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Color Bullies, Part 2

My advanced drawing students successfully bullied me into 2 oil painting workshops. We had a great time!

A rebel set aside her Sequoia painting that she began last week. This is of the Tetons from a photo she took. I painted the scene first so it would be a little easier for her. (I had the assignment of copying an “Old Master” during the 1/2 semester of painting I took at the local junior college – copying is a good way to learn.)

A rebel set aside her Sequoia tree to finish a painting of the Tetons that she began last year.

We had an overachiever who worked on 2 paintings at the same time.

An overachiever worked on 2 paintings at the same time.

Good job, E! You get an A for sure. No rebelling, one painting at a time.

Good job, E. You get an A for sure!

Turned out that two painters did choose the same scene. We put them side by side, and learned that the one on the left could benefit from stronger colors and more contrast, and the one on the right could benefit from more detail. Interesting exercise! (They look different in real life than on the screen because I had to mess with the photo because it didn’t look right because. . . . on and on and on. Never mind.)

Two painters ended up working on the same scene.

At the end of our session, it turns out that we had two rebels and five Sequoia trees. Yes, that is a cat, but the cat painter is actually drawing a Sequoia tree in pencil these days.

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None of these paintings are finished. They need more layers, more details, some color corrections, edges of canvas painted, signatures, and varnish.

This probably means there will be another painting session ahead.

2 Comments

  1. Jana,

    Hello California artist friend! Sorry my blogging skills have been so abysmal lately.

    Fun to browse back over your last two posts and to see the oil painting class, and this one too. I bet the class was fun for your students. My daughter is enjoying a five hour studio drawing class once a week, with accompanying long homework stretches too on other days of the week. She’s loving it and learning lots.

    Smiling, and cold here in MN,
    Jennifer Dougan
    http://www.jenniferdougan.com

    • Jennifer, your last post about staying afloat was wonderful in every way. Thank you for checking in, and I’m glad to hear that Morgan is enjoying her pursuit of art education. It would be such fun to meet her and hear what she is learning and what she thinks about it all.

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