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Thank you, Johannes!
Joesy, I’ll post them here. I’ll start by reposting my notes from last weekend, OK! Thanks to this separate thread, people won’t have to hunt around for my notes any more.
They would be in this post if the uploader was working right now. I’ll check back later and try to post them. In the meanwhile, I’ll link to my thread in the Art Journals forum. It’s got some comments in it but they’re all there too: https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=872812.
Sorry about the uploader glitch. That’s too frustrating, but I will keep checking back.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
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blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingNotes for Weekend 1: Saturday Jan. 30th
Remember – please do not post to this thread unless you’re me! The idea is to make my notes on the course easy to find without pages on pages of comments to go through to find the last batch. Thank you for setting this up, Johannes!
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
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blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingClass Notes Weekend 1, Sunday January 30th, 2011
It was easier to do that value scale in pen than pencil. Even so, value 6 and 7 look too close together. Printed value scales are more trustworthy!
Another reminder – please do not post to this thread at all! The idea is to let everyone navigate to these notes easily and keep the thread short. Comment, thank and criticize in the current Discussion Thread.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
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blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingImportant!
These notes are no substitute for taking the class. They may help and I’m happy to share them, but they are only notes. Compare “Romeo and Juliet” to the Cliff’s notes on it – you might pass a test but you will only appreciate Shakespeare looking at the real thing. Please, if you miss classes, consider buying the modestly priced recordings. Heck, if you don’t, buy them to review them. I know I will even though I’m attending this intensely.
The pages are numbered and also what class it is gets listed at the top of every page, so you can keep them sorted. I’ll still number per session but this may help keep them organized. Also the date is in the file name.
Enjoy!
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingThanks for your compliment. Please post in the Discussion thread next time though, this thread is just for the notes so they’ll all be easy to find.
Notes for February 6th Video Demonstration:
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blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingFour pages of notes today! More pictures too, which I hope are a little clearer.
For looking up Clyde Aspevig, that’s how to spell his name. (Johannes just mentioned this in post-class discussion.)
Sorry about the bad shape of the girl lying down contour, I was doing her from imagination and goofed. Second one is easier. That was just to get the idea across that some contours are very recognizable.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingThanks for all your appreciation, but Johannes did specify not to comment in this thread and just keep it for the notes themselves.
Our current homework assignment is to choose photos – our own photos – with an example of an interesting tree, an interesting rock formation, a variety of interesting features that show good abstract shapes. I’m sweating over it because I don’t have many photos. I rely a lot on the RIL because I hardly ever get out of the house.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingFive pages of notes for today!
Remember, please do not reply to this thread. If you want to thank me, post in the Discussion thread, or if you have questions for me or comments or critique on my notes.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingA big thank-you to everyone who commented on my notes in the Student Discussion Thread. I do read and enjoy all your comments there.
Here’s today’s notes and I wrote down what the homework assignment is in the notes. It’s a tough one! I tried twice and neither time got it without repetitions.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingNotes from Watercolor Demonstration Sunday Feb. 20th, 2011:
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
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blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingI started taking notes during the pre-class setup this time, so that’s why some of these things may seem out of order. Also, I could not resist sketching my cat, he was in a good pose and irresistible so I used him for an example.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingSunday, February 27, 2011 class notes:
Plus a short checklist of what the most important things in the course are so far, things to remember and get so used to that they’re second nature when painting.
1) Melodic Lines (not jagged, straight, repetitive or wormy)
2) Abstract Shapes (non symmetrical, not geometric)
3) No Fly Zone – peripheral areas
4) Value range 2-7 (on a scale of 1-10 where 1 is white)PLEASE DO NOT POST ANYTHING IN THIS THREAD
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingBig important class on value masses and thumbnails. I repeated some information Johannes mentioned before class answering questions about his suggested palette for beginners.
Post class, Johannes mentioned a couple of things worth typing in that I didn’t have space for on the last page.
Look up Frank Serrano, an artist whose paintings show abstract shapes.
Homework is to sketch Value Masses thumbnails of photos Johannes posted for the exercise.
One way to tell in a gallery if you’re looking at a painting done en plein air or from a photo is to look at the values of the trees. If they’re value 8 or 9 in a broad daylight scene, chances are the artist worked from a photo.
Let’s keep it easy for people to find my notes in chronological order. I do appreciate comments but the place to post them is in the Student Discussion Thread for the current week.
PLEASE DO NOT POST ANYTHING IN THIS THREAD.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingFour pages today, still on Value Mass Planning Thumbnails. They rock. Once more I’m going to suggest this – even though I’m doing it, try to sketch what Johannes is doing on screen. Not big and not trying to get it perfect, just simple and small. The practice ones I did in class have done me so much good.
After seeing other people’s homework I experimented with mediums other than markers to do value mass thumbnails. It’s harder in pencil!
I thought I’d find good gray values in hard pastels but my Conte set only had middle and mid-dark. Derwent’s cold gray was light-mid, warm gray middle and charcoal dark but the hue difference is startling and I had to mix a little charcoal into the middle value one to get the right value. Also did not get the level of clean lines that I did with markers. I would if I sketched larger, it’s just easier with markers in values 3, 5 and 7. Tombow brush pens come in values that match. So do Prismacolor colored pencils, I just didn’t have those out. If you have Prismacolors, try it in the grays, they’re evenly spaced.
As usual…
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Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
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