#Inkttober Week 4 Oct. 22 to October 28 - Georgia O'Keeffe

This past week I chose to study one of my favorite artists Georgia O'Keeffe.  She is most known for her flowers and I was intrigued to find out that her scope was very wide.  She used pastels and watercolor in the beginning of her career.  She loved photo's and used techniques related to photography such as cropping photo's of flowers to show a segmented portion of a petal and use it to develop her painting.  She rarely painted portraits.  She in later years oil became her go to medium.

Georgia painted landscapes, scenes from her beloved New Mexico, skulls of dead animals, abstracts and of course flowers.  This is one painter that I would with whom I would have loved to discuss life and art.

There are three days left in October and inktober will be done for another year.  See you in three days.......pilgrim

#Inktober 2018 Week 3 - Study of Paul Klee 10-15 to 10-21

I have been told that my artistic style is reminiscent to Paul Klee.  Well I had never heard of him and decided to look him up.  Over the course of a few years I have read a little about him here and there; but, decided to add him to my study list for Inktober 2018.

I found this information regarding his method of teaching art at the Bauhaus:

1.  Take a line for a walk:  get comfortable with the process.  Use letters, line drawing and symbols to define your artistic language.

2.  Observe a fish tank:  Observing movement in composition of art, even abstract art. The movement of fish in a tank or nature will inspire movement in your work.

3.  Draw the circulatory system:  Klee found drawing the branching of plants, organ systems and water flow added to the depth and composition of works of art.

4.  Weigh the colors:  choosing colors should be simplistic and bold, filled with adventure.  Create your own color wheels; experiment and find harmony even in dissonant pairings of colors.  Embrace color with childlike abandon.

5.  Study the Masters:  compare/contrast/learn techniques from the great artists; not to copy but to help you in starting your artistic journey.

I really enjoyed studying Paul Klee, although it was a real challenge translating his work to pen and ink.  Who will I study next?  Wait and see, until next week.  pilgrim

#Inktober 2018 Week 2 Oct. 8-14 a study of Gustav Klimt

I am not a professional artist by any stretch of the imagination.  I am still learning how to use various media and getting comfortable finding my artistic voice.  I like to participate in challenges like Inktober because it encourages me to art everyday at least for 31 days.  I decided this year to try and study the work of masters and translate it to pen and ink along with color.  This week I studies Gustav Klimt.  I am not so much intrigued with his portraits as I am with his use of gold and doodle like marks.  I found a couple of key points about his work.  

Key Ideas

Klimt first achieved acclaim as a decorative painter of historical scenes and figures through his many commissions to embellish public buildings.

Klimt was one of the most important founders of the Vienna Secession in 1897, and served as its initial president, though he was chosen less for his completed oeuvre - relatively small at that point - than his youthful personality and willingness to challenge authority. His forcefulness and international fame as the most famous Art Nouveau painter contributed much to the Secession's early success - but also the movement's swift fall from prominence when he left it in 1905.

Two key points I found on an analysis of the artwork of Gustav Klimt.  

Below are photo's of my paintings for this week.

This week required a lot of thought and imagination as again, I did not want to just copy work, rather put my own spin on it.  It was a fun week and can I say, I love the gold.  There are only 6 photo's this week because the last painting took me two days to complete.  Until next week
pilgrim.

#Inktober Week 1: October 1 to October 7 - A study of Kandinsky

I tried for weeks to think about what I wanted to do for 31 days in the month of October for Inktober. I looked at previous years and just wanted to do something out of my comfort zone.  In fact, I got a fortune from a fortune cookie two weeks ago that said it was time to step outside of my comfort zone, hmmm.

I have always been intrigued by the style of Kandinsky and thought I would do some inspired by sketches.  It morphed into a study of the artist and it was really fun.

What I learned:

• Painting was spiritual for him
• non-objective abstract art conveyed universal human emotions and ideas
• he viewed music as the most transcendent form of non-objective art - musicians could evoke images in listeners' minds merely with sounds. He strove to produce similarly object-free, spiritually rich paintings that alluded to sounds and emotions through a unity of sensation.
• He drew houses, nature, birds in abstract methods
• I actually think like Kandinsky (who knew)

Sketches for the week:

So who will I study next?  I am making a list of artists to study over the course of the rest of the month.  It is really interesting to see which artists sketched as well as painted.  

Watch Instagram for the reveal tomorrow of my next teacher.

Have an art filled friends,  pilgrim