So, still going strong with DAPWYL! Still learning a lot, relishing the discussions in the classroom and making plenty of new art. This week was mostly about negative space and monoprinting, which is a technique using a glass or perspex sheet, watercolours and inks {in our case}. I did monoprinting at school but not in quite the same way. I LOVED it.
Here is some of the recent produce.
a chagall painting turned into a black and white copy as inspiration {i am newly obsessed with chagall now}
mapping out the first few colours on the glass
adding more colours
first print just after peeling off the glass and before going in with the inks
completed monoprint {my fave}
second monoprint: i did it from a photo instead of a painting so it came out kind of flatter, but i’m liking the texture
ugh! sickly person alert. third monoprint taken from one of the photos used when we were doing charcoal portraits. in the interest of not totally dissing my own work, it was a good exercise in mark making. but dear god i need some softer paint colours and to never do hair like that again.
The second set of prints used a slightly different technique, the process and outcome of which I didn’t enjoy as much ~ not so painterly ~ but it produced some interesting marks and textures.
channelling matisse i think here. used the wrong type of ink but still turned out ok.
using the right type of ink here. they came out paler because the doilies and meshes I was using were different thicknesses.
a close up of the best doily print
I’ve never learned so much in an online art class. The thing I love perhaps the most is how Pauline is using a kind of ‘connect the dots’ method, introducing us to lots of seemingly unconnected styles, methods and techniques, and then linking them together. It gives a completely new perspective on how to make art.
Thank you for sharing your work in this course … I am following Pauline now and ready to sign up the next time she offers this class
She will be most pleased! 🙂 {You won’t regret it.}
Seeing that I am hitting pause on taking ANY more online courses (merely because my mind and creative soul is saturated), it says a lot that this is the only one that is still on the list. Something in me is saying a huge YES to this.
I understand that feeling. I keep saying no more and then, oh, well I HAVE to do this one. But DAPWYL has turned out to be the best whim based decision yet!
Tara, thanks for share, this. I am so glad to follow to, fell not as good as you, but i have learn so much, from pauline, and are very content. I love this course
Thank you so much for coming by Hanne! I agree, we are learning so much, and it makes all the difference to have such a wonderful group too. 🙂
Hi Tara,
So interesting to read and see this process. I understand what you’re saying in the “sickly person alert”, but I honestly found it a captivating and strong piece of Art. I have read of your love for the sea, a Piscean mermaid, and I think the portrait has captured the mermaid underlying the human presence. Hair is great! Seaweed? Feathers? Space for the senses to imagine.
Thanks for sharing, Mairim
Thank you for the kind words Mairim! I am definitely seeing a kind of underwater look there now you’ve pointed it out. 🙂