AIRDRIE EMPTY BOWLS FESTIVAL

 This year I choose to paint a peacock to adorn the bowl.   The colours green  blue and yellow.  It's story wraps the outside of the bowl with Beautiful Quotations all pertaining to presenting your true self. Please visitThe Airdrie Food Bank page to check out all the bowls. 100% of your donation goes toward the food bank , they can really use the support this year. 

Rosebud Beauty in a Bowl

 

Oil Painting 11x14 

ROSEBUD BEAUTY IN A BOWL

THIS ONE LITTLE BUD BROKE FROM ITS STEM AND THE BOUQUET WAS TRULY MISSING ITS BEAUTY AS IT UNFOLDED ITS PETALS AT ITS OWN SHOW.

Registration Thursday October 18th 3 - 4 pm

Registration for Art Classes IS CANCELLED WHILE COVID is still a health concern 

May - underpainting in acrylic yellow red purple, draw in black

Using a MIke Svob technique to painting.  I actually started this lesson in December, months before I attended the workshop with Mike.
The drawing of the painting will become part of the finished painting as oil paint will not merge
The scene is a close up of a mountains snowy glacier.

Paintings using coloured underpainting

April: Working in Clay BAS RELEIF

Students will create a two dimensional image

March Still Life Fragmenting

Students will complete their Fragmented paintings similar to the style of Angus Wilson.  Using a still life set up students will sketch their scene and the cut that drawing, displacing one piece students will then draw out their still life fragments onto their canvas & outline in black.  Students will determine what colour they want to paint and then they will paint the canvas in the complimentary colour . When complete they will paint lightly over the complimentary colour the originally planned colour.

Victoria Ellis Carves Fine Bas Relief Figurative Clay Mural

Painting using blocking in

The students are learning 5 ways to underpaint their artworks:
1. Sepia tone
2. Black shapes and colourful transparent paint (purple.blue/red)
3. Blocking in large shapes in dark neutrals
4. Blocking in the shapes in same colour of painting
5. Drawing- concise and accurate

This is the blocking in lesson students used