Treasure Chest: Tips for Improving Your Paintings
“Alien Gate”
Watercolor crayon on paper
9″ x 12″
© 2009 Marilyn Fenn
Treasure Chest
Today I’m participating in a collaborative online project with other art bloggers. We are re-posting one of our favorite posts from our blogs. I chose to re-post some notes from art school from way back when, because I find these tips personally useful to review every so often, especially this year when I am exploring various other avenues in my creative process. Perhaps other artists will find some of these tips helpful, too.
I also recommend that you view the post from the organizer of this project, Seth Apter, on his blog The Altered Page. It’s a gorgeous, compelling and inspiring piece.
You can link to all participating artists from the Treasure Chest post on Seth’s blog.
Finally, the piece above is a brand new work from my new series, Paintings from the Hot, Hot Summer of 2009. So here’s my Buried Treasure:
Class notes from art camp classes with George Liebert and Dan Gustin, Oxbow, MI, summer 1991.
Drawing vs. Painting: More Artists to Look At
Painting by Susan Rothenberg
“Triphammer Bridge”
1974
Synthetic polymer paint and tempera on canvas
67 1/8″ x 9′ 7 3/8″
More Notes from Art School, SAIC, 1991
More artists to look at:
Draw Abstracted Form Merging with Landscape
Sketch of anthropomorphized landscape form
pencil
© 1991 Marilyn Fenn
Some random class notes from Advanced Drawing with Barbara Rossi, SAIC, 1991
“The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature—translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive and every work of art should be alive.”
- Hans Hoffman
More Artists to Look At
Painting by Christian Rohlfs
“Birkenwald”
oil on linen
110 x 75 cm, 1907
Class notes from SAIC, 1991
Look at the work of some German Expressionists:
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