Connecting the dots in no particular order - things happen in threes

11/3/2021

The lower pennisula of Michigan

Cutting paper. Lots of little paper at lightning speed and filling tiny spaces. Scanned, printed and collaged on top. It was really wonderful. So intuitive - and messy.
threepinesstudioandgallery.godaddysites.com/

Ken Kewley was the instructor with Clara as his assistant. We also built little stages based on one of our previous paintings so paint, cut and paste became 3D - It was like courses from college all over again.
kenkewley.com/
And the best place to see work from his workshops, past and present, is on his Instgram page.
www.instagram.com/ken_kewley_workshops

I did not follow instructions, and pulled from each of my 3 reference paintings, instead of recreating one of them, to create a mash-up of Hello Beautiful, Farmers Market and Afternoon Tea. A change in scale was the name of the game.

Next came Portuguese bread and lobster rolls

Off to Cape Cod to zero in on color with Mitchell Johnson. We worked on 18x24" which is big for me, but did all the mixing and painting with a tiny palette knife. I'm a convert. And to get my paintings home in a poster tube, I scraped the paint off which has the little grey cells thinking about scraping and adding on. www.castlehill.org/#intro-page
www.mitchelljohnson.com/ Mitchell and Castlehill are both on FB and Instagram.

Close to Home workshop was all about the greens and plein aire from the porch

And the warm up for all the workshops was actually online with Eve Mansdorf and Tim Kennedy and facilitated by Black Pond Studio. Lots of greens, scraping (!) and literally attaching painted panels to expand the view. Great discussions and citriques with artists from multiple time zones. The trifecta of workshops was a wonderful whirlwind and I'm glad I could do them all.
www.blackpondstudio.com/
www.blackpondstudio.com/past-workshops/1/6

And now connecting the dots a bit after the workshops and adding casein paint into the mix for the bottom two paintings. Always learning.

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