RISD Materials & Techniques - week 4. Glazing. Still learning how this layer by layer process works, and yes the red pear (especially) is too saturated.
What a nice pair! Jimmy Page #1 and #2, and a Plexi and Hiwatt reissue.
Materials & Techniques week 3. The Dead Layer. This layer is close to finished, I just need to work on the reddish pear and blend it better and blend one of the cast shadows. Next week we will be glazing over this layer.
Materials and Techniques week 2. Bruno underpainting. This is painted in burnt umber only over an indian yellow imprimatura. I’ve no idea how this layer by layer renaissance painting process works yet, so I’m just following along and will learn as we go. (crappy iphone photo)
RISD Materials and Techniques week 1. Making a stretched canvas. You start with separate spacer bars that you assemble into the frame and then use a door jamb to form into shape. The pics explain the rest pretty well.
“ Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
— Christopher Morley
“ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
— Pablo Picasso
The kids started in the Young Artists winter program at RISD today. Matthew is doing Drawing and Catherine is doing Fashion Design. Mum and Dad start their RISD winter semester this week.
@PasticheRI tweeted; and we came.
Organic
“It was a group personality,” says Page. “I knew from what I’d learned being a session musician that the key was to capture the performance while there’s a mass enthusiasm going on, it becomes totally passionate, you feel the music. A lot of music today, they work electronically, tidying everything up, but that living energy has become sanitised. In Led Zeppelin we managed to do some of those major albums in three weeks. People today can’t understand that. It’s beyond them.”
