Last Thursday, art classes started again with Vanda, after the summer break. I had really missed the classes over the summer. I miss the company and conversation with intelligent women and enjoy te discipline of the art exercises that Vanda sets.
We started with a photo of a selection of objects. My image was of red glass vessels, a lilac and gold plate and an apricot jug against a blue background, on a white table. We had to blend the colours identified using watercolours. This was quite difficult to get the colours right, but I managed to blend 42 colours!
Next we used isolating bars to select 4 different areas, and work up a sample using water colour, crayons, art bars (water soluble oil pastels), and oil pastels. finally we selected one section and enlarged it to 2 4" squares, and redrew it using the two most favourable media, in my case, crayon and art bars. Scratching into crayon works well for me. We were meant to then do a further exercise where we did the same with an actualobject of our choice, but we were all exhausted. All this thinking is very tiring!
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