Course work: I started Stage One of Project Two by again reviewing the work to date. Stage Two of Project Two was initiated by deciding to work on 45.7 x 61 cm paper. I decided to rearrange the folds in my still-life drapery and to change to a horizontal format with somewhat altered lighting. Work on Stage Three commenced when I mixed and applied the first coat of a color approximating the average background color.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Continuing the theoretical work on P. 93 of the text, I did a small colored pencil sketch (p. 47 in sketchbook) of Albert Bierstadt’s Sunset. Bierstadt (and the others in the Hudson River School) typically used heightened color and strong contrasts to create the effect that they desired.
Victoria Finlay Color
Ballantine Books, New York, 2002
Pp. 108-134
E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford 1978
Pp. 167-201
Sketchbook work: One of the cats, heavily asleep.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: My work this week has been compromised by several days of dangerously unstable weather, and by the myriad of things one must do to prepare for an extended trip (everything from moving hay to patching leaks in the tack shed). I finally completed Project One to my reasonable satisfaction. Sketchbook work has been fair. Reading has not been quite as good as last week, but fell within acceptable limits.
Time today: Two hours 13 minutes (18h27m)
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