what the heck have I been doing????
I'm feeling discombobulated by summer, by work, and by still trying to figure out what is the media that works for me???? I definitely haven't been gardening as evidenced by the weeds among the vegetables and flowers. I have been fishing and slightly obsessed by that. And of course I still have to work at my job to pay for my hobbies. And Wet Paint keeps having some kind of special on M. Graham paints...
I'm taking my 2nd Roz Stendahl class on textures. This has been fun because there is NO right answer! There is no expectation that that what I make has to look like anything. It's like kindergarten only a bit more advanced. Roz's online classes are really good. She gives lots of feedback and the CMS/LMS that she uses is easy to use. Like all online classes, as a student, you MUST make an effort to interact on the CMS/LMS otherwise it's a flat experience.
Between fishing and trying to do something everyday, I've been using gouache. Yes, still wanting to use acrylic and I bought a new POSH palette. It's bigger and grey glass and fits into a slightly bigger Masterson box. After Carl's last class and I started to understand the color mixing across a spectrum and using 9 colors (3 of each primary and no white), I wanted to experiment with the palette knife mixing instead of the brush mixing.
Gouache is kind of between acrylic and watercolor. Check out these gouache paintings by Thomas Paquette! I checked out a book from the library of his gouaches and some are only 2"x3" and so inspiring! His paintings of the Mississippi from one end to the other is ending soon at the Dubuque Art Museum. It was at the Marine Museum of Art in Winona and of course I missed it. I'm thinking of a quick road trip to Dubuque just to see this. It's only a 4.5 hour drive. Same amount of time as going to Grand Marais -- except for me that any driving takes about 1.5-2x as long because I keep stopping to look at stuff, go to parks, read historical markers, find a geocache, eat at a weird looking drive-in, go to a cemetery, etc. etc. etc.
So that's it. Trying to cram in painting in between work and fishing and normal life tasks.
Between fishing and trying to do something everyday, I've been using gouache. Yes, still wanting to use acrylic and I bought a new POSH palette. It's bigger and grey glass and fits into a slightly bigger Masterson box. After Carl's last class and I started to understand the color mixing across a spectrum and using 9 colors (3 of each primary and no white), I wanted to experiment with the palette knife mixing instead of the brush mixing.
Gouache is kind of between acrylic and watercolor. Check out these gouache paintings by Thomas Paquette! I checked out a book from the library of his gouaches and some are only 2"x3" and so inspiring! His paintings of the Mississippi from one end to the other is ending soon at the Dubuque Art Museum. It was at the Marine Museum of Art in Winona and of course I missed it. I'm thinking of a quick road trip to Dubuque just to see this. It's only a 4.5 hour drive. Same amount of time as going to Grand Marais -- except for me that any driving takes about 1.5-2x as long because I keep stopping to look at stuff, go to parks, read historical markers, find a geocache, eat at a weird looking drive-in, go to a cemetery, etc. etc. etc.So that's it. Trying to cram in painting in between work and fishing and normal life tasks.
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