PROMPT #1: HOME

Alana’s Response:

Laura’s Response:

What does home mean to you?

Home is a complex place right now. I ache for a simpler time. We are on a family property in a crazy real estate market. Complicated. I want my art to deal with this head on rather than numb the permanence/impermanence, what we know/what we don’t, what I control/what I don’t; I am going to feel as I make this.

What materials did you use to answer this prompt? 

50 x 60 inch linen on stretchers: The linen is sized with one coat of PVA sizing and then two coats of clear gesso, dried, sanded, then using a paint marker for a contour expression, a blue paint marker and pigment stick for the teapots and yellow pigment stick for the logs.

What is your subject matter?

Being near the woodstove is where I feel safest in our house, and so I am painting it.

What was your process?

I am interested in continuing the visual language present in my Mattisse inspired reserve line figure painting (18 x 24” on clear gesso).

What was your process? (continued)

 The 30 x 20” mixed media collage with blue art tape has the monochrome palette I will use for my HOME prompt and the color for COLOR prompt.

I spent a long time preparing the canvas, like building a room for the painting to live within so that the gray linen would act as a color. Contour drawing with the oil based painting marker was both painting and drawing, and is a joy. The painting will be built with white ochre black and cobalt blue paints, pens and pigment sticks, all oil.