Saturday, October 20, 2012

Elizabeth Mowry Workshop - "What if...?" (changing the palette)

                                                                                            Pastel 9x12"

If you know of Elizabeth's work, you know that she can get extremely creative with her palette and create a beautiful painting.  She often will create a series by starting with a natural depiction of a landscape and then asking herself "What if....?"  Elizabeth encouraged us to take one of our own landscapes and ask "What if...?" by changing our own palettes.   Rather than creating one resolved painting with a different palette, I decided to do lots of different studies.   Color is an aspect of painting that is always challenging for me, so I wanted to just loosen up, try lots of things, and see what would happen.  Here is what happened:


                                                                                                 Pastel 9x12 total

I had tons of fun doing this exercise, and I think it is one I will continue, even for other subject matter.  The study in the upper right is unfinished in this photo.  I finished it on the last day of class (yesterday), but haven't photographed it yet.  I am still on the road, and since it is rainy out, I do not want to take a pastel painting out the car today to get another photograph.

I do plan to try to sum up the workshop in another post, probably when I'm back home.  I'll have plenty of time while I am traveling to think of how to convey this experience in writing. 

Hope you are well, Watchers!

7 comments:

Doug Wasilieff said...

Hi Meredith

Lucky you! I bet the workshop was worth every penny. I am looking forward to your report on it. Welcome to the world of colorful dust.

It is amazing what color does to the mood of a painting. I have done a similar exercise with four different under paintings, and that even made a difference. Have fun with the pastels.

carol edan said...

Wonderful exercise!!!

Meredith Adler said...

Thanks, Doug and Carol. I agree, I do feel extremely lucky. Yes, the workshop was well worth the time, expense, travel effort, etc.! Doug, if you ever feel like posting those under painting studies on your blog, I would be very interested to see what you did.

Meredith Adler said...

Testing

Mary said...

What fun! Now to make a larger piece of each study? You are so good with pastels!

Meredith Adler said...

Thanks, Mary! I'm happy to see you are back. I may do a larger piece of at least one of them. Someone in the class said to use the dark one. You may see me in the studio more if I'm going to continue with pastels! P.S. You forgot to write in your URL.

Meredith Adler said...

I'm assuming the commenter above is http://www.marymaupin.wordpress.com !

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