Painting Workshop Pieces- With Galen Pittman

The last three days in STAC have been pretty much jammed packed with art. Today I have the joy to say that My “Native” painting is near completion! I must have gone through hell and back to get that painting to “work” again. I guess that last three days have been a matter of simply “doing” that contemplating. The paintings pictured below, including the Charcoal piece shown below are the pieces of which I created in the Painting workshop with Galen Pittman. This experience with Galen was a truly wonderful workshop. One main point that that Galen brought up was everything within a painting is intertwined. Everything in the figure leads to the next. The charcoal drawing was a preliminary drawing to test our skills. Although this was a preliminary drawing, gale assisted me in this piece as well. The idea of interconnected figures and light/dark contrasts that he spoke of aided in the process of creating the “see-through” effect on the bottle. The next day, I mostly applied the concept of contract between light and dark figures. I made sure to contrast lighter tones in colors by highlighting them with a white, while bordering it with a dark to contrast it and bring out the white’s natural tone. Gales Workshop was a wonderful experience for my technical aspect o painting. I hope to be part of workshops like this in the near future.