So I'm taking Intermediate Painting at the University of Houston this fall, and my proff is Gael Stack. I was told that if I wanted to learn, to take Gael's class. So I'm in it with several friends from Fundamentals of Painting from Spring.
Gael's first project for us was still life. We were to make 10 paintings based on one still life, but to do it ten different (assigned) ways. So I set up a still life and spent nearly every day for about 3 weeks painting small still lifes. This is acrylic on printmaking paper.
Gael really liked my Matisse postcard painting. We took a Matisse postcard she gave us and recreated the painting composition using our own source materials from the still life.
This took me an hour and a half just to figure out how to draw a scallop pattern, and then I spent a whole day painting the lines with some tape. I just laid the tape down, painted one line changing the color when I reached another scallop, then moved the tape down to the right a little and did the next line, and so on till I finished. The assignment for this one was Ground Focus, or Figure in Ground. So there is the head of the plastic dinosaur in there. The stripes come from the cloth on my still life.
This one was to do a different perspective, so I sat on the floor. I still didn't get the girl's chin perspective right but I promise I drew it right and then my brain went all OCD on me.
This was to combine a classmate's painting with my own. I zoomed in on Zoe's grid and combined it with a re-working on my grid.
Figure Focus, and Repaint Any Painting. The Figure Focus was so light, delicate, and decorative I just had to do it again with thick palette knife painting.
Hiroshige, take a Hiroshige painting and recreate it involving your source material. Mine was inspired by the plastic dinosaur, and was based on Hiroshige's festival flag that I tried really hard to copy the lettering for. I also added some decorative patterning to the flag, water, horizon, and sky.
"Paint Everything You See" Simple enough, and my least favorite.
Edge focus, I did an abstract of the plastic dinosaur. I named this Migration. :)
Detail.
Grid pattern, elements and colors taken from a mostly red and white fan.
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