
New Painting Classes
Times goes by so fast! I can’t believe that 10 days have already passed since my last post!
Well, many things have been going on at home, kids had one more week of vacation because the president decided it in order to avoid more AH1N1 swine flu contagions, so things were a little bit moved around here with the kids :)
Today we restarted our routine, but the difference is that now I’m attending to new painting classes. The first ones were not bad, but I felt that I needed some more dynamism. Now I’ve got more of that, let’s see how it goes…
The new teacher reviewed my works (the ones that I have been posting here, plus one new one in progress), and she liked them. She gave me a couple of comments which I have already taken note of* and asked me what I wanted to do. And, in addition to seashells, I’m feeling attracted for the moment to cloths and pleats and shadows, so that’s what I did today. The cloths had a print and were textured, so it was really difficult for me to clearly notice the shadows and contrasts. It was a good exercise. Here I’m including the results of today’s work.
*I have a tendency to paint the backgrounds following the contour of the shapes in the foreground, and that can be noticed, and it doesn’t look good. She recommends me to avoid doing this, the background strokes can be independent from the foreground objects. And also, I have to work harder on contrasts and light/shadow values on my paintings.




























