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Monthly Archives: July 2015

July 19, 2015
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16x20 in, Alex Colville, Andrea Mossop, animal, boy, Canadian, dog, Kathy Guenkel, oil painting, snowball, squirrel, winter

Squirrel, Boy and Dog

July 19, 2015 Art Blog, Home Leave a comment

Squirrel, Boy and Dog

There is a bit of glare on the canvas. It’s still wet and I am not sure it’s finished yet. I just wanted to talk more about the workshop that made it possible to paint it. This past week saw me taking the opportunity to participate in a workshop with Andrea Mossop. Besides being a wonderful artist and teacher, she has received some of her training from  Hugh Mackenzie. He, in turn, was a student of Alex Colville. The intensive 3 day workshop was rich with the a rare insight into and understanding of Colville the artist and person, as well as the tools of composition and design that he used so masterfully.
In summary,  Colville filled his prepatory drawings with lines, circles and key markers that did not, as many have supposed, give a rigid structure on which to place the characters of his ‘stories'( For the curious, examples of this can be seen in Google Images).  Rather, he was discovering the relationships that already exist in the scenes which we store in our minds’eye. He simply developed the few, which, in his words, ‘drop down the funnel’ of our life experiences and accompanying perceptions, emotions, etc…
Andrea, therefore, made us draw, without reference to the photos we had selected. With strict obedience to these resulting sketches, we then went looking for relationships–the things that exist between things and make us want to represent them in the first place….a squirrel, a boy, a dog.  A simple moment in my life and in theirs.
It was humbling to see how simple and pure the resulting images are–to me anyway. Thank you Alex. Thank you Andrea.

 

 

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July 4, 2015
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9x12, alla prima, Canadian, Kathy Guenkel, oil on board, Still life, summer

Strawberries; marching to the ‘jam session’ beat.

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Strawberry Jam Session

One of the best things about summer is eating fresh strawberries. The season is so short and abundant that the best thing to do with extras is preserve them for the cold months ahead. It seems a shame to see all the beautiful shape and colour and natural goodness get mashed and drowned in sugar but hey, come winter, it won’t seem so bad. Here they are, marching up to sacrifice themselves for our snacking  pleasure .  They look happy, don’t you think?

 

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July 1, 2015
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8 x 10 in, alla prima, Canadian, flower, Kathy Guenkel, nature, oil on board, peony, season

Peony Season

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8x10, oil on board

Peony season is one of my favourites. I watch and wait for the ants to come and tickle the buds to make them open. So glad I grabbed a few to bring inside before the rain caused them to swoon like southern belles. Petals are now spread like a big pink skirt on the ground and I am already looking forward to peony season next year.

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