This original chalk pastel is
titled “Lunch in the Garden” and captures the intense vibrancy of sitting in a
still cool July morning, enjoying a cuppa and looking out at the extravagant ornateness
of summer blooms. ..while perhaps wearing a fish hat.
As a visual artist who has
taught many years of middle school and university level art students, as well
as given hours of painting workshops to adults, I love to surprise my student’s
creative process by creating images in unusual ways. This pastel probably wins the prize for the
most peculiar source for an art image that I’ve ever suggested.
My students and I sat in a
circle with all manner of almost used up art materials on a table in the
center. Amid much laughter and
increasing little kid messiness, we passed a breakfast cereal box around and
around; each one of us selecting a tube of paint, crayon, pen, ink brush—anything
that would make a mark—and covered the inside of the box without peeking inside. When we had as much color smeared on
ourselves as we imagined was smeared inside, we opened the box to dry flat. What a riot of color and pattern! Such a wild story of shapes and textures
could never be told by planning the effects or checking on progress.
When the art materials were dry,
we used strips of white paper taped into a small picture “frame” and moved
these around the cardboard until we found forms that spoke back to our
wandering gaze.
Once we had located an area and
taped our frame over it, this was cut out and became the source image for our
painting. We then had the good fun and visual
challenge of trying to replicate exactly the different materials and marks to a
scale that ‘jumped up’ into art.
LUNCH IN THE GARDEN
Original
Chalk Pastel on Matte Board
20”(w) x 13”(h) (51
cm x 33 cm) unframed…$500.00
Matted to fit 26.5”
x 20” frame
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wrapped on foam core for shipping
shipping
included
Custom
fine art print on acid free velvet art paper
with
archival inks
17”
x 11” (43 cm x 27 cm) unmatted….$150.00
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wrapped on foam core for shipping
shipping
included
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