Wednesday, May 27, 2015

landscape painting

Several classes have been experimenting with acrylic landscape paintings.

Two students tried their hand at an impressionistic inspired landscape, stressing using the brush more as a tool and not doing a lot of blending.

9 year old, flower meadow

9 year old, Misty mountainside

Aren't they pretty?

Then another student tried a Fauvist landscape. Kids love the idea of painting "wild beast" colors and really embrace this concept.  She also focused on creating a landscape from our very own city...which is really hard to do when you live in a city as beautiful as Vancouver. I mean, what to choose? There are so many options!

11 year old, Seawall

She did the seawall at Stanley Park with the skyline in the background.  I think it's awesome!

Then there's the teen class. Let me just say that creating art can be hard work, especially when the vision in your head is not translating on the paper. It is a challenge that every artist faces at one time or another, regardless of age and talent.

And it is easy to drop a project half finished when this happens. Unfortunately I think every artist at some point in the process feels this way, so it is also a very bad habit to develop. So with the threat of becoming the "mean" teacher, the last couple of weeks I have forced, yes forced, the artist to finish any work that has been put aside during the past months.

Including this landscape.

13 year old

She had a lovely background complete (the sky, trees, and far hillside) and then it sat.  She wasn't sure what she wanted to do next and just wasn't loving the work.  This past week, she completed the work with a cabin in front. 

I'd like to spend a weekend cozied up with a book in that cabin!

So three very different styles, but all with the same results.

Lovely.






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