New Drawing: 1-1-11
Untitled
Ink and watercolor on Yupo paper
8.5″ x 11.5″
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn
This is my first completed drawing/painting of the year, completed on 1-1-11. I’m returning to working with ink, something I’ve spent many years doing since at least high school, but this time I’m trying out some experimental techniques. I’m also exploring depicting patterns like those seen in the skin of giraffes and sea turtles.
Are Your Objects Objects or Facsimiles?
“Rabbit”
Jeff Koons 1986
Stainless Steel
41 x 19 x 12 inches
Class notes from Poetic Non-Representational Acrylic Painting with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
The object in the painting – is it being an object vs. being a facsimile of the object? Does it have a history, a great hook, and richness, a fullness, or is it empty?
What’s the difference between this abstract piece of art and wallpaper?
Just Make Work!
Painting by Joan Snyder
“Magic Meadow”
Class notes from Poetic Non-Representational Acrylic Painting with Andrew Long , Fall 2007
What do you think of when you think of a building? Do you think of the structure underneath? Why don’t they call it a “built”? “Building” is a verb – a process.
There is No Seam
Painting by Louis Finkelstein
“Hanover Center II”
1998, oil on canvas,
38 x 42 inches
Notes from “Thoughts About Painting” by Louis Finkelstein from “Painterly Painting,” 1971
“Between technique, vision, design, expression there is no seam; neither is one thing the cause and another the result.”
Class Notes on Color
Still Life with Orange and Teapot
Oil on Canvas Board
11″ x 14″
© 1992 Marilyn Fenn
Class notes, SAIC, 1991
- More transparent colors recede; more opaque colors come forward.
- Unify the painting by using the same yellow, orange, etc.
- Gray colors by using their complements.
Tips for Improving Your Paintings
Drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn
“Reclining Lion”
pen and paint brush
ca. 1650
Class notes from art camp classes with George Liebert and Dan Gustin, Oxbow, MI, summer 1991.
Make a list of verbs and adjectives about your own work.
When struggling with a work, isolate parts of it and do lots of sketches to come up with a better composition.
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