Ameland Studio: Sunday, February 20, 2011
Hard at work in Ameland.
We arrived at the Ameland studio (via ferry) around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 19th and started moving our supplies into the studio space immediately. We were set up in about an hour and started right to work. We stopped for dinner around 5:30 then back to work at 6:30. I have been looking forward to this opportunity and was anxious to start some experimentation with watercolors, oil pastels and chalk.
Today I’ve been experimenting with “broken color” adding oil pastels to a monochromatic watercolor background. The experimental abstract compositions are inspired by imagery of some textile art found in Gwen Hedley’s book “Drawn to Stitch –which are in turn inspired by landscapes. Photographs of two of the experiments are below (a little blurry).
- “Broken Color” Experiment_001
"Broken Color" Experiment_002
