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.

"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?

Matthew Ritchie -- "You mostly wait around for things to leak." -MR, from this Boston Globe article.

Check out Guerra Paints in NY or Nova Paints in CA for large bottle of pre-mixed binder & highly concentrated paints to mix.

To increase interest, drama, contrast, come in with a pure black, white or deeper shade of color to really pop things up in high relief. Try india ink.

Mediums - retarder will make paint work more like oils. Acrylic flow release will break apart the paint. Use GAC100 + water (50-50) to use atomizer.

Use a belt sander with 30-50 grit sandpaper to carve down into the history of your paint. Try a dremel tool.

Jeff Koons has 80 assistants!

Mia Pearlman
MAELSTROM
2008
Paper, India ink, aluminum, monofilament, wire
12' Dia x 11' H
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

See and read more about the work of Mia Pearlman.

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.

Maxine Price - a fellow student's favorite artist, for layers and colors.

Just make work!  Andrew made over 150 pcs. his first year; he's now been painting 7 years.

Joan Snyder - who won a MacArthur - does 90% of her paintings in acrylic, top 10% in oil.  See more of her work at this Danforth Museum exhibit and at the Brooklyn Museum exhibit.

Techniques:

• Clear tar - makes acrylics work more like oil.
• Get an ice chopper and cake spatula from restaurant supply store.