Here’s what our artists have to share from the past month.
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Wendell Fiock
“Nine Lives of a Thousand Tales.”
Collage
11x14
Created from a cutout laid over strips of magazine paper then cutout spattered with acrylic paint.
Julie Cline
I’m trying to remember how to paint in acrylic. I started with a picture of a huge outcropping of rocks, I saw on a recent trip I took.
First I underpainted in orange and used a palette knife to shape the rocks. I added the sky and some color for the foreground.
I used the palette knife to add more color to the rocks and shadow and highlights. I had a problem right in the middle with the highlighted rocks distracting from the rest of the picture.
I resolved the problem in the middle of the picture and continued to add paint on the rocks with my palette knife. I added some blue reflection of the sky in the rocks, and some vegetation in the foreground plus a path to make it interesting. I also had planned that the four corners of the painting be different to add to the interest. Claire Verbiest told me to do that a long time ago.
Rumi Ghosh
“The Refuge”
Oil on Canvas, 11in x 14in
Inspired by my photographs of Monterey Bay, this painting shows two small birds perched on a rock, facing each other as if in quiet conversation. I made the sea rough and the surrounding rocks jagged to suggest hostility, while the small island becomes a calm, intimate refuge within it.