Tears on Monday, because our class of 20 years has come to an end. If I hadn't 'clicked' with Marion, the teacher, I probably wouldn't have still been painting. This wasn't a follow my lead/demo type of class, but a gentle persuasion type of guiding class. Marion has the most brilliant eye for colour, tone etc etc, just as a good teacher should. She gave me so much and changed my life.
However, Marion does like her abstracts and I have tried over the years and given up or rebelled or whinged. As I knew the class was approaching it's end I decided to be a good little girl and do some abstract (but I still whinged). The idea was to use in your face colours, no white (last one there was white - naughty me). (3 in your face colours)
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| Just plain squares the orange original pink but painted over with orange complimentary colour to blue |
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| Tuscan hillside,sort of |
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| I've called this Spot the Rabbit |
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| The final painting. Entitled Viola! Painted over Gesso (a la Jane Minter) then scaped over the top with sandpaper to bring back the white and the words stencilled in. There you are! |
We are all still keeping in touch occasionally by the way. Marion is going to critique what we have been doing on our own. Oh, and we will be having wine and food too, sounds good to me.
Thank you Marion and my lovely Arty Farty Friends for all these fun filled but educational classes.
