tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42933548403307259092024-03-20T14:15:55.792-07:00Garage School of ArtVALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-24731412168850774532019-03-21T11:40:00.001-07:002019-03-21T11:40:50.457-07:00On April 1, 2019 I am no longer teaching at The Garage School of Art. I will, however, continue to Blog and exhibit under that title. Stay Tuned!<a href="mailto:www.valeriemccaffrey@comcast.net">www.valeriemccaffrey@comcast.net</a><br />
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VALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-75861832940801283222018-03-07T08:08:00.002-08:002018-03-07T08:08:57.640-08:00<a href="http://www.valeriemccaffrey.com/">www.valeriemccaffrey.com</a>VALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-34974288144024242512013-06-19T14:05:00.001-07:002013-06-19T14:05:34.705-07:00Marking our Nineteenth Year with Our Annual Luncheon<div style="text-align: center;">
We had planned to explore markers as the modern incarnation of "Ink" to culminate our "Year of Drawing" when I read about an article in The Boston Globe about Artist Laura Meilman and her <a href="http://sketchboston.tumblr.com/">Project T Scapes</a>. I contacted Laura and she agreed to join us on Monday, June 17th, and demonstrate her technique. She already has fifty or so T stations rendered in markers in her personal style and we were excited to see how she would tackle our own train station. We were not disappointed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the train tracks from the Beverly Farms Station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Beverly Farms Station</i> ©Laura Meilman 2013</td></tr>
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To read about Laura's experiences at The Garage School go to <a href="http://sketchboston.tumblr.com/">Laura's Tumblr Post</a>. For our part we were charmed by this exquisitely trained Artist, by her poise, and by her teaching skills. </div>
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Colored Markers, like their grandfather India and Chinese Inks, are a difficult but expressive medium. We will keep sketch books this summer using the medium with weekly reports, so we can become more skilled drawing with them.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura demonstrates her technique.</td></tr>
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As is our nineteen year tradition we ended the day by having lunch al fresco. It is also a tradition that we have a beautiful day. This year, however, we broke with tradition and everyone brought a part of the meal. We started with Gazpacho and bread, then on to Caesar Salad, Deviled Eggs, Cape Cod Chicken Salad, Asian Salad, Fruit skewers, Lemonade and Iced tea. For dessert we had Lemon Ice Box Pie, Citrus Olive Oil Cake with Whipped Cream, Chocolate mini tarts, and strawberries. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even the Peonies remained in bloom for our event!</td></tr>
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Artist <a href="http://www.behance.net/jbenotti">Joan Benotti</a> generously donated the embellished Nautical Chart<br />
she did when she demonstrated for our class for a prize drawing. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terese Melden examines the embellished Nautical Chart that was won by Ann Pulver .</td></tr>
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To see more pictures from the day, view the <a href="https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A35nhQSTNPhOA">Photo Album</a>.</div>
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Summer School begins July 8th when we will take the next step by painting on paper in any medium the Artist desires, using a specific process aimed at quickly capturing the composition. We will focus on the transparency and opacity of the various mediums, learning how to tweek them for our own devices.</div>
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Last, there are a few items in the Lost and Found. If you see anything that looks familiar, stop by and pick it up! </div>
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<b><br /><br /> Class began with work done by several students, a small sampling of which is presented here owing to the Instructor's lapse until the end of class. Mary Vetere, Linda Harvey, and Chris Dougherty had well received work on the Homework Wall. Fortunately, JoAnne Fossa left behind her work of rocks now completed.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In this rendition JoAnne used a range of color on grey toned paper<br />
highlighting the exceptional <br />
blues and violets in Jill Levine's rocks, lent to us for the classes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In this rendition JoAnne used a monochromatic palette<br />
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calling attention to the form of the rocks.</td></tr>
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<b>Katie Bull was able to send a copy of her work </b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katie Bull Tackled the Work from last week<br />
using a strong range of color to render the green vegetation on Bailey Tract<br />
on Sanibel Island, Florida.<br />
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VALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-29469004239333462262013-06-04T09:32:00.000-07:002013-06-04T09:32:11.743-07:00How Green Is My Green<div style="text-align: center;">
The homework wall was ablaze with bouquets of Lilacs but the Instructor was so dazzled she forgot to take a photo of the work of Linda, JoAnne, Katie, and Mary. They can be seen over the shoulders of the artists hard at work later in the class.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Vetere is beginning to sketch her most favorite flowers, peonies, brought to class<br />
by Beth Shipley from her garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The peonies as they appeared. More peonies later in the Blog.</td></tr>
