Jacksonville - Day 4

This is the last piece I painted at the workshop. It was a high-key painting of grapes in a white bowl. Unfortunately, I kept losing the shape of my bowl thus it ended up looking a bit wonky. I also blended more than I wanted to. I've got the info in my head - it's just the problem of getting it to all come out consistently! Argh! : ) But it will come. Careful observation! I also realized that I need to be fully alert and energetic when beginning to paint. This may seem obvious, but really, if you get lazy, it goes south pretty quickly!

Jacksonville - Day 3

Another great day of painting with Carol Marine. The top piece, strawberries falling out of the mug, was my favourite painting from the workshop. This painting was created by doing one brush stroke, followed by another colour from the palette, and then the next brush stroke. You were never to brush more than once without putting new paint on your brush. The idea was to make deliberate strokes, thinking about value and colour with each laying down of the paint. It really did help you focus by thinking very carefully about comparisons of value and colour.

Jacksonville - Day 1

Finally... a Florida posting! First (indulge me) I am posting a picture of the spanish moss hanging from the trees. Really very cool. Something I'd read about but had never seen. And it looks great as Halloween approaches : )

Secondly, this Carol Marine workshop has been wonderful and I have learned a LOT! Over the next number of months I will be revamping things, as I've learned a lot about how I want to move forward. Anyway, we've done a number of value studies in monochrome and colour. They may not look like much but have been great learning tools. Here are some pieces done on Day 1.