Simplifying the complicated

 My demo from class this morning.  I am showing some of the lead ups to the final too.  I approached this thinking of how to take a complicated subject matter and make it simple.
First...squinting I looked at the general design of the values and let that guide me in the big picture.  Then I roughed in the front figures to know they would fit.  Only then did I get into some more details.  It is not unlike the flowers from the last post...start with the simplest pattern of light and dark and then allow details to emerge.

Bouquet demo

One of my students brought in flowers for me to demo in oil class.   I started by squinting and seeing the big shadows shapes and the overall contour.  Then I roughed in the color fields.  Only after that did any specific flours emerge and only at the end did the few light highlights emerge.

Best Friends

This little 8 x 8 oil on board was my demo from class.  I explained how to design their gestures as one movement going from one to the other in order to design the space.  Doing each one separately might potentially cause them not to fit, or not to relate to each other and you might do a great job on one and then have to redo it to fit.

Art Muse Contest

https://www.facebook.com/artmusecontest/videos/1956776714572958/?comment_id=1956798774570752

Check it out...I hope it works for you...I am a finalist in the December Art Muse Contest.  This video is on Facebook and it shows all the winners and finalists.

Quechee Hill

8 x 10 oil demo "Quechee Hill"

Out my Window Winter

18 x 18 oil on canvas reflects the view out my window on sunny winter mornings

Video

Yesterday the local CATV in White River Junction, VT  did a video interview/demo for a program they have called "A Closer Look".  I now understand why actresses get plastic surgery.  But, deep breath, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC_UnQYxHLI&feature=youtu.be