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We examined the work of two Artists who work in Pastel: <a href="http://www.wolfkahn.com/">Wolf Kahn</a> and <a href="http://www.elizabethmowry.com/">Elizabeth Mowry</a>. The similarities and differences, advantages and disadvantages, between pastels and colored pencils was investigated both in the work of the two artists and books each of them have written on the medium: <i>Wolf Kahn Pastels</i> and <i>The Pastelist's Year</i>. Even though the pencil box we are using -<i> Prismacolor 24 Premier Colored Pencils </i>has 4 green pencils, we looked at the work of the artists with an eye to examining the rich ways they depicted "greens" and how convincing they were. (Remember to click on the images to enlarge them)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From <i>Wolf Kahn Pastels</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We proceeded to apply the lessons learned from the above named artists with this photograph entitled <br /><i>House Seen From Bailey Tract</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Demonstration is on Bristol Vellum using Indigo for the drawing, then applying color a la Mr. Kahn. The Palm fronds are Indigo applied to the yellows of the sky. More to come next week.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time for a tea Break before tackling the project: JoAnne, Cathy (who brought the snack) Katie, Beth Pam Morss, Ann, Mary, Beth, and Pam Price. Welcome company on a rainy morning.</td></tr>
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VALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-15679671969598117832013-05-21T13:00:00.000-07:002013-05-21T13:00:05.706-07:00A Taste For ModernismOn Friday, May 17th ten of us traveled to the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine to see the exhibit <i> </i><a href="http://portlandmuseum.org/exhibitions-collections/current.shtml" style="font-style: italic;">The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste For Modernism</a><i>. </i><br />
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Before looking at the homework or making art, we discussed the exhibit at length. The take-aways included the joy of feeling as if we were in William Paley's home viewing the art, even to the color (white) of the walls; the surprise of seeing paintings and works we were familiar with owing to their being masterpieces and the artists, famous; and the drafting skill that undergirded all of the works. A <a href="http://www.moma.org/docs/publication_pdf/3160/Paley_PREVIEW.pdf?1349376300">preview of the William S. Paley Collection</a> tells how he collected with a few descriptions and photographs of some of the works.<br />
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Next we looked at the homework. Two works from Grisaille II, and two works by the same artist in wax pencils and watercolor pencils.<br />
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The <i>HOMEWORK </i>for the two week hiatus (no school on Memorial Day) is to portray the Lilacs in a way that they deserve: strongly!</div>
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Last week we tackled Grisaille II: techniques to draw and paint monochromatic grey works with a color bias. We used photographs that were made to look like paintings from a calendar called "The Impressionist Camera". Hugely challenging, so work is being continued on the project.</div>
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Three works - one complete and two in progress were presented for appraisal.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">September: (Hugo Henneberg) <i>Hill</i> 1899) by Katie Bull.<br />Note how she capitalized on the rough side of MiTientes white pastel paper. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May: (Bernard Eilers) <i>Amsterdam </i>1901) WIP by JoAnne Fossa.<br />Using only three pencils on blue toned MiTientes paper, <br />her challenge is to edit out the mid ground details</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June: (Leonard Misonne) <i>Children</i> 1908) WIP by Linda Harvey.<br />Note Linda's preparatory work on the right side. She is using toned gray<br /> MiTientes paper.<br /></td></tr>
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This week there were several bouquets to choose from: Tulips from Xuan's garden, Lilacs from Cathy's garden, and the WBUR Mother's Day Bouquet from Cricket.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">The demonstration was the use of water soluble colored pencils on canvas as an end in itself or to use as an under drawing for an oil, acrylic, or pastel painting. We used as inspirations, portraits of bouquets painted by Édouard Manet (1832-1883) at the end of his all too brief life:<br />
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<br />VALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-37341571410627494772013-05-07T12:37:00.001-07:002013-05-07T12:37:18.318-07:00Grisaille II<br />
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Last Week we turned to our neighbor Stefaan and Nancy's Magnolia tree for inspiration. The homework wall this week sported three Colored Pencil renditions and a finished stone painting.<br /></div>
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The critique focused on values both in the rendering of the stones themselves and the shadows they cast.<br />
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As Dr. Farthing from the Ruskin School at Oxford pointed out, color is the most complicated element in the range of art we call drawing. Toned paper had to be evaluated as both color and value.</div>
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As several of our number went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for Art in Bloom we delayed Grisaille II until next week and their return, and availed ourselves of blooms from our neighbor Stefaan's magnificent Magnolia Tree. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The drawing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The blossoms</td></tr>
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Pam elects to draw in graphite and then to paint in watercolor.<br />
Whether students used graphite or colored pencil it was clear that skill and freedom were very much in evidence<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The completed painting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Therese chose colored pencil. Note the palette choices.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary alternated colored pencil and graphite</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary's blossoms in front of her drawing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pam's Colored Pencil rendition of a single bloom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris opts for drawing a still life of magnolia, andromeda, and quince bouquet.</td></tr>
