Radical Impressionist: A Mathematician Paints

Session 3 Review: In the class we discussed briefly the use of a transparent underpainting. I referred the students to the "Oil Painter's Solution Book" demos by the author, Elizabeth Tolley. I continued on the "Santa Rita Mountains" briefly, trying to allow plenty of time for everyone to make progress on their paintings.  Some photos of these additional painting stages, courtesy of Steven Piepmeier, are included here: Texture added to the mountains.  Trees cut back (perhaps too far, removing the more interesting shapes they did have. I also lowered the horizon here to try to push the mountains back. To be continued.... I took a trip the day after the 3rd session to Tubac to see the Big Horn Gallery.  Of interest were the paintings that had the pinkish glow we have been attempting.  Here is one and note her demo in Tubac next week. Painting by Jessica Garrett, who will be giving an artist demo on Mar 12 and 13, 11-4 Other item

Review of Session 2: We discussed a video from Phil Starke's online blog: http://www.philstarkestudio.com/between-the-palette-scrapings/ , the lesson:  Learning How to See a Painting from a Photograph and looked at it briefly.  Your implied homework was to review the whole lesson, as he has several photographs he analyzed. HOMEWORK: you should bring in a photograph or two to analyze for your own painting in Session 3. Alternatively, look at the Session 1 photos, for the Sunlit Santa Rita Mountains, QC Golf Course at the End of Day, Santa Ritas from Suaharita and the Mountains from the Sales Office. If you don't have a copy of the photo you want, let me know and I will print it out.  See end of this post for some analysis of a photo, with value studies. I continued my demo on the Santa Rita Mountains, with painting photo reproduced here again: Santa Rita 5x7 painting reference Class Demo at end of Session 1, block-in stage The shadow pattern of the mountains was

Feb. 19 ========================= Session 1 Review. In the first session we covered most of the topics in the Session 1 post. I did not cover other artists' work. I did do a demo of the first stage underpainting for a copy of the painting, "Santa Rita Mountains" below.  I used Cobra water based oils with Gamblin solvent-free liquid as the medium. I painted "Santa Rita Mountains" en plein air last year and entered it in the Colorado Plein Air Artists Annual show, a difficult show to enter. We discussed what made this painting work and used it as a guide for the day's demo. '"Santa Rita Mountains", 5x7, oil, sold Toning: For the demo I used a linen panel toned with Indian Yellow, similar in mass tone to Transparent Orange. An advantage of Indian Yellow is that it makes a very nice pale yellow when mixed with white, so that it serves multiple purposes. As I experiment with it more, we will analyze this further. Underpainting: P