Sunday, March 28, 2010

WIP...Negative Painting


Each Tuesday, a group of us get together and paint. We decided to have a "slumber party"/retreat/fun weekend of painting so we pulled this off Friday and Saturday. We are having Kay Smith (a fabulous artist from Big Spring here in May for a workshop and she is the master at wet-in-wet and negative painting) so we thought we might try to do a little homework before she comes so she won't think we're all dismal painters. So, this painting is my first attempt at a half sheet of flowers painted negatively (with no drawing) and this could be the main reason for taking a workshop from a wonderful teacher. The upper left corner is still all about shapes and I now must go in and "find" 2 or 3 more gladiola flowers. This will be done with laying in the darker background and "finding" those flowers...somehow. I didn't want much detail in the painting, as this is more about color and shapes. The background will also get several more passes to darken areas and drop in color. Since none of us have really painted wet-in-wet, we had a pretty good mess going for a while, but it is all such a wonderful learning process. And, after all...it's only paper.

6 comments:

  1. Its only paper but it is looking like a lot of fun and the colors are great!

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  2. Sorta glad you and your beautiful daughter couldn't stay and paint...you'd have pulled your hair out! It was fun...but challenging for all of us. We'll just wait for Kay!

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  3. This is so lovely Mollie, and I really like the paperwhites, too. These colors are filled with spring!!!

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  4. Mollie this is absolutely beautiful. It's full of light, shape, forms, contrasts. Really you did a stunning job.

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  5. Caught you, Mollie! Hiding this beauty from our Artcolony blog. Thanks for tattling on her, Christiane! I hope you all had a great art weekend... this gladiola is so bright and cheery! I'm afraid i would completely fail at Kay's technique...

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  6. Thanks, everybody. I worked on it again today at the Art Retreat and think I rescued the parts that were so glaring. Who knows????

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