tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82276836376072843112024-03-13T00:22:55.254-07:00 Art by Clu: Paintings & Illustrations by Kathy CalhounCluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246644745940091404noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8227683637607284311.post-17551042834078587312023-02-07T06:55:00.000-08:002023-02-07T06:55:05.600-08:00Happy 2023 and My First Ever Newsletter!<p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTable15Grid1Light" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; width: 100%px;" summary="Newsletter layout table"><tbody><tr style="height: 113.85pt;"><td style="height: 113.85pt; padding: 0in 11.5pt 0.1in; width: 2in;" valign="bottom" width="192"><p class="MsoSubtitle" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoDate" style="color: #6ca800; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 2pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 28pt;">New Years’ 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style="background-color: #6ca800; height: 113.85pt; padding: 0in 11.5pt 0.1in; width: 5.5in;" valign="top" width="528"><p class="MsoTitleCxSpFirst" style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 39pt; margin: 0in;">KathyCalhoun.com <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoTitleCxSpLast" style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 39pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><u>classroom<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 7.8in;"><td style="height: 7.8in; padding: 0.5in 11.5pt 0in; width: 2in;" valign="top" width="192"><div style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 10pt 0in;"><p align="left" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;">Got a suggestion for topics or mediums you would like to learn more about and think I could do a decent job teaching?<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Then please send me an email about it!<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;">For more information on these classes just hit the link below<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;"><a href="https://kathycalhoun.com/classes-workshops/upcoming-in-2023" style="color: #91669c;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;">https://kathycalhoun.com/classes-workshops/upcoming</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;">-in-2023</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;"> </span></p></div></td><td style="height: 7.8in; padding: 0.5in 0in 0in; width: 5.5in;" valign="top" width="528"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Welcome to my first ever newsletter thingy! Not sure if this is gonna be a regular deal or not, but hey, new year new stuff, right?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><img alt="A picture containing sky, person, outdoor, grass
Description automatically generated" border="0" height="167" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/7bc40566-5387-4d19-9363-e8fc346d8f9e" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="172" /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h1 align="center" style="break-after: avoid; color: #6ca800; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17pt; line-height: normal; margin: 14pt 0in 6pt; text-align: center;">Workshops for Spring 2023 <span style="font-size: 16pt;">(and bonus question~what would you like to see as topics for other workshops?)</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Doing that Longwood University adjunct thing again but can still offer a few classics + one new class this Spring. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Introduction to Watercolor Class</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> Visual Arts Center on Fridays January 27<sup>th</sup>-March 3<sup>rd</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Value to Color in Painting Weekend Workshop</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> VMFA February 18-19<sup>th<o:p></o:p></sup></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Color Theory with the Masters</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> at the Visual Arts Center Tuesdays March 28<sup>th</sup>-April 25th<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">*NEW* Plein Air Intensive Class</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> VMFA Wednesdays May 10<sup>th</sup>-31<sup>st</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><w:sdt docpart="FFAE9C265CCAE54AA1A33CC312E0D6F5" id="-2051058562" showingplchdr="t" temporary="t"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Want to insert a picture from your files or add a shape, text box, or table? 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On the Insert tab of the ribbon, just tap the option you need.<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></p></w:sdt></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTable15Grid1Light" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 1.9in;"><td style="height: 1.9in; padding: 0in 11.5pt 0.1in; width: 2in;" valign="bottom" width="192"><p class="MsoDate" style="color: #6ca800; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24.533334732055664px; margin: 0in 0in 2pt; text-align: right;"><o:p> </o:p></p></td><td style="background-color: #6ca800; height: 1.9in; padding: 0in 11.5pt 0.1in; width: 5.5in;" valign="top" width="528"><p class="MsoTitleCxSpFirst" style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 39pt; margin: 0in;">KathyCalhoun.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoTitleCxSpLast" style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 39pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><u>exhibits<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 7.8in;"><td style="height: 7.8in; padding: 0.5in 11.5pt 0in; width: 2in;" valign="top" width="192"><div style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 10pt 0in;"><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;">Fun fact: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in; text-align: right;">The VMFA Faculty Exhibit is up until January 13 in the Studio School Building<o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td style="height: 7.8in; padding: 0.5in 0in 0in; width: 5.5in;" valign="top" width="528"><h1 align="center" style="break-after: avoid; color: #6ca800; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17pt; line-height: 26.066665649414062px; margin: 14pt 0in 6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.79999923706055px;">Double Exposure!<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><img border="0" height="159" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/abeebc9a-16ca-4b3a-9360-69d76b02455a" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_3" width="230" /><img alt="A book on a table
