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Post date: Mar 29, 2014 8:48:15 PM
This is another choice based project and the class pretty much split up half and half-ish. Most of them picked hard-edge which was surprising considering I treat that one as like the hardest thing you can do. I would be alright at the tediousness of it, but I'd hate it all the way through. The Impressionistic paintings were just fine, most all of the hard edge paintings were fine. We had some problems with the painters tape I bought ripping the paper so I may have to go for a much weaker brand. Another thing I've seen recommended is prepping the tape with gel medium, so if we come into some money for a gallon of that I'd be up for trying it. If anyone knows where to get cheap acrylic medium that'd be great if you told me.
The whole point of this assignment of course was to explore a particular paint handling style. There is no set style, and usually style drives aesthetic and subject decisions so they're allowed to continue to explore various methods of application as they progress. And it was weird, most of my students just sort of picked against what I thought they would pick, and I found it surprising when they did well with the style I didn't think they'd do well with. I had few sloppier painters pick hard edge and do just fine with it. Others that I knew were control freaks I forced to paint in impressionism, and it was funny watching how they just couldn't let go of a singular stroke. They would be loose, but it was like a repetitive controlled loose, the same brushstroke all over. Funny from my perspective, absolutely lost on anyone who doesn't put their nose to the canvas and scan for minutes on end.
Color matching is next for this class and I'm excited to see how those turn out. Examples of the paint handling project below.
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