NON-OBJECTIVE Aftermath

This morning I sorted through the painted papers I brought home from the past week's course and discovered one that with some cropping seems to meet the criteria. There are three paintings temporarily on the cottage walls. I do not want to forget all that was learned and their presence keeps me aware.

During the week, I painted on some cheap small canvases hoping to understand and apply what we were learning. The results were not exciting, in fact everything seemed to have the same value and the shapes were uninteresting.

Later, I painted over a few of the more promising ones and came up with the four best posted here. The computer makes them lighter and brighter than they are in reality and I consider them a study for future works on larger canvas.

At the college, there were not enough large tables for all of us. Down the middle of the room there were two rows of 3x4 ft tables and it was on one of these that I worked this week. We soon learned to move our tables away from each other and to turn our work to the vertical position. This gave a lot more room for our paints, brushes, etc and made it a bit easier. Here at the cottage, I had set up a card table for my work space and besides being wobbly it simply was not big enough. On the last day I went to Staples and got a 3x4 sturdy table which can be folded and stored out of the way when the room must serve as a bedroom for guests. My neatness disappeared and the paints line the window ledge. My plastic covered board sits in the vertical position but there would be space to place it in the horizontal as well. All set to go, except for covering everything including the floor, in plastic!

JUST PAINT!