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Having my work the featured for the PR for even one of the exhibits was more than I hoped for; <i>but finding out I was the featured work for <u>both</u> was a real mind-blowing honor!!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; margin: 0in 0in 19pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #323948; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.33333206176758px;">Thank you Alec Grabiec at the Longwood Cultural Arts Center and Mary Holland at the VMFA Studio School for selecting my works.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 99.45pt;"><td style="height: 99.45pt; padding: 0in 11.5pt 0.1in; width: 2in;" valign="bottom" width="192"><p class="MsoDate" style="color: #6ca800; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24.533334732055664px; margin: 0in 0in 2pt; text-align: right;"><o:p> </o:p></p></td><td style="background-color: #6ca800; height: 99.45pt; padding: 0in 11.5pt 0.1in; width: 5.5in;" valign="top" width="528"><p class="MsoTitleCxSpFirst" style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 39pt; margin: 0in;">KathyCalhoun.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoTitleCxSpLast" style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 39pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><u>studio<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 7.8in;"><td style="height: 7.8in; padding: 0.5in 11.5pt 0in; width: 2in;" valign="top" width="192"><div style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 10pt 0in;"><p align="left" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;">Thanks for allowing me into your inbox and hope you enjoyed what you saw and read.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;">Still don’t have a real mail service so there is no unsubscribe button. In other words, you are trapped on my mailing list baah haaah (evil laugh;)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.066667556762695px;">Well not really, just send me an email asking me to drop and consider it done with no hard feelings (which is better than most unsubscribe buttons anyway)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><b>Wishing you and yours the best year yet in’23 </b>Just remember no matter what, no matter how,<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 27.733335494995117px;">keep creating!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; color: #323948; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.266664505004883px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; padding: 0in;"><img alt="A picture containing text
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I so enjoy being able to tie art creation to a good cause. I also loved being able to connect with the buyers and many others during this auction. Think this may be an annual things for me. Gotta check out my business plan and reality on it. </div>
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The round object is a cistern that collects to rainwater and filters it into limestone caves underground. The fortress at San Cristobal was one of the first in the world to realize the vitality of a fresh water source during long sieges. </div>
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Ironically now that Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria and now several earthquakes, water may become scarce again. </div>
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Your donation to buy this painting will 100% be sent to charities who will be sending fresh water along with other needed supplies to the island.</div>
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Starting my first piece to auction for Puerto Rico relief. Based on a photo I took the day in between the bigger quakes. Ironically-since drinkable water is now a concern- of a water cistern in the San Cristobal Fortress.<br />
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It will be an 8”x8” watercolor UVB spray protected and framed under glass.<br />
100% of the money raised will go to American Red Cross/ Puerto Rico or Unidos Hispanic Foundation. Auction winner gets to choose which one.<br />
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Thought new goals would not be as scary as I got older...</div>
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Cluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246644745940091404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8227683637607284311.post-64767717735344389992019-03-04T09:06:00.000-08:002019-03-04T09:28:42.042-08:00ON THE EASEL Glazing, Fat, Lean & Local while Going back in Time 200 YearsSo here is the completion of my <a href="https://www.memoryproject.org/">Memory Project</a> guy, what a 5 year old cutie? (you can see last post for earlier steps)...<br />
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Anyway, this new assignment is a copyist and self portrait combination...reminds me a bit of <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/nation-now/2016/10/13/kehinde-wileys-art-brings-color-old-masters/92025966/">Kehinde Wiley’s Work</a>. I decided to go with an incredibly prolific lady artist who is about 200 years past getting her due! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun">Elisabeth Vigee La Brun</a>. </div>
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Well off, crazy talented (both thanks to support from Daddy-o), and real hardworking - this chick painted for the French royalty right before the guillotine showed up. In fact Marie Antionette once canceled an appointment to just hang with EVB and even picked up her paints when EVB spilled them all! So when the revolution came, EVB and her kids (yup working mom here) peaced out for what she thought was going to be like 6 months tops but turns into 13 years! Don’t stress though, it all worked out okay for EVB and co. since she was able to just bounce and paint around all the royal courts in Europe. </div>
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Anyway here is her self portrait painted in 1800 when she was she was about 45. </div>
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So I went ahead and found an (oldish<span style="text-align: center;">) photo of me around 35ish and began my work. Here is the work in progress after the first pass using my newly named technique of<i> Fat over Local Glaze...</i></span></div>
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As a part of Colin Ferguson’s class at <a href="https://jtcc.edu/">John Tyler Community College</a>, I get to work on painting this little guy...(who BTW loves ice cream and the color blue)<br />
