Experimental Collaboration  and Interaction with fellow Albuquerque artists

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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.

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PROJECT - FAUVISM

Jeanine Allen Project    Jeanine's notes (11-02-08):  ""

Jaci Fisher Project    Jaci's notes (11-02-08):  "Again our group met to show new work based on Fauvism this time.  Fauvism as an art movement was short lived, but it did affect modern art by encouraging artists to use wild, expressionistic color and bold forms in their work - something that had never been done before.  I decided to do a portrait since I have always admired Henri Matisse's painting of Madame Matisse.  I used some natural, but mostly unnatural colors on the face trying to abstract the portrait image.  The shapes created by the colored areas were expressionistic and only generally related to the human body.  The Fauvists also seemed to contain spaces and shapes in bold, unnatural colors to extend their abstraction of the subject matter.  This is one idea I did not use and perhaps would have helped my portrait.  The portrait seems a bit too sketchy and needs some areas that have more defined shapes of color to balance the more expressionistic gestures.  The final art piece is certainly something different for me, and pushed me to use and think of color differently - ideas I can certainly use in future projects."

Jaci Fisher image

Elaine Scott Project     Elaine's notes (11-02-08):  "My 3 fauve impression paintings are done on yupo paper. The first 2 are oil stix and oil pastel utilizing layers of pure color. The 3rd one is my first attempt using watercolor on yupo by painting with pure colors and then spraying or dripping with water to dilute."

            Elaine Scott image-1

   Elaine Scott  image -2

          Elaine Scott image-3

Leila Hall Project 11-02-08 Leila's Notes "In the style of the Fauves--an attempt to make these pictures of a wood in
Germany into blocks of color and form "

   Leila Hall image 1

     Leila Hall image 2

Betsy Greenlee Project   11-2-08 Betsy's notes:  "The project was to paint in the style of the Fauves. To me, that means flat simplified shapes and intense, nonrepresentational color. Since I've been frustrated for quite a while with the surfaces I've been using in my pastels, I've been experimenting recently with acrylics and decided to continue that for this project. The first painting is of the acequia behind my house, a scene I've done several times in pastel. I found I really enjoyed using a lot of paint and allowing it to mix on the canvas, though the brushstrokes are pretty crude. "

Betsy Greenlee image 1

"For the second painting, I decided to really simplify and flatten the shapes. I thought allowing the outlines of the forms to show, as seen in some Fauve paintings, would further enhance the flatness of the forms. I was pretty happy with this image, though if I were to continue working on it, I'd try to modulate the color a bit more."

Betsy Greenlee image 2 

" The third painting (which is upside down from the way I painted it) is a continuation of a series I've been doing in pastels, of just the reflections in the acequia but this time using heightened color. I like the suggestion someone in the group made to do another using the shapes in this painting but abandoning the subject matter altogether-- just try to make the shapes work nonobjectively."

Betsy Greenlee image 3 

Jeff Potter Project  Jeff's notes (11-02-08):  "The autumn colors scream out in primary colors so I attempted a portrait of my puppy Azor using fauve colors and also a pastoral acequia scene near my studio.  I enjoyed the limited palette and forced exaggeration of colors."

Jeff Potter IMAGE-1                                                                            Jeff Potter IMAGE-2   
  

 Fred Yost Project    Fred's notes (11-02-08):  "Fauvist Woman - Since I was a teenager my art education has included drawing from the nude model. I must admit that, at first, it was exiting for other than art reasons but, soon it became important training for a budding artist. Since then I have sat in on many life drawing sessions and continue to learn. When the "Fauve Painting" assignment was decided I had to return to a drawing I had once done with charcoal. The colors I used are certainly wild and I broke up the space in a similar manner as Matisse's famous portrait of a woman."

    Fred Yost image

 Welcome to new member Rod Groves    Here are a couple of Rod's recent acrylic and ribbed cardboard mixed media.

Rod Groves " Still Life"                                                                              Rod Groves "Tar Sands"

Our next project is to do a "Blind Contour Drawing" as the start for a work of art.

  Next meeting is Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 1 PM.

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