10:30 am. My studio.
Very stormy weather
First day on the regular class schedule. Met Lucy, the new painting instructor, talked with her for about 40 minutes to start me thinking about what I want to be working on while I'm here.
I still have no idea.
She gave lots of suggestions (mainly that I need to think more about how I use space and texture in my paintings) but it was a bit overwhelming, really. I don't think I quite understand what she wants from me yet. Do I focus on improving the mechanics of my work, and let the subject be whatever the hell I feel like painting that week? Because that sounds like a good plan to me. But I feel like she's expecting a little more uniformity of subjects, even possibly abstracty crap that I don't really feel like doing.
Lucy says to pick a painting I really like and then write a paragraph on why I like it.
I like Waterhouse's paintings a lot because they have great fantasy touches to them, but I wouldn't want to paint in his style.
I like the color and brush flow in impressionist work, but sometimes they can get a little too painterly for my taste.
I admire painters who do very well-rendered realistic still lifes, but I might kill myself if I had to do that.
URRRG this is hard. Someone email me and tell me what to do.
paint a cow
ReplyDeletepaint what you like and think about space and texture while you're doing it. you might pick something you really like and paint it a couple of times, varying how you use the space and varying the texture. paint a cow, don't have a cow.
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