Painting Class #2

Whenever I get all confident and puffed up, I inevitably get knocked down a level. It's good for me.

I was feeling really, really good about getting into this painting class. I was feeling REALLY good after last monday's Figure Drawing class.

So, it was completely appropriate for me to produce something like this in a 10 minute painting exercise:

I guess I should have painted more this summer. I was making stupid mistakes. It's all good, though. I need this. Like I said in my last post. I need to struggle- I need to do a lot of really awful paintings and drawings. I need criticism. I need to make huge mistakes and be told how to deal with them by someone with experience.

So, it was good.

We also watched a video on 20th Century Art which I found fascinating. I haven't taken ANY Art History, and really know nothing about any of it. I ate it up. We have an assignment to pick one of the movements mentioned in the video and write a bit about it. I'm going to talk about Surrealism, as it completely enthralls me. A close second was a section of the video about feminist art. I don't respond much to the particular art in the video, but I do appreciate seeing women used in art in a way that is NOT idealized or objectified.

Here's the last painting I did yesterday. It's a bit of a muddy mess, but, it's work. I learn every time I pick up a brush.