Iris – Underpainting: Oil Based Glaze for a Wet-on-Wet Painting Foundation
The underdrawings help you to see where you are going – it’s the structure, its a point of reference. This flat line drawing comes alive with the overlaying brushstrokes. These brushstrokes are still within the foundation...

Let’s move into the painting process. It begins here from the drawing to the beginning stages of the painting process. This stage determines your trajectory for the beginning is the most mysterious of all with all the hope, promise, and adventure; it becomes very exciting.

For some students, th...

IRIS –PAINTING PROCESS 1.1 PATTERNS OF COLOR AND BRUSHWORK
This color blue is delicious. It talks to me.
Listen to that still small voice, trust, take the first impulse and run with it. Be patient and see where it leads. Be proactive versus reactive. Mind positive and in a state of gratitude for...

Dynamic painting in an abstracted and abstract way is the hallmark of post-impressionistic painting. Continuing in this way the artist has a whole different set of drivers. This is the gateway to modern art; here one paints intuitively. One is expressing the self through color. Color is not just ...

IRIS –PAINTING PROCESS 1.3 THE REALM OF COLOR

Here I am developing the flat design. Post-impressionist works are about color and expression within the strokes thus communicating feeling. This Iris project seemed right to express itself in a post-impressionist way – symbolically, abstractly, and ...