Concordia University: Summer semester 2013

Hi,

In February 2013 I received the news that I had been accepted at Concordia University and could register for the summer semester 2013. Mid April, I packed my car and my dog and we started our journey accross Canada. I rented a fully furnished appartment in Montreal and used the Bixi bikes twice a week to get to the painting studio class I registered for.

For the first 6 weeks, the focus of the class was on colour using live models as the subject.  It was really interesting to see the progress in my paintings. Not only I  experimented with colours I had never used before and learned about their origins, I also challenged myself with the subject. Painting the human body can be challenging and I found that I was mostly struggling with hands and feet. So I decided to keep that as the focus of my paintings for the rest of the semester. As a result, I have created a series of hands and feet in different challenging gesture. Sometimes working from photograph of my own hands, sometime using a model.

To view the result, go to the "Art" section of my web site and filter to see the paintings from 2013.

You can read the paper "The book that made me simplified my palette" I wrote at the end of the semester explaining the knowledge on pigment I have gain from reading Philip Ball, Art and the Invention of colour and the effect it had on my style of painting.

Marion