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The Spring Session of our Garage School of Art is off to a great start as we tackle grisaille, a method for painting grey monochrome. Our first subjects are stunning stones from the coast of Maine collected by my neighbor Jill Levine and lent to us for our studies. The great artist and teacher John Ruskin used just such stones in his iconic book <i>The Elements of Drawing,</i> making the claim, "Now if you can draw that stone, you can draw anything; I mean anything that is drawable." So we made our way to Oxford and the Ruskin School of Art, compliments of iTunesU, where Dr. Stephen Farthing instructed us in the use of toned paper and the advantages of color. Dr. Farthing emphasized that the addition of color is the most complicated element in the range of art that we call drawing.<br />
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Using images of Jill's stones in warm grey monotone and color we experimented using both graphite and colored pencils on toned paper following Dr. Farthing's instructions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JoAnne started with black and white.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda Harvey's drawing in its beginning stages.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane begins</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warmly toned paper is hospitable to cool colors/</td></tr>
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Beautiful and elegant drawings appeared quickly. Skill and artistry is evidenced in the gallery of artist at work.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Therese beginning the line drawing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cathy adds contrast.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katie feels out her drawing like Ruskin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pans in Pam's set rendered like jewels .</td></tr>
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The homework is to make a chart of as many grays in the Prismacolor set that you can, by combining complimentary colors and finally adding white or grey.<br />
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This week we were graced with the presence of Guest Artist and Instructor Joan Benotti <a href="http://www.joanbenotti.com/">www.joanbenotti.com</a>. Joan is a protean artist who works in oils, wood, gold leaf, paper, gesso, and colored pencils to name just a few of the materials she processes into compelling and richly annotated works of art. She generously instructed us in the ways she customizes Nautical Maps. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan told how she began embellishing Nautical Charts with colored Pencils while living on Eleuthera in the Bahamas.</td></tr>
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Time, then, to go to the beach and gather things, or to the library or nearby book shop for books on native flora and shells, or the internet for reference materials.<br />
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Joan collects old stamps, post cards, and antique books to help inform the iconography of her charts. When working with a client she might incorporate personal effects, like note, letters, or in the case of her brother who was a Chemist, the periodic table of elements.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next, make drawings on tracing paper to place your information.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The demonstration chart of Salem, Beverly, and Manchester.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Healy gets her bearings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Vettere explores the Salem of her childhood.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pam Price working from her preparatory sketches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Ellen Leekley finds a turtle on Misery Island.</td></tr>
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Success! Next week we start our Spring Session with many annotated and embellished charts on the Homework Wall! We are all so grateful to Joan for a terrific class!<br />
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VALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-15198859916468090192013-03-26T08:42:00.001-07:002013-03-26T08:46:03.500-07:00Colored Pencil Week Six<div style="text-align: center;">
The Homework Challenge from Week Five was started in last week's class. A landscape, <i>West Beach Sunset,</i> was drawn using water soluble colored pencil on a bumpy, student grade water color paper and opened up with a brush and water to provide back lighting. The homework was to continue the landscape using the set of 24 Prismacolor Premier wax based colored pencils.</div>
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While each painting has beautiful backlighting, all three artists mentioned how the paper fought heavy applications of the wax pencils, but that light came through from the open spaces.</div>
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After the critique, we prepared for a portrait painting of Dr.Shui-ying Hu, a Chinese Botanist of high esteem, who died last year at 102. She is being honored in April by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and we have been given permission to use the photo for painting. First, we watched a film of Alberto Giacometti the famous artist, painting a portrait drawing. We watched this film twice to learn his device of starting with the midline. <a href="http://youtu.be/QS0PzOwfmHo">http://youtu.be/QS0PzOwfmHo</a></div>
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Next we made a chart of one and a half inch circles, experimenting with many possibilities for flesh tones.</div>
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<b><b>Four Weeks of working with the new medium of Colored Pencils demonstrated how talented and hard working the artists using them are!</b></b></div>
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<b><b>The Homework Wall from the Week Four Challenge:</b></b></div>
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Top Row: Jane Tocco, Marcia Seward, Mary Vetere, Katie Bull<br />
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Homework Challenge in Week Four week was to simplify the visual images in the Day Lily photo painting realistically or abstractly or anywhere in between. We were treated to a breath taking display.<br />
