More fun at my Lexington workshop with our boat show. I was looking for a way of getting artists to loosen up and detach from the outcome of their painting--essentially to get back to the
joy of painting. Then I came across
Leslie Saeta's wonderful painting blog and her 27 sailboat paintings. And the idea was hatched. We played musical easels, taking turns working at each easel, for about 4 minutes at a time (long enough to listen to the Christopher Cross "Sailing" CD play.....) at which time I would holler "next", and everyone moved to the easel next to them. What resulted were the wonderful little pieces you see above--completed in about 35 minutes, which included scurrying from easel to easel. It turned out to be lots of fun and a great exercise for everyone in remembering the joy of painting and a reminder you don't
have to have a huge block of time to paint--the important thing is to paint, and often.
More fun at my Lexington workshop with our boat show. I was looking for a way of getting artists to loosen up and detach from the outcome of their painting--essentially to get back to the joy of painting. Then I came across Leslie Saeta's wonderful painting blog and her 27 sailboat paintings. And the idea was hatched. We played musical easels, taking turns working at each easel, for about 4 minutes at a time (long enough to listen to the Christopher Cross "Sailing" CD play.....) at which time I would holler "next", and everyone moved to the easel next to them. What resulted were the wonderful little pieces you see above--completed in about 35 minutes, which included scurrying from easel to easel. It turned out to be lots of fun and a great exercise for everyone in remembering the joy of painting and a reminder you don't have to have a huge block of time to paint--the important thing is to paint, and often.
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I am honored that you chose my boat paintings as an inspiration for your "musical canvas" workshop. It is so fun to see all of the paintings and I think your idea is absolutely wonderful! What fun!
ReplyDeletePaint arounds are always fun! I am sure your students enjoyed it and the results are great.
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun, but, how did you decide who owned which painting? I notice that some have signatures.
ReplyDeleteShirley--they started out painting on the canvas on their own easel and that's the one they returned to at the end. I gave them 3 bonus strokes to pull the piece together the very last thing, and then it became their piece. I had them initial them so they could remember which one was theirs after we laid them out to view and photograph. It really was great fun.
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