the straight lines first.

It's been a week since I looked at them and they aren't as bad as I imagined. Partly they look better photographed. They still don't look like tangerines, maybe the one at the bottom right, and they look like tomatoes to me.

I"ll be gone this week in Arizona and will bring my paints with me.

Homework for this week:

1) 1 6x6 timed painting, 20 minutes- take a photo at 20 min if you MUST continue painting! (the cow in the snow)
2) one Value Painting- a simpler composition in which you are consciously THINKING about VALUE the entire time- as in "which area is darker? Which is lighter?"- and say these out loud to yourself if needed!
3) one "One-Stroke-Per-Color" painting, any subject (rock pile #2)
4) more snow landscapes! (the cow in the snow sculpture)
5) try bigger paintings
6) ONE "bigger than life" painting, of something like our oranges painted three times their size!  can be on paper or cardboard- I want you to exercise your BIGGER muscles! (the big orange)
7) and ONE painting with a VALUE STUDY in pencil created BEFORE you do the painting.  This can be a winter landscape if you're grooving on those, or a still life on your table. Make sure to include strong light so you have shadows and value!!!
8) this one is up to you! Paint what you LOVE!

First I started with a rock. Looks sort of okay but I continued on and wrecked it. Color and shadows were wrong but I liked the purples and blues. Texture was wrong too. Hmmm, I guess it's all wrong! Not even showing it.

Then went on to do some rock piles which also don't look much like their originals, mainly in color.

Then started another rock pile. Painted over it at least twice because I couldn't get a good tan and brown. The real rocks don't look as blue and purple as this.

Here is the original.

Another damn tangerine only bigger than normal. Painted on 10x10 size. Painted over the background twice. I had it on a wrinkled white linen thing but couldn't quite get the wrinkles right.

Another snow painting. This is one of the cow sculptures.