End-of-semester crits were conducted last week. Reviewers include faculty, visiting artists, graduate and undergraduate students, and visitors. There are approximately 30 graduate students in two class years. Everyone is encouraged to respond to the work and ask questions of the presenting artists. This process is intended to provide direction for second semester work. ABOVE: Olives and Oranges … [Read more...]
Mid-term
A Japanese wedding kimono was loaned to me for a studio set-up with a vase of silk flowers. It's an opportunity for color, pattern, and drama. Two Visual Critique responses to oil paintings by two students. The Wednesday night model didn't show up so students took turns posing for the class; thank you Ying! ABOVE: Silk Flowers, oil on linen, 22 x 20 inches (56 x 51 cm), 10/28/11 Silk … [Read more...]
BU First Month
Events are moving too quickly to post everything from the graduate school program on the blog. Here are highlights. The photographs are snapshots, hand held, daylight. The city paintings are influenced in part by recently reading Don DeLillo's White Noise. The story concerned an "airborne toxic event" hovering over Somerville, Mass, circa 1985. The next series of paintings use only black and … [Read more...]
Project Review
Painting in school quickly developed too many areas of interest: oil landscapes, figure drawing, homework, and the bamboo pen & sumi ink drawing series. I realized drawing is pushing out painting time in the first three weeks. These are all good projects but the MFA degree I am pursuing is in painting, not drawing. Adjustments must be made. The oil landscapes are from my studio window. … [Read more...]
Comm Ave
The last two weeks felt like a roller coaster's slow steady climb to the top of the first lift hill. Then the front car crested the first peak and it was look out below, full of shrieks, hollers and incredulous smiles: id, parking pass, bank loan, orientation, materials, moving out, moving in, classes, assignments, receptions, meeting colleagues and instructors. Commuting for a couple hours each … [Read more...]
Yellow Cloth, no. 2
I was surprised to find this on the studio easel when I came back from Bennington, as if painted by someone else. The graphic use of color -- bread as an icon -- the scale, design and arrangement of forms in a studio piece seem distant from the atmosphere of outdoor painting. I see color in a new way. A saturated blue patch of sky framed by dark emerald pines appears vivid purple. This painting … [Read more...]
Wellesley
Paths, oil on linen panel, 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm), 8/13/11 … [Read more...]
ANE / Benn — Conclusion
I was happy with the long sought efficiency of my painting field equipment. The Soltek easel proved to be extremely versatile. It was able to hold two stretched linens at once, providing stability to both while simultaneously painting across them for the diptych shown above. A helpful musician from the "Chamber Music Conference & Composer's Forum of the East", the group that is on campus with … [Read more...]
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