Painting 1, Spring 2019

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Ad Reinhardt - black monochrome

Among other reasons why this little vid is great, they give info about how he achieved his ultra matte paint surface

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Angela Brennan.

Between Glenn Ligon’s ‘Blue Black’ series and Angela Brennan’s expressive typography/painting and color-blocking, I DONT KNOW WHAT IM GOING TO DO! 😂😂😂

02/26/19

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Chromatic black. This lesson the class made a monochromatic painting, after Ad Reinhardt. Who would have thought that mid primary yellow, blue and red, would mix to make black?

We found we had to make a compromise - adding more blue and red made the ‘black’ darker, but also cooler and tending toward violet. To make the temperature of the black neutral, yellow needed to be boosted, but this would make the black lighter (yellow being the lightest colour in the colour wheel)

We also noticed glossy mediums made the blacks deeper and ‘blacker’, but reflected bright highlights, and matte mediums made the black even and absorb light, but the black seemed lighter overall

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Monochromatic painting took place today. Me mixed the three primary colors (red/blue/yellow) to blend a brown , We all individually painted a portion of the canvas , using different textures to create one masterpiece.

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Chromatic Black

Today we did an activity where we attempted to create black by mixing the primary colors red, blue, and yellow. For me, I kept getting my black to be more blue, so I kept having to add more and more red until it was finally a good enough black.

Then, taking inspiration from Ad Reinhardt’s paintings, we created our own 4x4 grid painting using everyone’s different chromatic blacks and different textures.

This was my chromatic black and I added a mat finish to it.

This is the class’ completed Ad Reinhardt-inspired painting.

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Today’s lecture consisted of the “scumble” method. It was trial and error all class, but eventually I got the hang of it. Still a work in progress.

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Process of Tonal Painting 2

For this painting, we used white to mix with the burnt umber to create a range of different tonal paints to use through the painting.

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Process of Tonal Painting 1

In this painting, we set a mid tone of burnt umber on the entire canvas and added more paint to the darker areas and wiped away the paint on the lighter areas.

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‘Blue Black’ in St. Louis

By Glen Ligon

identity, power and race

Trauma in generational Black families

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/acclaimed-artist-curator-glenn-ligon-discusses-blue-black-and-starting-dialogue-st-louis#stream/0

Acclaimed artist, curator Glenn Ligon discusses ‘Blue Black’ and starting a dialogue in St. Louis

Fifty-four works. Forty-two artists. A meditation on the colors blue and black. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation ’s current leading exhibition

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Great example from yasmine of an artist using text in their work. Notice the letters in AMERICA read backwards. What meaning can this convey? Could you consider legibility in your Word model?

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Artists that make paintings from models... (aka maquette, diorama)

David Eastwood

David has been making paintings of models he has carefully constructed of artists studios - Giorgio Morando and Francis Bacon.

Why do this?

“His interest in the artist’s studio is as a space where invention and imagination happens and the way this idea is mythologised.

The artist has produced a model of Morandi’s studio that is one fifteenth its actual size. He hasn’t visited the space, which isn’t the point. Working from a distance preserves an element of Eastwood’s own imagination. And interestingly, Morandi’s studio is in fact a posthumously reconstructed one. In this sense, it is a model itself.

Small spaces such as the one Eastwood has made are akin to dollhouses – a space which can’t be entered, but is nevertheless somewhere we are drawn into by our ability to take a peek as we would through a keyhole. This seductive quality is just one thing that makes these spaces so irresistible.” Carrie Miller, The Art Life

Excellent video here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjkCdwmhr98

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Pictures I found online of other people making models inspired by Ed Ruscha’s ribbon word drawings

Remember you’ll make this in nice Canson Mi Tientes (or similar) coloured paper.

Make the background very large - it doesn’t hurt to have excess, but if you have too little it will be limiting. If you have a larger backgound you have an option to zoom right out. 

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Artists painting from models

Kylie Banyard

(sorry for low dpi on second pic)

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(Sort of) Achromatic Paintings

In class, we went over the achromatic scale and tone and how to make a painting with this in mind using only one color. While it technically isn’t achromatic since we used burnt umber instead of black, the same process applied when working on this set of paintings.

We worked on trying to recreate a painting in two different ways, the first being by laying down a mid tone of burnt umber and adding more to make certain parts darker and wiping away any paint to make sections lighter, and the second painting was creating by mixing burnt umber with titanium white to create a range of tonal paints to use.

Only using burnt umber and wiping away some paint to create lighter areas

Using burnt umber and white to create a range of tones

Personally, I had more fun and an easier time with the first painting than the second one. It felt like it was harder to make the tones blend when using white in the painting, but I’m sure that’s just because I’m still kinda stinky at painting.

[annas2019painting]

Not stinky at painting at all! An incredible sense of light captured in your first tonal painting. Hard to achieve with opaque paint, it really requires the nuance (which is just easier with the subtracting method)

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The first chromatic black I mixed had a strong blue undertone. Professor suggested I mix the complement of blue (orange) to make it a mid-tone black.

😩😩😩I love blue. I guess green black is cool too.

[annas2019painting]

Great post!! Sorry you liked the blue better ha! Plenty of more exercises for blue :)

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My thoughts on this activity is that mixing black is way harder than it seems. It’s a lot of mixing and changing too. If one mix tends to be for green for example, you need to add either a warm or cool red to give it a different color of black. You also need to take in account what texture will showcase the color the best.

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To come up with various words for your painting, think about using chance or the Cut Up Method

“Developed by Burroughs and painter Brion Gysin, this literary take on the collage technique used by avant-garde artists like Georges Braque originated with Surrealist Tristan Tzara, who “proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat.”

How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique

The inner critic creates writer’s block and stifles adventurous writing, hems it in with safe clichés and overthinking.

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Eve Fowler Breaths New Life into Stein's Poetry by Harriet Staff

Los Angeles art and poetry aficionados have a unique opportunity to view Gertrude Stein's poetry reimagined as advertising billboards. Eve

Eve Fowler