Healing Art

For project #2 from UCLA abstract painting class, we started with an exercise in class taking turns repeating marks made by another student. For our painting, we were to use one stroke gestures or marks and also consider using motifs or patterns. My main thought while painting was to use strokes in different sizes, wiping [...]

9/21/10 Spur of the moment abstract art class was good last night. Layer 3 looks done but I kept painting. Notes from class: flat planes that overlap value, interlocking, come up in stages, same depth, contrast, edges, relationships between forms, edges: sharp or painterly, balance, sense of gravity, look for opportunities to define a space [...]

8/18/10 There are three people in this painting: two in the background, one in the foreground. It represents people talking behind another person’s back. Someone in my life recently confronted me about what another person said. I was misquoted and that completely changed the meaning of my words. Even when I explained myself, she took [...]

8/14/10 Started this painting with a light pink and green base. The words Rose Angel came to mind. It’s perfect weather here: a slight cool breeze, enough to wear a sweatshirt. I hear a new bird chirping interrupted by the truck beeping, airplane flying overhead, car whizzing by followed by a motorcycle. Then I hear [...]