Mary’s Landscape Art Info

Recently, I began lessons in abstract art.  Since my landscapes are pretty much abstract, I thought perhaps it would help me to learn more about purely abstract art and how it is created.  It is such fun – and almost anything goes.

The instructor begins with a critique of work we bring in and one thing she always does is rotate the work to see which way looks better for hanging – and it often isn’t the way you painted it.  Then perhaps she or others has a comment or suggestion.  She has a demonstration regarding the topic for the day and pictures to stimulate our creativity, and we work on our new paintings until almost the end of the class when we look at every one’s new work.

The painting today came from a still life of apples.  Some are enlarged, some diminished or eliminated and/or the colors changed.  And voila!