Wednesday 4 May 2011

Course work: Painted the cedar tree on the left side of the window.  Some trial sketches done on a digital image of the work to date lead me to think that adding the pecan trees on the right would make the overall composition too busy.

Reading and theoretical studies:

Further investigation into Matisse’s  Fauvist period.

Timothy Hyman Bonnard

Thames and Hudson, London, 1998

Pp. 181-213

(This is a readable book; it would have been improved my more color illustrations…how can one appreciate one of the great colorists with black and white images? ) Timothy Hyman Bonnard

Thames and Hudson, London, 1998

Pp. 151-179

Sketchbook work: Two pages of compositional studies using three eggs of slightly varied size and shape.  I think the first and last are the most interesting; the third could be improved by reversing one egg and correcting the problem with shadow tangency.  An interesting exercise that came to me in half-sleep, perhaps as a residual influence of Terry Frost.