Where are you at?

As we approach mid-term please take some time to reflect on your experience in the course up to this point by answering the three questions listed below. 

Be sure to use SPECIFIC examples form your paintings or your experiences in class to support your ideas.

What has been the most challenging aspect of the course so far?

In what areas have you progressed the most and how have you progressed?

How does looking at examples of painting from throughout history affect us as painters today?

This is week 6.

Most of you will be starting the Texture and Surface painting this week. This is an opportunity to work more independently. You will be arranging your own still life somewhere in the room and focusing on techniques that will allow you to create the illusion of different types of surfaces (reflective, transparent, shiny, matte, etc.) and different types of textures (fuzzy, rough, smooth, etc.).

By the end of the week you should have your set-up in place, have completed your thumbnail sketches and posted them to your blog, and started to work on the painting itself. Many of you will also need to make a plan for finishing the White Objects Painting by the end of next week.

Over the long weekend spend some time making sure your blog is up-to-date and doing the homework due on Monday. I will be writing mid-term progress reports next week.