my poor redhead has been sick the last few days and not feeling up to much of anything. Saturday morning, he had a little energy, but I wanted to make sure he was still rested so he could go back to school today. he also had shown interest and asked about doing the studio part of my online art history class that started last week. so...this was our opportunity to work on it.
week's one assignment is fragmenting the picture plan. how cubist artists paved the way for collage in art. he helped set up our simple still life, watched one of the lecture videos and then we were back in the dining room with our charcoal, paints and mugs of hot caffeinated beverages.
we sketched. we turned the still life. we sketched a little more until we liked what we had. paint came out and off we went until it was time to break for lunch, showers and a little more Olympic event watching.
boo's view at our break
after some deep dish pizza, a quick geocache behind the restaurant, a stop for more paint and some more coffee, we were back to work on our paintings.
we finished up the paint part Saturday and let them dry completely. I had ideas of what i was adding for collage to my painting already, but wanted to see what the sunday paper brought us. what fun he had with all the sports sections and athletes being featured. instead of large pieces of collage, he has tons of tiny arms, eyes, beards and all attached in fun ways to his canvas. but that's for another post and picture. and for after my teacher critiques my work.
