8thwonder: Speed Figure Paintings

"The work of the artist is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone but alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life. You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is actually wanting to do a specific thing. Wanting it so much you are practically blind to all other things, so that nothing else will satisfy you. There is reason for you to give this statement some of your best thought. You may find that this is just what is the matter with most of the people in the world; that few are really wanting what they think they want and that most people go through their lives without ever doing one whole thing they really want to do."- Robert Henri

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Speed Figure Paintings

Labels: My Art

These are a few 5 to 20 minute speed figure paintings I did during a drawing and painting class at the Innerspark Program over the summer of 2009 at Cal Arts. (Some of which our teacher actually had us paint with our feet) The various techniques we learned in the 4 week class were designed to reform our perception of painting and developing figures, namely *the human body* Oddly enough, it had been the first time that I was really told that there are right and wrong ways to do certain things in regards to art (which I still disagree with) but being critiqued as much as I was during the course of the 4 week class opened me up to a whole different style and view of art. We were lucky enough to have some talented generous live models that held poses for us from 2minutes to 2 hours! personally I know I could not hold a difficult pose for 2 hours with only one break time in between. Mediums used: Acrylics, Conté crayons and Charcole