August Update

After thinking, re-thinking, and over-thinking critical theory readings, I was able to summarize my thoughts to describes criteria for my new work in my Critical Theory I Summary. I began reading Landscape and Memory as well as Landscape and Western Art by Malcolm Andrews. Andrews delves into the "concerns" about landscape painting which I was introduced to during the June residency. Mentor, Jane Jones, has the experience to teach me transparent painting techniques. My entry was accepted into a show that opens next month at the Art Students' League of Denver, "Art on the River". I have taken on the challenge of not using photo references for some of my work. At first this felt like loosing an arm or trying to communicate in a foreign country...but it's the best way I know to "push myself" toward new possibilities! These are the types of work I will focus on this semester:
1. Plein air painting incorporating new points of view, new paint colors, and opaque palette knife techniques on small canvases
2. Experimental work based on landscape memories, using oils and graphite on gessoed water color paper. These are abstracted, blurry, vague images with memory as the only reference.
3. Layered oil paintings using photo references of places close to my home incorporating new paint colors and transparent techniques on larger canvases.
4. Miniature landscape still life painting created with a variety of the above techniques