Kaleigh Bennett

Fall 2020 Painting Class 

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END OF TERM SHOWCASE

For the second half of the semester, we worked on 4 different projects.

Colour Wheel and Albers Colour Mixing. This assignment was fun and a great interlude into the second half of the class. I am still in shock over the Albers exercises. I did the 2 appears as 1 (yellow) and 1 appears as 2 (red) on one canvas. I then did the ugly colour combination. My colour wheel came out great and was a great reminder of colour mixing, in my opinion.

Warm and Cool Colour Painting. This painting was fun but also a little unsettling. My original colour scheme wasn’t my favourite. BUT I did realize something just look at the two versions again. The purple Medusa appears farther away than the green Medusa. I don’t think I changed their sizes much but I went from a warmer colour to a cooler colour. I like both version but I think my eyes appreciate the yellow/green Medusa more than the purple Medusa.

Abstract Discordant Painting. This painting didn’t come out how I imaged and that is okay. Discords was easy when it was on a small scale just mixing enough to test the discord quality. Mixing discords on a larger scale is honestly the hardest or one of the harder things we did this semester. Once I got out of my head, this painting was less stressful and I got at least one true discord set of colours.

Reverse Plexi Painting. This is my favourite project from the second half of the class. I honestly finished this painting in less than 24 hours over the course of 3-4 days. That’s kind of how excited I got. But I would stay up back 1am and it kind of messed up my sleep patterns. I would painting in reverse on plexiglass again but I would have to get a better handle on creating thin lines with paint brushes. (Really struggled to get a good picture of this! After multiple attempts, I think these are the best three that shows the painting the best!)

[chelseadowney]

Holy shit! Your plexi painting is incredible. Love all of the different elements combined here that you tied together so well. Great job on everything ☺️

[speedygardencreator]

Theres so many little details in your plexi painting. How’d you do that?? Also how’d you get the color to block soooo clean. Im really bad with the strokes.. Anyways you had a successful semester of great paintings! Hope to see you on other classes

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Transparent painting

Oil painting is a lil weird. I can't believe I just did this one last night. it was cool only using greens Really showed how many colors you can get from one color!

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Plexi painting

this one was coooool. I decided to do some funky beer taps because they've been protected by plexi for all of my jobs.... I feel like my beer taps look like birds But oh well. It was fun to paint. My actual taps are still a bit transparent but I do like how they came out

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Drapery painting-finally finished

Ok so I really wasn't happy with this one when it was black and white....but the glaze was such a game changer! I love that glaze stuff I want to make sooo many cool transparent shapes with them I love it. the rest of the glazing medium is going to go to goooood use.

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more on my art books instagram page

Barbara Kruger - Love for Sale 

Barbara Kruger, Kate Linker, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st edition hardcover, 1990.

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Discord painting

so here me mixing to get the same tonal value exercise. And I think I got it with these muddy colors...

so anyways I then did the discord painting. I think I suck at using tape but... the colors make sense when it comes to tonal value I think

collage of shapes on left painting on right in grayscale if it isnt obvious... I messed up on the right and added a purple that was wayyyyy to dark but oh well. 🙃.

Here's the final and a progress photo I took last night :). I tried. kind of not satisfied though

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S E P A R A T I O N

One thing Ive witnessed during the pandemic is that plexiglass and propane are HIGH DEMAND. For the plexiglass painting, the first thought has been working at restaurants. I work in a restaurant where there is plexiglass surrounding tables that are less than 6ft apart. In the beginning of the reopening of restaurants, plexiglass was backordered by 3-6 weeks. Management being desperate, they surrounded a host stand with old plastic from the kitchen. 

Plexi being a regulation to separate people..I think the most interesting would be the glass surrounding the cocktail stations..it sets a stage for the bartenders making drinks. Gives me like aquarium or zoo vibes. I think I’ll paint something to do with the plexi on the bar...

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Discord Colors  in process

I use transparent green as my background color. The main object is an abstract giraffe. However the work is unfinished, and I am thinking about how to make the whole painting more interesting. I mean just a giraffe in the center of the painting is odd.

[speedygardencreator]

Nice motion with this one! It looks similar to a neon sign

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Abstract Paper Collage.

