M.E. BAILEY ART: Painting Binge

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Here you will find adventures in painting. . . . Victories, absolute defeats, frustrations, highs, lows, lessons learned, commentary and thoughts from me and other artists.

As an art instructor, I don't wish to hide the fact that I crash and burn often. I will always be learning. So, it all gets shown here . . .good and bad. Every painting we do counts in the learning and experience process. The failures actually are much better teachers than successes. Every piece made is a teacher. That's the fun of it: the challenge to learn.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Painting Binge

"Slide"

Watercolor 15 x 22 inches

Yesterday, I opened a can of "crazy" in my studio. I must have soaked it all up, because I went nutz! Painted three finished paintings before 5PM.

As I said in yesterday's post, I had sooo much fun!

This is the first of three paintings . . . .actually, more . . .because I did 2 more today! (yes, I am bingeing).

After a week long workshop and harping at the participants about sizes and good shape design, all that stuff was ever present in my mind as I painted these. Beyond seeing rocks and trees, look for the shape of the light value (not just the white ) and how that shape connects to all four sides in the shape of an upside down Tee. Big compositional shapes are what makes paintings strong and bold . . . .and sets up a dominance which leads to unity.

Okay, enough preaching. There are more to see in other posts.

Meanwhile, I am still on a painting binge.