STUDIO JOURNEY

I recently joined an online abstract art workshop group led by Nancy Hillis, an artist in California, called Studio Journey. One of my goals this year is to spend more time in my studio painting - experimenting, learning and developing and I hoped that this would bring some focus and input. I thought you'd like to see what I've been getting up to.

Working in a Series

The first topic presented was the idea of working in a series. Choosing certain things as constraints for using in a number of pieces so that they would hang together as a group. I decided to limit myself to certain colours and patterns that I would layer on each one. We were encouraged to create around 8 mini studies or 'painting starts' to begin with. These were 5x5 inches each in size.

I was delighted with the response to these pictures on social media, and following enquiries from those interested in purchasing them, I created listings on my Etsy shop.

We were then told to choose a couple of pieces to work up into larger, more developed paintings - I took these two from 5x5" paper studies to becoming 16x16" canvas pictures.

I called this my 'SERIOUS FUN' series as I was committing to taking developing my painting skills seriously but was planning to have fun in the process!