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All of the paintings were done with the 24 pencil Prismacolor Set.<br />
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Each Artist met the challenge in a distinctive way, choosing a single motif, a double motif; background or no background.<br />
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The Painting Challenge for Week Five is to paint this West Beach Sunset employing both water-soluble pencils and Prismacolor Premier Pencils.</div>
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VALERIE MCCAFFREYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17205642590715208098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4293354840330725909.post-15793496085364432232013-03-12T12:10:00.002-07:002013-03-12T12:10:33.142-07:00Colored Pencil Week FourThe Homework Challenge from Week Three was to take something from the refrigerator and paint it using only three primary colors. The Homework Wall was ablaze in color with a few renditions of sky and sunset from the previous week's challenge, as well as a very healthy selection of fruits and vegetables from well stocked refrigerators.<br />
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The Critique focused on getting the pencils to do what the artists wanted them to do; and on using the materials to produce a balanced result.<br />
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<i>"I do not invent the picture. On the contrary I find it already there in nature; I just have to free it."</i> Vincent Van Gogh. After reading a page from the tome <i>Van Gogh The Life</i> by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith concerning the compositional device of simplifying and abstracting, we watched a video produced by the Portland Museum of Art that corresponds to a current exhibit of the work of Lois Dodd: <a href="http://youtu.be/fzC8lt168pk">http://youtu.be/fzC8lt168pk</a><br />
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The exercise for the week is to start making a chart for each of the colors in the Prismacolor 24 box.<br />
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Everyone did the exercise in their own style, introducing Canary Yellow to the colors as they are positioned in the tin.<br />
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The Painting for the week, as well as the challenge, is to simplify the visual images in the photographs below, painting realistically or abstractedly or something in between.</div>
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The day lilies are a happy memory of drawing in the garden last summer, and hope that Spring will arrive early.</div>
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And the homework was.......skies from <i>The Life of Pi</i> and <i>Sanibel Sunset.</i> Mary Vetere and Katie Bull mined their imaginations and treated us to many beautiful skies on the Homework Wall. Chris, JoAnne, Mary, Katie, and Marcia also explored the new medium of colored pencils and participated in the critique in helpful ways to all of us. As it was Cathy Ebling's Birthday, and she miraculously appeared in complimentary colors, we honor her here.<br />
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Warm ups were done drawing the bouquet of daffodils on the table, as well as selections from the food magazine <i>Edibles.</i><br />
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The second chart was made using a tonal technique: holding the pencil flat with a simple up and down stroke, a value chart was created. Keeping to a light pressure, color was applied into each square one more time than the previous square. At the end, gaps were filled in by applying pressure equal to the value of that square. This is tricky business and needs a lot of experience to perfect.</div>
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The sky was invaded by great white clouds, flat on the bottom but round and billowy on top.</div>
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The sky was completely cloudless, of a blue quite shattering to the senses.</div>
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The sky was a heavy, suffocating blanket of grey cloud, but without promise of rain. The sky was thinly overcast.</div>
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The sky was dappled with small, white, fleecy clouds.</div>
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The sky was a featureless milky haze.</div>
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The sky was a density of dark and blustery rain clouds that passed without delivering rain.</div>
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The sky was painted with a small number of flat clouds that looked like sandbars.</div>
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The sky was a mere block to allow a visual effect on the horizon: sunlight flooding the ocean, the vertical edges between light and shadow perfectly distinct.</div>
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First it was bright, then an interesting storm with the snow flying parallel to the ground, then bright again with a Rome-Florida-Bermuda sky making holiday all over the sunny hills, and small orange clouds, dazzling with a kind of light and lovely fire hung in the sky like clouds in a Giovanni Bellini picture, and the whole business was gayer than any worlds fair I ever heard of.</div>
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Now the sun was below the hills, but the sky was the cleanest and clearest blue you ever saw and in it a couple of light, fiery clouds, like in Bellini’s pictures again.</div>
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The Study for the Week is Sanibel Sunset employing both Linear and Tonal Techniques:</div>
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Next, we rearranged our 24 pencil sets, cooler tones before warmer of the same color, sticking with our Impressionist palette of yellow, red, blue, violet, green, brown, white and black.<br />
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Taking time to lightly lay in color using linear technique and not rushing the application, beautiful drawings were completed. Below, my demonstrated drawing:</div>
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The onions themselves will be sliced and placed into the slow cooker with a stick of butter to cook until they are caramelized!</div>
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