A strict process that nurtures individual expression
The variety of results shown in this one session demonstrates that I am teaching a painting process which:
- Creates a finished masterwork in one session
- and yet allows for a range of personal approaches to the subject.
This is by far the quickest way to find your own style in painting (and music too!). By analysing and interpreting recognised masterworks.
These examples were painted in one session: Cezanne: Apples, 1878.
Cezanne's original.
Having found the lines of counterpoint, the student is defining the darkest tones first.
Laying down a base coat of red on that apple gives the canvas a huge lift!
This student has worked on all the "positive space" first.
By way of contrast, this student has mapped all the negative space first!
Drawing the positive and negative spaces together.
Naomi's Cezanne incorporated a pop culture reference, with a couple of "smiley face" or you might call them "emoticon apples"!
Gorgeous backgound textures on Naomi's Cezanne, which are difficult to capture with a camera.
Penny's Apples included a Valentine!
Cherry's Apples showed her preference for Baroque texturing, doubtless informed by her 8 grades of piano and violin repertoire.
Alex managed to capture the "squared-off" shapes that Cezanne preferred. This gives the simple sphere a lot of energy.
Tina's apples displayed soft, blended textures. She later overlaid some constructivist Cezanne strokes with impasto.
Detail from Tina's Cezanne.
So at the end of a four hour session we have five unique expressions of artistic style, and five more beautiful paintings have entered the world!
