15 September 2009




Course work: Did the exercise titled: Enlarging an Existing Drawing, page 30.



Reading:

Anne Classen Knutson, Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic

Rizzoli International Publications, New York 2005

Pp 107-119

[Comments regarding this book: A catalog of an exhibition by the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this book is especially notable for its large number of high-quality, full-page color plates. Most of the smaller figures in the text are also in color. The included essays are of interest, especially the one by Kathleen Foster, Meaning and Medium in Wyeth’s Art: Revisiting Groundhog Day, which deals with the artist’s thought processes and the multiple studies that he made while planning and executing a single painting. I now have a deeper insight into, and a greater appreciation of, the works of this artist, who died earlier this year.]



Other Activities: My painting group met this afternoon. My project for the day was a painting-knife sketch of the face of a glacier I recently saw in Alaska. Although the painting knife is an unfamiliar tool to me, I enjoyed the experiment, and the resulting sketch does look hard and cold.



Personal sketchbook work: Two views of a bunch of bananas in my A4 sketchbook.



Total time: About 1 ½ hours (not including painting group)