I remember making my first collage in like elementary school, I think. It was blue and green with a theme of the ocean. Why? Well because when I was younger, I wanted to be a Marine Biologist.

Anyway, here at the 4 collages I did with the same shapes. Still trying to decide which one is the keeper!

Option 1: “Mrs. Officer”

Option 2: “Diamond in the Rough”

Option 3: “Inspector Gadget”

Option 4: “Mythical Fantasy”

[annasfall2020painting]

I am enjoying the titles! 

I think they’re all working well, perhaps the 1st three are working best? Its subjective though, go with your intuition

[speedygardencreator]

This one is coooool. option 2 & 4 are my favs. Option 1 & 3 look like little mushroom guys!

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Collage

I just went in and did whatever subconsciousl. I used the big triangle to creat some heavy weight on one end and circles to balance it out I tried to connect it all with the lines. I tried to create a weird overlapping effect to the right with the circles, so it looks like they're going forward.

THATS IT!

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Josef Albers & Color Interaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IKPGL6403I&ab_channel=LabDesign

I've decided to do some research on Josef Albers and his studies in Interaction of Color. I really needed this because of my new apartment with blank white walls and SO MUCH mismatched furniture, its driving me crazy having no unity.

But to get back to color, Josef Alber's Interaction of Color book show his studies. There so much to color, with the study above it shows how the color morph together with each other. The gray one is much easier to understand because the strength of the gray rectangles decreases, when the colors morph they create a lighter gray. I just remember picking out colors for my parents house's walls and how many different colors of green to choose from. Its Hard! The book makes you think of many questions. How do those colors mesh like that?

A Quote From Josef Albers

“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.“

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Bridget Riley- Artist Research

For my research post last week, I picked Bridget Riley an English painter who is most know for her optical paintings. However, I really like her Hard-edge  paintings above where she color blocks these funky shapes and colors that contrast with each other. I love the last one with the white space and how it looks like its attached to the walls. most of the hard-edge paintings are more of her more recent works ranging from the 90′s to the early 2000′s. She’s 89 years young and has gotten a lot of recognition for her works later in life around the early 2000s to now, getting many awards for her Op-Art. Her work is in around 20 public galleries, one being in MoMa. :)

A Quote from Bridget Riley 

“Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.“

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Exercise week -11/16

Collage!! Here’s my collage for the painting we’ll be doing next week!

I was going to add new pieces but I removed the last two pieces at the bottom right because it felt a bit to much ;v;

Here’s my piece in black and white!!

[speedygardencreator]

I like the contrasting color choice and overlap. Cool stuff 

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Research: Carlos Cruz-Diez

For this week I’ve chosen to research Carlos Cruz-Diez who was a Venezuelan artist. Cruz-Diez was recognized as being one of the key 20th century thinkers on the realm of color as he worked with the perception of color as an autonomous reality evolving in space and time, without support or form. His work focused on color relationships similar to what we’ve done in the exercises. In many of his works we can see lines of contrasting color creating a feel of movement. Cruz-Diez taught at The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and then was the director of art for the Institute for Advanced Studies in Caracas, Venezuela. He passed away July 27, 2019. I decided to research him as his work was very intriguing and also similar to the works of artists mentioned on the powerpoint. We can see how the colors work alongside one another to sort of trick the viewers perception of the colors and how they look with each other in the pieces. He did create these relationships between colors successfully not only in painting but in physical works with installations. These are just some of his works which I found awesome and wish I could see in person! I’ll also attach an article the NYT wrote about him after his death. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/obituaries/carlos-cruz-diez-dead.html

[speedygardencreator]

Thats some cool color! I like the 4th pic ture with the room and the hanging cubes. Those colors are so SICK. 

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Heres the warm-cool painting i started. It. needs a lot of work I ws trying to get some of the color down for the painting first but the guy needs some structural help and im not too happy with the colors of him or the scripture. Ill try and change around some of the colorings. Also the star map needs stronger lines. IDK 

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Here was the difference painting exercises I did last week to show color relations. Thanks! 

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Here was the assignment for week 9 that I did last week. Forgot to post!