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It was actually a teacher demonstration example for my Longwood education majors in my Arts Integration class. The assignment was to select a SOL (Virginia Standard Of Learning) and make a video that teaches the concept to the age group you would like to teach. You can view their movies <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6LXyv16CqlTQGBldcRoEA/videos">here</a>, the films are so cute and several students said it was the most fun they had ever had with a school project. </div>
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the big apple to take classes at...<br />
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Was asked to step in last minute to come up with a team building art activity for a corporate retreat. So after running all over town to find cheap big canvases (thank you <a href="https://www.michaels.com/home?&mkwid=sxQfbNK40|pcrid|193432916104|pkw|michaels|pmt|e|pdv|c|prd|&cm_mmc=zadv_SearchBrand-_-google-_-B-Brand-Trademark-Head-E-_-Michaels&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInND2vtaR2AIVyI2zCh0iDQz4EAAYASAAEgI3GPD_BwE">Michael's</a>!)<br />
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This is what I came up with!<br />
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Got them going with some different application techniques (see the straw in the top half)</div>
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Once again, loving my connections that art makes!</div>
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This year it is tone vs. color, which is more important?</div>
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In conversation, most of us do not think of the skeleton of the person when we meet and chat with them. Usually we notice the way they are dressed and what they have to say (aka concept). But and here is the important part,<i> if there skeleton, muscles and skin were not in place functioning properly, the clothing and the jewelry would not matter. The dysfunction may overshadow the clothing or jewelry. </i><br />
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So that is why this post is just in time! I am filling in for a friend this semester. I am teaching some of her classes at <a href="http://www.longwood.edu/">Longwood University</a>. One class is close to my heart, Integrating Art into the General Curriculum, something I have been doing since before my students have been born! The other is a studio class where you can bet I will be thrilling them with the above new revelation of mine.</div>
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While I will probably not be changing my own style drastically, consciously copying these masters in either style, subject matter or palette has really helped me become much more aware of the choices I make as an artist, as well as appreciate their choices much more as well!</div>
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It especially helped me to both both canvases at the same time. I would take one object, paint it realistically then move to the other canvas and break and repaint it down cubist style.</div>
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Obviously these babies are still in progress...</div>
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These paintings certainly do not look like beginner level at all!<br />
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Click <a href="https://www.visarts.org/classes/?fwp_classes_dates=2017-04-07%2C&fwp_classes_instructors=kathy-calhoun">here</a> it see the schedule for our next class! Cluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246644745940091404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8227683637607284311.post-71034754149205891322017-02-09T09:16:00.000-08:002017-02-09T09:16:00.187-08:00Abstraction/Reality Part Deux!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So the art geek in me just cannot get enough of this looking waaaay up CLOSE to artwork and seeing the little abstractions in the BIG reality. I blame (or thank) both <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=chuch+close+portraits&espv=2&biw=1056&bih=661&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIp9Ly9vHRAhXpzIMKHX3NCFoQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=chuck+close+grid+portraits">Chuck Close</a> with his gridded portraits of the 90s (zoom in close on one and see what I mean) as well as digital photography...</div>
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Or is it? Really?</div>
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Art forgeries are not as bad as say, terrorism, famine, and catastrophic illness... I think we would all agree. While it does sham many out of millions, could this be just a large scale buyer beware situation?</div>
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In fact, if you do not personally invest huge wads of $$$$ into the art market, it may actually be kind of intriguing...this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNThEb4Lsts">Youtube video on the history of art forgery</a> sum it up quite nicely.</div>
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This article from NPR puts an fresh perspective on it for the little museum goers, like you and me...<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/11/14/245248970/how-to-love-a-fake">Signature vs. Architecture in paintings (and other forgeries).</a> I really wish NPR still had the comments section for this one, would love to hear the overall reception of it. It brings up a great point, should the average viewer really even care if it is a fake or not, should that come into play at all with the aesthetic interaction they are having with the piece right in front of them?</div>
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Happy Reading! And Pondering!</div>
Cluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246644745940091404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8227683637607284311.post-47267429084956647162017-01-31T17:33:00.000-08:002017-01-31T17:50:59.624-08:00In Reality, It Is ALL Abstract!<br />
And the scale! Take this warm/cool study I just finished...<br />
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Here is the whole image, and it is fairly realistic by my standards of viewing and style of painting...<br />
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24"x18"</div>
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And now at super hyper close-up....</div>
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...these images are standing on their own...</div>
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...but give a totally different feel</div>
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Try this the next time you see realistic large scale paintings, try to get as close as possible to see the abstractions...a wild way to interact with art!<br />
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