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Labor Day Weekend

Posted in My Paintings UTPA MFA, Studio, UTPA MFA, tagged , , , , , on September 5, 2011| 2 Comments »

Labor Day Art

Labor Day Art

Labor Day Weekend … and labor I did!  Saturday, and today, Sunday, the studio was abandoned by all other students leaving blessed quiet … so I worked painting the sculpture of Adry Salcedo.

First Painting

First Painting

There is a small doll wearing a paper hula skirt, two large mannequins with a faint trace of lingerie, a child’s overalls attached to shoes, and a pair of yellow rain boots .. .an odd group to paint but here it is !  To see these items look at my first post of the studio.

Teapot Sculpture

Teapot Sculpture

Returning to The Winter Palace … what to my wondering eyes should appear but a sculpture set up outside my neighbors RV.  Quite inventive and amusing!

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Marcel Duchamp on Studios

Posted in Marcel Duchamp, Studio, tagged , , , on September 1, 2011| 1 Comment »

First view of my new studio

First view of my new studio

Marcel Duchamp spoke about the lighting in his studio in 1910-1911 …”You know that gaslight from the old Aver jet is green; I wanted to see what the changing of colors would do. When you paint in green light and then, the next day, you look at it in daylight, its a lot more mauve, gray, and more like what the Cubists were painting at the time.”    An experiment in how the environment affects the finished painting.   Perception is tricky …  This should be fun !

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First Day

Posted in Birding, Studio, tagged , , on August 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Golden-Fronted Woodpecker

Golden-Fronted Woodpecker

Outside my window sits the Golden-Fronted Woodpecker demolishing half a grapefruit … it is not time for the grapefruits to get big and ripen so he is delighted with my store-purchased fruit which I stuck to the tree 2 feet from The Winter Palace.  The hummingbird feeder is also receiving a steady stream of visitors.  Now to drive to class …

Drawing 3 with Prof. Jerry Lyles !  It sounds exciting as he plans on outside excursions all semester … we will draw some of the hidden places on this campus. Later I am to meet with Prof. Karen Sanders and get a studio key and have a room of my own! However … it develops that her plane from the east is delayed by Hurricane Irene and Prof. Donna Sweigert meets us and tells us we all have to share a studio.   Disappointment! My share-mate is Adrianna Salecedo and she has been using the studio all summer.  She is not present tonight … can’t meet her.  I open the door hesitantly and … it is SMALL … and filled with her pottery equipment already … I must squeeze in somehow …. Guess I will paint her ceramic sculpture … which is curious and may make a unique painting!  Tomorrow !!

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