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Shape, Color & Pattern

December 2, 2022 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Workshop Art: Ken Kewley’s Looking and Inventing

Clara Reading — figure from life, painted-paper collage in color, 5.5x3.25 inch, June 2022“Separation of the observer from the phenomenon
to be observed is no longer possible.”
— Werner Heisenberg, 1927

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Participating in a Ken Kewley collage workshop has become a nearly annual event for me since 2015. It is hard to equal elsewhere the quantity and scope of work produced in one of Ken’s workshops. The pace is fast. Each set of instructions builds upon the previous. From line to shape, from black and white to color, from flat to 3D, from still to animation—the sequential development organically shifts from invention to observation back to invention. It’s a breathtaking and giddy experience, made richer by working next to and interacting with a small group of diversely talented artists.

Ken has taught for many years at Three Pines Studio in remote northern Michigan. The tiny town of Cross Village is renowned for its excellent food and welcoming community. A compact, limited supply list made it easy to fly from Boston to Pellston Regional Airport with connecting flights through Detroit. Without a car on site, I was dependent for transportation on friends of the studio and other workshop attendees which posed no problems. A rented cottage with kitchen, reserved by the studio, provided comfortable private housing.

Link for more pages of my artwork done at semi-annual workshops.

Above: Figure from Life, Clara Reading — 5.5×3.25 inch, acrylic-painted paper collage, color & drawing over print of previous state, June 2022

Werner Heisenberg, theoretical physicist, mathematician (1901–1976): Uncertainty/Indeterminacy Principle, regarding sub-atomic particles, 1927.

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Three Pines photograph collage tabletopAbove: a short list of supplies made it easy to fly to northern Michigan:
glue, scissors, masking tape, acrylic paint.

Three Pines photograph finished work wallAbove: my work occupies center 3 columns of
8.5×11 inch archival printer paper.

Three Pines photograph finished work wallAbove: workroom is in a former school house;
artwork on 8.5×11 inch archival printer paper is taped to blackboard.

 3 Pines Stage Set acrylic-painted cardboardAbove: Stage Set, acrylic-painted cardboard and masking tape.

Three Pines photograph collage tabletopAbove: Three Views of Stage Set, acrylic-painted paper collage.

 3 Pine farm cabin gardenAbove & below: gardens and farm cottage housing.

3 Pine farm cabin

Lake Michigan at Cross VillageAbove: Lake Michigan at Cross Village, Michigan.

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Filed Under: Acrylic, Animation, Collage / Color, Drawing, Figure, Painting Tagged With: abstraction, figurative, Ken Kewley, Michigan, reading, Three Pines

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