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New London-Spicer Senior Art Show

25May2012by k. Leave a comment

These ten NL-S high school students hosted their own senior art show at greenwater garage on Friday, May 25. It was crazy-fun and visitors from all over the county came to see […]

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no one believes me

22May2012by k. Leave a comment

I witness a lot of unusual things happening in downtown New London, but no one really believes this one. One day I saw a fellow walking his lawnmowers. First a […]

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The REDstar Creativity Exchange

22May2012by k. Leave a comment

Betsy Bonnema brought her enthusiastic group of team members & clients to greenwater for an afternoon of creative activity, mingling and conversation.  Her presentation was dynamic, and I think we […]

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SPARK of clarity

15May2012by k.

Going to St Louis with my pal Betsy, being at the SPARK Conference, listening to Seth Godin and Jonah Lehrer talk about creativity, attending workshops and meeting new people who […]

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The focus for Drawing Club was capturing negative space. This involves seeing it first. Understanding the value of negative space is essential to an art practice, but it isn't the flashiest study. We started by warming up with white media on black, then moved to drawing the negative space only. It's a brain bender, but it is the good stuff.
On Monday we painted starscapes while learning a variety of useful techniques. We blotted, mottled, sprinkled and lifted. There was so much success-even when we doubted ourselves. Like the astronauts say, "It's a long journey to the next galaxy." This is the good stuff.
The Drawing Club fearlessly tackled the challenge of glass objects on Tuesday. We concentrated, chose our tools and stuck with it until our subject emerged from the page. Looking for dark and medium tones beyond the highlights is the hard part. But we're fearless because this is the good stuff.
We painted blues on Monday-the blues of the sea! We practiced our opacity, our mixes and our brush strokes. Though the lessons are simple, the work is hard. And yet, magic still happens! This is such good stuff, really.
What an amazing day for Porch Fest! 😎 Thank you for playing at the garage. We love to host this community event!
It was a big night for the Drawing Club! We practiced looking at landscapes and orienting ourselves to the horizon line, background and foreground. We learned a new form of perspective, then used it to depict reflections in water and ice. We are drawing environments in graphite and chalk, day and night, getting better all the time. This is the good, atmospheric stuff.
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