Sunday 27 February 2011
Course work: Continuing work on Project Three. Today I put a dark wash over my background to push it further into the background, and lightened the table upon which my plant it sitting to help bring it forward. I made a few other color adjustments as well.
Reading and theoretical studies:
E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford 1978
Pp. 325-341
Sketchbook work: A pile of small cardboard boxes, almost a “found” piece, requiring only offsetting the boxes to be a sketchable subject.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: I missed three days of work this week because of a distant doctor’s appointment followed by ongoing travel to visit relatives. My effort for the days I was home was fairly satisfactory. I continue to struggle with the peculiarities of acrylics: each time I think that I have gained a little ground I discover a new and more complex problem, correctable only by painting over with opaque paint and starting afresh. This week’s museum visit allowed me to see original work by several fin-de-siècle and early 20th-century artists; I am always surprised by how different the original work seems from book illustrations and computer images.
Time today: 1 hour 43 minutes
