(I'm still hoping for my Italy trip this year...so I'm sending out Italian Painting Terms for the Quiz questions !!!).

Quiz:  What is the term used to describe a figure in a painting in which the body and legs are twisted so that they're in different planes?

__Contrapposotional.

__Contrapposto.

__Contrapuntal.

__Contrarious.

Views: 2,125....from...USA, Mexico, Brazil, Serbia and Russia.

Art Work:

More art work to enjoy.....

Colette:

                                                           Watercolor and Pen

Kathy:

                                                               Watercolor

Diana:

                                                                      Watercolor
 Thanks for sharing.

Artwork:

Below are three different portraits, using different techniques. I wish I had gotten photos of all the artwork from this assignment....they were wonderful.

The first two Portraits.....Contour drawing is a quick drawing where you look at your subject and not your paper, you never lift your pencil...so there are connecting lines one is not accustom to. The point is to draw what you see, not what you think the subject looks like and to bring in personality.

Byrnie: 
This assignment was to draw yourself with a contour drawing and then paint with two colors only in watercolor with tons of water and be abstract. This painting came out just the way I had envisioned the assignment. It is so wonderful. Thank you, Byrnie, for your years of experience and know how.

Stephanie: 
Again...what a wonderful painting. Thanks.

Diana:
This is from the Complementary Color Challenge of using Blue and Orange. Diana said she wasn't happy with her painting...but I think it has so much personality and the mystery of what is she looking at? I don't think she has done many portraits, but she did so well. Thanks you, Diana. 

Views: ...2027...USA, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy & South Korea.

Art Challenge:

The Intermediate Class decided to paint using a Complemenary Color Scheme of Blue & Orange. We select the challenge during the first day of class and 5 weeks later on the last class we have a gallery showing of their artwork. Some work on it during class while others paint it at home.

Karen:

Stephanie: 

Colette:

Jean:

Bonnie:

Quiz: What is the term derived from the Italian for a sculpture that sticks out slightly from the surface it is carved from, but is not completely detached from it?
Answer: bas-relief.

Views:...1991...USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and South Korea.

Pick your words wisely:
As an art instructor, I have a statement I always refrain  myself from saying to students. It sounds sort of snobbish and could really discourage others. However, it seem to fit for my last Abstract Workshop....so I said it. Sometimes, I feel like saying it when I see a great student not put that "Emotion or Pre-Thought" into their artwork (but that is my stuff and not always needed to be passed along).  However, it just needed to be said when dealing with Abstract...all that emotion and all. That statement goes...

"There are Artist and there are Painters".  
One isn't especially better than the other...they are different breeds and neither are purebreds. I paint to keep my skills up, but I create for my artists within. 

I realize...the "Artist" stage may come along later in the career...when one decides that there could be more an artist is suppose to do than maybe paint a painting....but I also realize that it isn't necessary to be great at artwork. It is just a stage, a thought, an emotion or a need that some develop along the way. An Artist can change minds, show the climate of the times, be a guide, teach, make viewers see and do....besides being enjoyed and viewed. Some artist excite, shock, enrage, question, please and stimulate with their art. 

May all your art be satisfying for you and all others that view it. Keep art in your life.

Thanks for listening.

Quiz: 
What is the term derived from the Italian for a sculpture that sticks out slightly from the surface it is carved from, but is not completely detached from it?
Views: 1976 ....USA, Russia, Germany & United Kingdom.

Abstract....the "A" Word.

Abstract Art...Non-Representational Class. I taught the 2nd Abstract Workshop yesterday. I, personally, was very excited in presenting it, as this was the one time I felt I could truly present the "emotional artist within concept". Abstract is so reliant on Emotion and Composition...not that all art isn't...but they are the backbone for Abstract.

The class lent itself to times of raw emotion story-telling....which perhaps made for some uncomfortable times.  All in the class were troopers. There were a few students that I felt might have been uncomfortable or not ready for Abstract or for whatever individual reason. I do hope all received the necessary lessons that Abstract Art gives.

There was one project that everyone...I do mean everyone...of the students painted with such actuate results from the lesson given. One student was brought to tears, as I. I would have loved to have photos of each one to show on this blog...but they were so personal, I didn't feel like I should move in on them by asking permission to post their art.

Expression through Art is a wonderful thing...Art is Therapy.

Thank you, Abstract Art Students.