Current St. Lawrence Art Class

All fall I have been taking an amazing art class at St. Lawrence College with Andrea Mossop.

We are morphing ideas, words, inspiration and taking them to a totally different places. A journey that can give you can give you unexpected, fun, and amazing results. It is very liberating to start working with no plan in your head for where you need to end up.

This is my process for the final project.

1. A pic of some fuchsia's from my back yard which I have wanted to paint for a while.

 2. A black and white print so I can look at the values.

3. A drawing in my sketchbook. I  used the same drawing to make a grid for enlargement to use later on in this process. Waste not, want not. My quilting frugality is still with me.

4. A black and white study with watercolour.

 5. A colour study with watercolour.

6. and 7 are photocopies of the two above. I need to be able to cut them up and rearrange them.

8. One of my patched up pieces, it certainly becomes more interesting.

9. Another version, a mixture of black and white, now the possibilities are endless.

10. Small sketch gridded for an enlargement.

11. The large sketch.

12. Another play with watercolours, only two colours, black and lime green. Then when my neighbours at class were looking at it, it was suggested that I look at it upside down. MMM!!!!! this is where I want to go.

13. Go big or go home, another enlargement. 

14. Some background treatments. Oh those squares are back.

15. Final practice before the main event. It will finish at 18 x 24 in.

This is it for now, I need to paint the real one, it will take a week or so, but it will be posted when the painting is complete. I love this process, it has freed me up to be myself and creating is fun once again.