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Showing posts with label landscape painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape painting. Show all posts

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Artiscape! "Landscape of Memory"



I had so much delight in teaching this class, "Landscape of Memory" to a large group at Artiscape in Dublin Ohio, sponsored by European Papers and organized by the amazing Lisa Ohmer. The "assignment" in class was to paint abstract landscapes inspired by photographs or the imagination. 

It isn't always easy to abstract from a photo or from an image in one's mind. You have to think about what the most important elements are, what time of day it is, what mood you want to express. This group did wonderfully and were brave and bold in their experiments. 

I'm posting a lot of pictures here, but I hope you will take a look at all of them. I'm impressed by the quality of the work and fascinated by all the different ways students used their palette knives, acrylic paint, and mediums to create dreamy landscapes!














































































Thursday, April 18, 2013

Magical Landscapes from Art and Soul

Before I head off to Art and Soul in Virginia Beach, I want to share some of the lovely landscapes my students made in "Landscapes of Dreams" at Art and Soul in Excelsior Springs MO. These were all done with painting knives on acrylics. Students loved the freedom the knives gave them to paint boldly.