This week was my a week to get on track and review my progress in class.
On Monday we had a lecture about the figure and body and had a photo slideshow on different artists’ works. Abstraction was a large focus this week. For our Monday afternoon workshop we had a live model for three hours where we used the medium charcoal and later oil paint. I have struggled so far with breaking the habit of naturally drawing the subject rather than shape and other exercises- this week I got to breathe a little and dive into color usage and my own visual “taste”. I thoroughly enjoyed the oil painting of our live model as the structured time and scale for each painting taught me how to act fast and stay focused on our subject. I gained more confidence in my messy lines and color usage post-critique this day.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, “No Such Luxury.” Creative copy 2.
Moving onto Wednesday, I chose New York artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s, “No Such Luxury.”
I did not completely finish my gridded abstraction but I posted the attempt as the last image. For our copy assignment, I used oil with medium on canvas paper. My second copy, the creative, I used the leftover paint from the first copy and used one palette knife on the cardboard-esque back of a finished canvas pad.
I love using and experimenting with color variation and decided I want to carry this into our final projects. Duve’s Tevet read from week three has got me thinkin’ about recognizing a painting as a painting and the idea of deconstruction and decay.
Wednesday afternoon I had my mid conference meeting and established a fair structural frame to better my success in this class and further my constant learning. My ideas for my final project were discussed and I am wanting to look at memory/experience, color theory, subjectivity and or objectivity, and my bathroom.
Moving into Thursday we brought out images of someone from the shoulders up- I brought in the one and only very missed beloved Zac Kresl! So cute.
Like always, I took forever to get started on the assignment but I worked with close detail and decided to “blow up” (scale alongside composition) my image on a larger piece of canvas paper. I still need to do some work on this piece. I will be focusing on color in representation of my work in abstraction.
For week six I look forward to our Seattle trip and visiting The Henry and museums downtown. The next upcoming weeks hold personal challenges in time and work management, group communication and meets, and balancing everything else to my fullest capability.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, “No Such Luxury.” Copy 1.
