This is from the first day at this location. I added a few people and some clouds and brightened the sky

I added a little bird to mine :)

Here’s my finished work from Thursday. We had a good time, but missed you, Sam!

I wanted to capture the mist. So I started again with a limited palette

This Post/Thread is meant to write responses to our time with Lucas Block and is also a way to extend a thank you for his generosity. It is a way to continue the conversation we started. Feel free to respond here with any thoughts on the experience.

Hi all students in Outdoor Painting are now required to fill this waiver out and send/ drop off in school office.

Here's my painting from last week. I worked on the water to try to get the surface to show up over the darker water underneath. I also worked on the foreground rocks and made that "shadow" look more like the seaweed it was ;)

We will visit Jessica's Studio on 8/29/24 Thursday. Please see Carmel Art Associations website for more info on her work: https://carmelart.org/artist/jessica-bovert Jessica's Studio is in Carmel Valley a couple minutes from the village. Due to parking restrictions we will meet at the Running Iron P

Here are some of the pages from the book we looked at today.

https://goldenartistcolors.com/resources/color-mixing-with-8-curated-acrylic-colors

Please Bring a plant you would like to paint!

Intro to Painting Still Life Monochromatic

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Finished my painting from yesterday at home.

I finished this one, based on a composite of several vistas along Carmel Beach. Wanted to share it in class, but already gave it away to a friend :)

Great Class Yesterday! I have posted some paintings I thought of during the day :)

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First challenge was the wind

I did quite a bit more work on mine. I decreased the number of big waves concentrating on two, and color.

We will visit an artist studio from 10:30-11:30 on Thursday October 10th. Please RSVP with Artist Studio Visit in Subject Heading.

Here are some links to answer questions asked today regarding foreshortening in art. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamentation_of_Christ_(Mantegna) https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/start-here-apah/language-of-art-history-apah/v/what-is-foreshortening

This article relates to the color naming game we play in the beginning of the course. https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~rfutrell/teaching/itl-davis/readings/gibson2017color.pdf

Here are resources on the different whites and gesso I talked about last class :) https://goldenartistcolors.com/products/golden-artist-acrylics/gesso-grounds#:~:text=GOLDEN%20Gesso%20is%20designed%20to,to%20which%20paint%20can%20adhere. https://www.winsornewton.com/na/articles/colours/guide-to

Intro to Painting Diorama Collage Project Here is a clip from the project from the last Intro to Painting Class.

Here i Intro to Painting Blind Drawing s a clip from our last class.

Hi again, I think I’ll go to Lovers Point tomorrow morning 8/6, ~9:30, may be foggy? See anyone there who wants to paint or draw! Brita