NONOBJECTIVE - Day Two

Another sunny day and travelling was easy. The morning began with us continuing to do our 36 rectangles of colour. Small brushes did not bring the desired results so I tried a 3 inch flat and a large round. Maybe the results met the criteria. Certainly the dark was dominant but the rectangles not too interesting to me.

A demo. Lila mixed some black paint, dipped her large brush into the paint and made some dark marks on her paper, she added white, and pulled the paint down the page. She used different brushes for each value. Dripped paint. Brushed. Brushed again. Momentarily, she was done. Six to eight minutes per design is all it should take she said. 8 x 1/4 sheets, 4 x 1/2 sheets, and 2 large sheets were to be designed by us before 3 p.m.

Surely that could be done. Yes, by a few.

At lunch I ran out to Cdn Tire for some larger, softer brushes but that didn't really seem to be my problem after all.


Notes from the 3pm critique.
Colour should start from the side of the page and move in, no shape should start in the middle.
Some paintings can be cropped to make the design work. Nothing wrong with that.
Best not to have white paper on outer edge of paper
BOLD design is the goal
White shapes of paper should be dramatic too
Touch the edge of the paper
Textured areas may read as one shape
Darks must be really DARK
Best not to place squares, rectangles or triangles in the corners
Variation in values

It is amazing how exhausting this work is. By 2pm today I was ready to pack up my things and go home. I am not making a breakthrough yet. Feeling rather frustrated actually. A few did breakthrough and in fact, Lila said that one of the works done by Sarah was a prize winning painting. I can see the difference, just can't do it yet. No pictures today. Left at 4pm even though the critique was continuing. I could not.

Tomorrow will be more of the same only this time with colour. Our ordered brushes arrive in the morning we hope.

Picked up pizza and joined L & S on the deck for supper. Afterward, we went out for a boatride, slowly along the bays of the lake to the other end and then back toward D's property and one fast run to the other end again. Ooops! Something was wrong. The motor was roaring. The boat would not plane. There was water in the boat. Hot water! We went to a nearby dock and borrowed a paddle. The three of us began paddling home. Fortunately, someone took pity on us and came out with their little boat and offered to tow us back to the cottage.

Note to Marg: This was why the phone was busy....calls re fixing, taking boat out of water tomorrow, etc. Meanwhile, I will return to the college to try once again to 'get it' and 'paint it'.