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September 6, 2008 meeting
Jeanine Allen
Elaine Scott |
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JEFF POTTER WEB SITE
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Experimental Collaboration and Interaction with fellow Albuquerque artists Begun in the Spring of 2007, we (Betsy Greenlee, Fred Yost, Jaci Fisher, Leila Hall, Jeanine Allen, Elaine Scott, Gaye Garrison and Jeff Potter) were inspired by previous artist/ writer collaborations, most notably the "Scribes Eight" and we strive to explore artistic genres we generally have not thought about attempting. Abstract art came to mind and we chose to meet every six weeks and share our individual efforts at "making" abstract art from a commonly agreed "project" scope discussed at the previous meeting. Herein describes our journey. Below is a chronological listing of web pages made from our past meetings. Click on any meeting to see our efforts. Return to the Art Group Home Page Previous - 4-28-07 Art Group meeting Previous - 6-09-07 Art Group meeting Previous - October & November 2007 Meetings Previous - January 13, 2008 meeting Previous - March 8, 2008 meeting Previous- April 26, 2008 meeting Previous - June 8 and July 20, 2008 meetings CURRENT - September 6, 2008 Night-time theme, no other rules Elaine Scott Project Elaine's notes (9-06-08): "Night inflation and Night Light both began by painting a solid background of blue and then dripping thinned paint on the canvas. From there the shapes and colors evolved. Pueblo Plaid (I think that was the name you gave it and I liked it!) began as a painting of a church in Isleta that I hadn't finished or liked so I just started adding colors and dark. All are done with acrylics on canvas."
Elaine Scott image - "Night Inflation" Elaine Scott image- "Night Light"
Fred Yost Project Fred's notes: "Mountain Road Night - I once had my studio on Mountain Road and 7th street in the Harwood Art Center. On many occasions I either came or left the studio at night and was impressed by the wonderful images there are on this historic street. I often wished that we could roll back time so that I could see the goings-on this street offered. The biggest problem I encountered in painting this scene is how to paint the illumination from the street lamp. In the end I used glazes and "wiping out" to capture this effect. Given time the concept of night paintings on Mountain Road would make a great theme for a series of paintings."
Betsy Greenlee Project Betsy's notes:
Betsy Greenlee image 1
Leila Hall Project 9-6-2008 Leila's Notes: "These two images were done on Rough Brown paper. Image 1 is a twilight scene I see from my home in the Corrales bosque.
Image 2 is from a photo on a fireworks display in Europe." Leila Hall image 1
Leila Hall image 2
Jeff Potter Project Jeff's notes (9-6-2008): "I chose a subject of the night sky, especially the Milky Way, and the Sandia Mountains. The depth of the night sky is hard to replicate...I did a watercolor mixed with pastels to set the realism of the sky and mountain rock features (Image 1.) To try and achieve a darker sky I used a scan of the watercolor which I then converted to Black and White (1A.) An alternative manipulation in Adobe Photoshop I attempted to create a "Digital Batik" and pushed the color and contrast (Image 2.). Finally, I later did an oil on canvas pad (Image 3)"
Jeff Potter IMAGE-1A
Jaci Fisher Project (9-6-2008) Jaci's comments- "Our assignment was to do a night painting. So, I selected a photo which pictured a single horse standing in a marsh at sunset. The photo set up a series of problems to solve - one of which was getting the horse correct, but the hardest part was making dark colors work together and not turn into mud or all one tone. I chose dark browns, dark violets, and and black and gray...also the white horse turned into blue and silver with some magenta tones. Since I was also dealing with water and grass it gave me an opportunity to use bright orange and gold and cream whites for what little light and reflected light was left of that day. Those dark colors worked in the foreground and the lighter colors do appear to create a reflection off the plants and water, the legs of the horse are reflected in the dark water and in general the color of the horse gave the feeling of evening in the grays, purples, violets and cream...and all a bit abstract. The middle ground, however, did turn quite black and dark violet without much color subtlety or texture or shapes so it flattened out too much and detail was lost. And the far distant area of the painting was grayer with the setting sun...or could be the rising moon... and a more experienced painter may have given that area more attention, but again it flattened out and was less interesting. It needed more subtlety in color and color variation. It is an assignment that could be done again and also done more abstractly to see if the feeling of night could still be captured. I also should pay more attention to the light of night which would give more information when translating it into paint or pastel. Night has it's own language and feelings that I only captured in small parts of my painting painting.
Next meeting is Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 1 PM. TOPIC - Fauvism |
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Experimental
Collaboration
and Interaction
with fellow Albuquerque artists
Betsy Greenlee
Jaci Fisher 
Jeff Potter
Elaine Scott image-
"Pueblo Plaid"
Fred Yost
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Jeff
Potter
IMAGE-1
Jeff
Potter
IMAGE-2
Jeff
Potter
IMAGE-3
Jaci
Fisher
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