Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Glass Reflections


Here is my finished painting from Paul Jackson's workshop. I'm very pleased with the perfume bottle and all the colors. I do think I need to go back in and tweak the orange bottle a bit more, but I'll live with it a few days and see then. We used so much water for the glazing and I was scared to make my paint so watery, but obviously that's what lets the light shine through all the layers. I'm so used to painting dark to light that this was a real challenge. However, now I think I'll try more light to dark as my method. We'll see. The worst thing now is that I'll have to go out and buy some glass for some setups. I've always had a whole lot of crystal and china, but no colorful glass. But, I think I'm hooked and really like the idea of broadening my subjects that I particularily like to paint. We'll have Paul back down here in August for the opening of the Downtown Tyler Arts Gallery and I'll certainly look forward to seeing him and Marla, his pretty wife. They were so gracious and so much fun. The workshop itself was a blast. We had 3 ladies to come down from Dallas and they were all excellent artists. They came out to our house after the first session to photograph my chickens and I know that he got a whole bunch. Now, we'll see if he works them into any of his masterpieces.

9 comments:

  1. It looks smashing! Just great. Pretty soon you will be having your own little art class for us and we can drain your artistic brain.

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  2. Mollie you did a fabulous job on this painting it's sunning. I really love this one.

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  3. Mollie, your painting is really good! This one is beautiful ... I can't wait to see your next one.

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  4. Thanks all. You just have NO idea how much I enjoyed the workshop. Paul is a fabulous teacher and he is so generous. I just had a bit of trouble shifting from dark first to light first, but I'm going to do another setup on my own (will take a bit of time to come up with a good design I'll bet) and we'll see what stuck and what evaporated. Personally, I think everyone came away with a piece they were rather proud of painting.

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  5. Hi Mollie! Beautiful painting. You're right to feel proud of it! We need to have a Jones family get together again soon.

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  6. OH Mollie - just love it. You must be proud of this piece, and it sounds like a fun workshop. Wish I could have joined you all!!

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  7. Thanks Jennifer..so happy that you stopped by my blog. This art connection has been wonderful and I'm loving painting again. Yes, I'd love to get the Jones bunch together again too...and before Thanksgiving. Hope baby Hattie is still doing well. If you have any pics to post, would love to see her. Hello to Alan.

    And thanks Joyce. You know your comments are jewels to me. Love that demo of the perfume bottle you have going right now. Wish I had the funds to purchase it! I punched it up on my monitor last night and love how "clean" your colors are. Just love it.

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  8. This is fantastic! Must have been an excellent workshop to attend.

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  9. Thanks Krista. Can't tell you how much you can learn from a really good teacher...and he is! Thanks for stopping by.

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