SGVCC Spring Art Show, Chilean Valley, Storm, photograph, Elephant Mountain, stabilo 6x9". Sunflowers, Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit, Tempera 18x24"

 

Elephant Mountain, tempera on cardboard, 6 x 18"

I was teaching a Paintnight class after the Van Gogh immersive exhibit. I discovered that the Dollar Store Prang tempera paints were so watery and transparent they might as well have been finger-paint. This was a demo model I tried to salvage. But the paint was so thin, it buckled the cardboard. Since the cardboard was long and skinny, I just kept adding extra humps to Elephant Mountain. The piece knocked around in the back of my car for a few months before I rescued it.

After Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit, Sunflowers, and Starry Night, Tempera 18x24" (SGVCC Spring Art Show)

First time I’ve entered a painting in an art exhibit before it was dry.

 

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboardl, 10 x 10"

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboardl, 10 x 10"

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboardl, 10 x 15"

Nicasio Reservoir, fog, tempera on drawing paper, 10 x 12"

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboard, 10 x 20"

In-class teaching demos, Klee inspired “quilts”, each piece is 18 x 24" on sulfite paper, tempera, 2008

These pieces were recombined in infinite possibilities. Sometimes I had students make those decisions. And when we had a show-and-tell critique of their own work, they'd rearrange their pieces too. I like the collective thinking process.

Teaching demo, inventive fish, tempera, ca. 2008, from a Facebook album, Literrata link

Teaching demo, inventive fish, tempera, ca. 2008, from a Facebook album, Literrata link

Teaching samples, Butterfly paintings (in class demos), tempera, 2008, Literrata link

Teaching samples, Butterfly paintings (in class demos), tempera, 2008, Literrata link

Teaching samples, Klee inspired “quilts”, tempera, 2008, Literrata link

Teaching samples, Klee inspired “quilts”, tempera, 2008, Literrata link

Teaching samples, tempera landscapes, 2006-2007,from a Facebook album, Literrata link

Teaching samples, tempera landscapes, 2006-2007, Literrata link