The Dead Painter's Society

The Dead Painter's Society is a group of Lane Community College students who meet in the Art Department's building 11, room 121. We meet every Friday at noon--until whenever. All are welcome, but you must come to paint. No experience necessary.

Here are some photos of our people, process, and paintings.







Brent painting a still life. His first effort at oil painting a still life.

Brent's Still Life. Oil on canvas. Incredible work for a first effort.



Katelin Williamson copying one of the Master's--Gustave Klimt.



Katelin Williamson after Klimt. Acrylic on canvas.

                                                                 Katelin's boots--photographed by Alisa "Alley" Akay.

                                                    Ben and some of his paintings. Acrylic on canvases.

                                                            Ben's painting. Acrylic on canvas.

                                          Ben painting a new one. Acrylic on canvas.

                                                    Ben and I talking over (critiquing) one of his works.

                                                   Some friends and I were drinking pints and we put a bunch of topics into a hat. Whatever we drew out, we decided, we would do an art work along that theme. We picked "death." Therefore, I painted this "Vanitas" composition. The skull represents death, the bottle represents life, and the rosemerry represents transition. Daniel Balter, Oil on canvas.

                                                           Brent and I are painting the same arranged still-life. I am teaching him a little bit about how to paint with oils. This is my--still yet unfinished--painting of the bull and bottle. Oil on canvas by Daniel Balter.



I am very grateful for the Dead Painter's Society and the energy in the room as we paint and talk and listen to music. I will always remember this time. Carpe Deum!




                                                        

The Art I Did 2010-2011: My Personal Favorites

This is a selection of art I did over the last year and a half, that are some of my favorites.

 

 

A Pelvic Bone or a Grotesque Face?

Although this acrylic painting on cardboard looks like some sort of grotesque face it is actually a painting of an animal's pelvic bone.

I did the painting in my Introduction  to Painting class. The warmer color is from the brown of the cardboard and I used black acrylic paint for the dark and white paint for the highlights.

My Instructor, Adam Grosowski, is an awesome painter and teacher and he is making us do a lot of value studies in graphite (slide sketches) and in acrylic paint. He says that most anything can be rendered in ones, fives, and tens on the value scale. One is black, five is gray, and 10 is white.

The two paintings on the right are an interesting comparison. The one on the left I did in 45 minutes and it is on the brown side of the cardboard. After I finished, Adam said that I needed to take a detail of  the painting and blow it up and do another painting-- only this time I needed to do it in a 15 minute time frame. (I did it on the white side of another piece of cardboard.)

The interesting part, to me, is that one painting took 45 minutes and one took 15 minutes and yet they are comparable and the 15 minute painting doesn't at all look crappy even though I was racing the clock.

This also was the experience of the rest of the class.

 

I am learning a lot and after every class I feel as though I am walking out a better artist. Next term I have Adam Grosowsky as my Instructor in Intermediate Drawing and I can't wait!