document real life

Geez I haven't posted in awhile.

My current painting. Maybe I should call it a collaboration? The painting underneath was someone else's. Our first project this semester was to take a piece someone else had done, flip it upside down, and create a painting. It ended up being my best one so far, so I'm re-using the concept for my final project. I picked up about 5 or 6 abandoned paintings from my prof's office to use for a series.

I'm trying not to think too hard about this. I think that's one of my problems. I think too hard and worry too much. I guess I'm sort of doing impromtu painting. We'll see how the rest turn out.

Working on a painting for class right now. We're supposed to take an old master's painting and redo it using a contemporary artist's style. So I went with Seurat's "Sunday On The Island of La Grande Jatte" using Scott Anderson's style.

So not done yet *sigh* I guess I'm doing another abstract-ish painting which is a nice change. I think I could get into that genre with some practice. I can't do realism. I can do pseudo-realism I guess?

Had fun with our first painting project of the year. Take an old painting and paint a new still-life over it, but leave some of the underpainting showing. So I took an abandoned painting from the painting storage room, then grabbed some dried gourds the prof had and went at it.

Day 1

Day 2

2 day in-class painting. Started with an acrylic underpainting using complimentary colors. 2nd layer is oil. The underpainting is supposed to poke though, but I need to work on that.

I think I did okay with the abstraction. I definitely like the first painting best.