Sunday, January 15, 2012

Workshop Day 3

On Wednesday, Carol painted a demo of eggs. 


This was her set up. 


This is her finished drawing.  Again, notice that she completed the ellipse outside the canvas.


This is the finished painting.  Not the best photo because I took it indoors with a flash.  The photo doesn't capture the wonderful glow of the golden shadows cast through the eggs.


After Carol's demo and lesson, she put us to work with some ten minute exercises.   A lot of us painted apples, which warmed under our lights, and soon the studio was filled with a wonderful apple fragrance. 


My first set of exercises I used too large a canvas, so for the second attempt, I taped off four inch squares on a canvas board.  Even at that size, I never had time to finish the background.  On my first apple I used white to try to capture the reflected light, and it looks rather pink.  Carol recommended I use yellow to lighten the apple, and I like that a lot better.   Here are my apples:

 


After lunch I was hating those apples, so I switched to lemons.  We were supposed to try to lay down a stroke without blending.  My first lemon is totally blended.  When Carol told me the second one still looked blended, I laughed and told her "that's my chunky".   I always have great plans to paint loose, but what comes out of my brain is something else.  





After Carol's beautiful egg painting, the next day we all switched to trying to paint eggs! 









22 comments:

  1. Thank you for posting during your workshop, I'm really enjoying them! Your color is great, keep up the good work and have fun!

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  2. Your learning from the best... lucky you

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  3. You did a fabulous job on all the fruit pieces. I especially love the color changes in your apples. Thanks again for sharing your workshop experience with the Amazing Carol Marine. Did you keep work from your first workshop to compare? Would love to see.

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    1. Julie, I did not keep my first paintings. They went into the recycle bin, and I reused the panels. Then those went in the trash!

      For this workshop, I switched to canvas sheets that I taped off into sections. I knew that these would just be for practice.

      Carol kept repeating that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a good painter. We figured that if you painted 4 hours a day every day of the year it would take almost seven years!

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  4. Oh I love seeing this. You had a great workshop. Thanks for posting your days. I took Carol's workshop in November and loved every minute of it.

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  5. Love your apples, Virginia! I think the 10 minute exercises are so good and make a great warm up. Well done!

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  6. Again thank you for posting and making those interesting comments on the workshop. I really, really enjoyed it :-)

    You definitely got a terrific glow on those apples.......lovely!!!

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  7. It was great meeting you! Keep up the great work! ~sue

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  8. I don't know what happened but I commented last night and it's not here ?
    Hopefully this time

    Thank you again Virginia for posting and marking those very interesting comments on the workshop . Very much appreciated!

    As for your apples they have such a lovely glow to them.....beautiful !

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  9. Very clear post on her process, thanks. It looks like you are having a fabulous week as well.You are doing wonderfully with that clear color and volume of the shapes!

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  10. De belles démonstrations... Merci pour ce généreux partage.
    Avec les oeufs peut-être une bonne omelette à déguster entre vous!...
    gros bisous

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    1. Martine says: "Beautiful demonstrations ... Thank you for this generous sharing.
      You can taste a good omelette with the eggs!....
      big kiss"

      Thank you so much, Martine!

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  11. Virginia, Thank you so much for posting these. I will never get to attend one of Carols workshops due to my work schedule but you take me there. Thanks

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    1. Angela, I took a week's vacation to take the first course from Carol. I am retired now, so the scheduling wasn't a problem. Getting in a class is hard, though, because they fill up so fast.

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  12. Great to see these photo's of the workshop - both the instructors and yours - very informative!

    However, I don't quite understand the set-up - what kind of canvas is she using? Is that duct tape, and is she just squaring of a section of stretched canvas? How does that work when the painting gets framed?

    I would be very grateful if you have the time to answer, if not, no worries.

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    1. Jane, Carol paints on 6 by 6 Ampersand hardboard panels. They have a slick surface, which she likes. She has a wood holder that fits her panels, and they frame the panel when she is painting. That allows her to draw off the edges.

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    2. Oh, thanks so much! Will look out for them when I get to America.

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  13. That is SO awesome. I so wish I could take a workshop from her. Carol come to Utah would ya??? ;)

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  14. about the loos ..thing me too!!! love it and the lessons as well

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