No Need for Art School

Let me walk around on marble floor. I'll learn more than 10:50-4:20 times four.
My professor tells me "good hands, good eyes." The dates and paperwork and goodbyes.
Align. Center, search, discover, input. input. input.
Output.

"The impressionist's emphasis on drawing has only recently begun to be fully considered."

If you truly understand and tap into how color moves with the eye on a canvas or piece of paper - you have the basis for a successful work of art.

Line provides direction. i.e. Degas "Women in a Tub" The composition offsets verticals and horizontals against rounded forms. "Giulia Bellelli (study)"= first uses of ESSENCE, or thinned oil paint! - "Art is vice, you don't marry it legitimately, you ravish with it."

The direction of the pastels application creates both movement and gradation. The blurring of marks vs. the heaviness of paint creates depth. i.e. Renior - "Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world."

*diagonals. triangles.*

Pastel sticks are a mixture of ground pigments, white chalk, and water (or binding agent) and, depending on the ratio of pigment to chalk, produce either a smooth or rough finish. It is a way to fuse line with color (merging drawing and painting).

Pastels are loose and unconfined. They rely on the difference between a smudged application (creating a smear of color pushing into the background) and the steady, but broken line (kissing the foreground, the viewers face).

The tonality of the subject and the transition between one color to the next is vital.

"Seurat could make light shoot out, just moving a crayon on paper." -Apollinaire

"There is no such thing as a line or modeling; there are only contrasts." Cezanne
(a passionate man, reclusive, very private- lived and died solely for his art)
"I try to capture the essence in the drawing - then I fill the spaces demarcated by the outline (expressed or not) but felt in every case."

"Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, i use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself more forcibly."- Van Gogh

"Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result." - Gauguin

"The most important element in a picture cannot be defined."- Manet

Apply medium in layers, spreading each color through the entire composition, creates unity. i.e. Monet = en plein air. - "A landscape does not exist as a landscape...it lives in accordance with its surroundings, with air and light, which are forever changing."