"I've Fallen Behind and I Can't Catch Up!"

This week real life had to be attended to so I got behind in my Creative Jumpstart 2016.  The week of Picasso inspired projects was from January 19 through the 24th.  I am posting my last project first and then the final pictures from each project before it. This morning is the last day of Jumpstart 2016 and it has been wonderful.  What a great experience!  I had so much fun and learned so much. Thank you Nathalie Kalbach and all the participating artists who led the demos.  I still have the week of projects on Anselm Kiefer to do but the project videos are mine forever, so no problem catching up as I can.  I also started Jodi Ohl's class "Dirty Flirty Birds" on the 20th, but had to stop with those for this past week, too.  I will be able to more forward with both classes, now that gathering tax papers, getting car stickers, complaining in person to Comcast, and on the phone to Apple, moving furniture for deliveries,paying bills, etc. has passed! 
I am linking to Paint Party Friday, so take a look at that site which offers creative endeavors from many talented artists.

Picasso Peacock Led By Miriam Schulman

Stage one, background paint, then collaged papers with drawing of Peacocks.

Gessoed over Peacock, added green oil pastel in background

Stenciled "spines",added lines in headdress, blue ink on bodies

Added "eyes" to spines and eyes to Peacocks in white paint.

Added white "V's" on spines, red beaks, lines in background, yellow, red and white in all eyes

Picasso Fish Collage with Gwen Lafleur

Tulip Painting with Catherine Scanlon

Two-Layer Cardboard Picasso with Marsha Valk

Picasso Fragmented Objects with Nathalie Kalbach

Have a wonderful week and Thank You for stopping by.  Please leave a comment if you are so inclined.  Gloria

Picasso via Nathalie Kalbach on Defragmented Explorations

That is a long title!  Basically in Nathalie's demo she explained a very interesting concept. You pull out 4 or 5 small objects with nice shapes and draw them onto your surface with pencil. You draw their backs, their fronts, their bottoms, their tops, their sides!  You start with one object, drawing it from one viewpoint and then as you draw the others you fill up the entire surface. This is my version, using some objects I had lying around. A soft bodied paint bottle, a small pair of scissors, a 2" paint brush, a pencil sharpener and a scotch tape dispenser. Her final project looked more cubist because she shaded her objects. But I had fun and learned a lot while doing it. 

I used oil pastels and Neocolor watersoluble pastels and a Sharpie oil marker for outlining. Oh, I used some Derwent Inktense pencils and Liquitex paint markers, too.

Cubist Project

In the beginning

Have a nice night,

See you tomorrow I hope. :>)

Gloria

"Picasso, Marsha Valk and Double Trouble!"

My next Picasso project had me stumped for a couple of days.  The demo by Marsha Valk was absolutely fabulous, but quite complicated. I decided I wouldn't do all the steps she showed us, so instead of stripping the top layer of cardboard and exposing the inner structure, I opted for doing a stencil on the bottom layer instead.  Well, you will see below!

Here is the final Project picture.  Sorry the photo is warped!

Step one, coat one piece of cardboard with matte medium on one side and paint on the other. With the other piece of cardboard draw your outlines for your second layer.

I coated the cutout with gesso and white paint because of the tape on it.  The other side was coated with matt medium beforehand.

While that dried, I stenciled the background of the bottom layer. And being somewhat new to stenciling, I learned that you don't use soft body acrylics and ink to stencil!  I wiped the mess off and used two red shades of heavy bodied paint.

Starting to lay in colors.

Putting it all together with heavy Gel Medium

Have a great night!  Do some art!

Gloria

"Picasso, Scanlon and Tulips!"

Tonight I am posting my project from the demo by Catherine Scanlon, with Creative Jumpstart 2016. Catherine did a watercolor floral inspired by Picasso. I thought I would do watercolor, but ended up using my acrylics and inks again as well as some Silks on the flower petals.

The final painting below.

Steps 1 and 2

Starting to fill in

Hope to see you for my next Picasso creation!

Gloria

Gloria J Zucaro's "Trip to MMOA"

Three of my artist friends from The Hoffman Estates Art League came over to my house at about 9AM Saturday morning.  I had been getting the house ready…all the outdoor decorations up, and the two small trees, inside, the Santas on the mantle.  They loved my house(or so they said! J)After the "tour" we drove up to the Milwaukee Museum of Art.  We went to the new exhibit called “Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough”.  There was only one Rembrandt, but it was a self-portrait of himself at age 65.  He posed with his brushes and was all about showing the tools of his trade.  Very wonderful and awe inspiring to see in person.  The rest of the exhibit was other Old Masters paintings from a collection from the Kenwood House in London. Apparently the house which is open to the public and free, is being redone.  New floors, etc. so they decided to show the collection here in the States.  The collection will be shown in only four cities.  Exhibition Itinerary: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June 3–September 3, 2012); Milwaukee Art Museum (October 12, 2012–January 13, 2013); Seattle Art Museum (February 14–May 19, 2013); Arkansas Arts Center (June 7–September 8, 2013).                                             See some art below the text.

Himself!

A Dale Chihuly Glass Sculpture on Main Level

Really great docent Geoff Simon who told us about this Picasso.  Picasso had just started this painting when he looked out his window and saw that the street was filling up with Allied soldiers as well as the French citizens.  He knew immediately that something dramatic was happening and put the date  13 .11. 44 on the bottom left corner.  He didn't sign the painting with his usual signature until it was actually finished.  

This is a Chagall that caught my attention

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)

Girl in Straw Hat (Femme au Chapeau Rouge), 1903

Thanks to Sharron Boxenbaum for remembering the artists names and titles of these two paintings

 Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848–1884

Le Père Jacques (Woodgatherer), 1881

 

The Museum itself is amazing!  The new part is all white marble floors and brilliant white walls and ceilings and is shaped like a giant bird.  The ”wings” going out from it expand three times a day.  Unfortunately we missed the one at noon because we didn't know about it and were in the middle of the exhibit.   See these pictures! 

View as we arrive

 Inside Main level(2nd floor of 3)

Looking Toward Lake Michigan

 Right side small wing with coffee shop for coffee & scones, etc.

 View out other end toward E. Michigan St. pointing camera almost straight up

A lower perspective same view

View down opposite side wing to older museum building exhibits at end(Dark area).  Both gift shops are on left side as you go down this hall.

 Inside one of the exhibit areas(Cubists) with Geoff(a docent) Sandy Schmidt(front), Sharron Boxenbaum, the President of the Hoffman Estates Art League (carrying purse over shoulder & gift bag) and Maria Vera.  I took several pictures in black and white for drama.

 We looked in a small gift shop of items typical of English lifestyle, and the larger regular gift shop.   We ate lunch about 1:30 in the café there.  The menu and food were themed with the show.  A picture and history of Kenwood  House on the Menu, then Fish & Chips, Bangers & Mash, and Pasties, etc. on the menu.  After lunch we looked at the impressionists, cubists, expressionists, Pop Art, etc.  We left about 4PM and got home about 5:15.  A great Day

Gloria J Zucaro's Picasso- It Challenge"Taos Girl At Horno

6"H x 6"W Original Oil On Panel

$75.00 Unframed  S&H to your ZIP
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Here is my painting for my “Picasso It” Challenge.
It is called “Taos Girl At Horno, Picasso-style”
A horno is the proper name of the bake ovens at the Taos Pueblo.  I took this picture while on vacation in 2009.
I got the design by cutting apart the photo that I had printed out and then trying various placements on the 6 x 6 panel.  
I think putting the name of the artist chosen in the title is an important part of the challenge.
Below is the original picture before I cut it up.