Art Update

It's been several weeks since I last posted. Keeping busy with Jane Davies' workshop and posting work to the class blog. It's quite an adventure. Confronting many demons, slaying many dragons, learning a lot and enjoying the ride. She is a great teacher and I am so looking forward to working with her in person at the end of July.

Here's the work from Lesson 3. Starting with washes of color and adding to the shapes with scribble in different materials.



Definitely out of my comfort  zone here. Not sure what to make of these but here they are. I think I'm finding that I tend to overwork things. Activity 2 definitely helped with that!
 

I used some Windor Newton inks
I have had for YEARS on the the first three.
Added conté crayon to this one

Added black and white oil pastels to this one

Black and brown India ink with conté crayon
and fine tipped marker

Added white oil pastel and black India ink to this one

Brown India ink with orange WN ink; added lines with
brown India ink using a pen nib and the dropper

India ink with white and black oil
pastel and fine tipped marker

Then we created small compositions (7" x 7") with one painted shape, a shape made from collage paper and a line. Some with painted backgrounds, some on plain paper.

Then pages and pages of thumbnails creating simple compositions with line and shape.

Then we added color to some of the one-line contour drawings we did in Lesson 2.

And finally we did a fun negative space exercise painting the shapes around the object with a brush and India ink.