Still working

I am still working on this piece that I started a few weeks ago. I added the image of the Italian roof tiles int he bottom left corner & the image of the Colliseum.

After looking at it for awhile I decided I didn't like the colliseum image so I removed it. It is a transfer on sticky plastic so it was easy to remove.

I added the third key in red. Time to go think about this one. I know it still needs something, just not sure what.

Critique

A group of us get together occaisionally to critique each others work. We met Wednesday at The Station Gallery in Whitby. It's always a big help getting others opinions on our art but as we discovered on Wednesday, I think we get more out of the friendships. We have decided this is better, and cheaper than therapy. Some of the artists didn't even bring art to be critiqued. It's just wonderful to get together with others who understand the creative process (or lack thereof), who aren't afraid to laugh at ourselves, and to know that they are there as support if and when we need it.

New work

I have started a new piece. I started with a wood support

I then began to add colour

I than added more colour, some Japanese papers & some handmade papers.

I like where this is going, even though  I am not sure where that is. I'll have to decide what else to add, maybe more colour, not sure yet.

Critique

I really need to get more organized and start updating these blogs more. I took my 2 pieces to the critique, unfortunatly there was only time to critique one piece so I chose the one with the figure
John quite liked it the only comment he had was to increase the value of the white mark on the left side of the figure, so I will do that, sign it & it's done. Now to get back to work & finish some of the others that I am working on.

Critique tomorrow

Tomorrow, the Markham Group of Artists has their monthly meeting. We are having John Leonard come in to critique 1 or 2 paintings from each member. Here are the 2 I am taking, not sure if there will be time for both to be critiqued but at least one will be. Its always interesting to here what others think of my work, we will see if I agree with what he has to say.

Oops

Okay, I did something really stupid. In an earlier post I showed a painting that I was working on for a class I go to. The one that was started by another artist & I had to work on it. Well I finished it, took a picture & gave it back to Sally, the artist who's painting it was initially. And then I deleted the picture thinking I had uploaded it but of course I didn't. So now I can't show you what the finished work looked like. I can tell you I added some paper pages, some more colour, keeping some of the birds, & the buildings. Sally said she liked the final painting, of course I'm not sure she would have told me if she didn't like it, she's too nice. If I think about it I will try to get her to email me a picture of the finished piece. Meanwhile I wanted to show a couple of pictures of some silk scarves that my daughter has been painting, very beautiful.