It's been not quite a week since the event and I still feel full with processing all of it. And in the midst of processing it all, I find it hard to report of the experience of it, I guess that will have to wait until it all settles. But I can say this much the time was full and rich and layered with meaning and silliness and love and I come back to the comfort of the familiar changed and in awe of the mystery behind it all.
I'm going to break it up into parts, talk a little with each part and show lots of photos. These photos are student work from the class I taught on Wednesday called Tales from the Land of Odd. We used images we were attracted to, from paintings and illustrators, to discover what elements moved us and to transfer those elements into our own artwork. Options ranged from combining elements of several works and our own imagination to sticking with one painting and painting our own version of that. I encouraged them to work on 3 paintings simultaneously and many of them did just that. What you see here are paintings in all stages from completed to still-in-progress.
I apologize for the blurriness in some of them and the colors not being exact - it's challenging to get good photos with the lighting and the shadows it cast but I did my best. I am so very proud of each of these women - they did amazing work! I will be creating a photo album on my sidebar in the next couple days to put them all into. Part II coming soon....
very Matisse, Modigliani, and Chagall like ;) lovely
Posted by: gina armfield | October 09, 2009 at 06:54 PM
What an amazing group you must've had...the first piece that you posted is really fantastic...
Posted by: Jennifer White | October 09, 2009 at 10:53 PM
So wonderful Katie, thank you for taking the time to post all these wonderful pieces of art.
I wish I could have taken that class from you, I love what everyone created. :)
Posted by: Tara | October 10, 2009 at 09:25 AM
i couldn tell what painting touche me more its awesome love it. they are very talented woman wow and as they have a great teacher.....it flows best
Posted by: alexandra castro ferreira | October 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM
each and every one is amazing... i am so blown away by what you pull out of your students and what they can create in just a day... beautiful! xoxoox
Posted by: misty | October 10, 2009 at 01:40 PM
It was wonderful seeing these pieces of art in person and now to see them on your blog!
Posted by: Dayna | October 10, 2009 at 04:43 PM
Those are all from your students? Impressive! It's hard to decide which one is my favorite, but I do like the movement and feeling I get from #30. I'm guessing #31 is not complete (no face), but I actually think it's good that way!
I enjoyed being in your Haiku painting class.
Suzanne
BlueSandStudio.blogspot.com
Posted by: Suzanne | October 12, 2009 at 02:41 AM
These are all so good! I loved looking at each and every one. I've been away for a week too, so I am just now catching up.
Posted by: katiejane | October 12, 2009 at 03:55 PM