landscape revisited

This was a term for thick paint and huge gestures!!

i wanted to get everyone into the idea of slathering on loads of paint so they started working into a fluid ground. Quite difficult with acrylic but possible with loads of paint  thick medium and retarder.

A trip to the Botanical gardens to gather some ideas and reference photos and sketches.It rained!

but nothing quite like a spot of rain to make one realise what hardy creatures landscape painters are…and morale stayed high

I suggested to everyone that they evoke AS WELL AS record what they were seeing

Then back in the hall we started off with the wonderfully freeing exercise of painting with fresco brushes and working collaboratively- as in moving round and working into each others paintings20150603_132925

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Then we did a “ten paintings in one day”

working on gessoed paper the pressure was on to produce many small works in one day.This also is very freeing…using lots of paint and without the luxury of time to get precious about what we were putting down, the marks are fresh and gestural and capture the bigger picture and the emotional response to our subject matter

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fast studies

 

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it was interesting to then start a more considered work and see how these freeing exercises had shifted peoples process…

we  continued working on good quality 500 GSM gessoed paper this term, which is quite different form working on canvas

annetteAnnette Pearton

 

diane kendallDiane Kendall

 

cynthia mitchellCynthia Mitchell

 

jenny wangJenny Wang

 

angie ngAngie Ng

 

mei burnsMei Burns

 

jo turnerJo Turner

 

anita gateAnita Gate

 

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and this was my favourite of all..

what a little cracker!!

not sure who made it either…but it is full of spirit and luscious paint

All up a tremendously energising term

we turned into painters overnight…

long may it continue using loads of paint

Gordon Harris is going to love us from now on…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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