In May/June 2022 I attended an abstract painting studio class at Woodmere Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Our group met in the museum's teaching studio and spent 3 hours each Tuesday morning just painting with critiques from our instructor, Val Rossman. You may remember I took an earlier session of this class with her at the same location in fall, 2021.
This time was just as much fun. Thanks to her and my fellow students for a nice experience.
This week was the last full painting session we did in the class. For the sixth and last class, we did a little bit of work but spent most of the time in Critique Day - we brought in our painting(s) and chose one for the class to talk about. It's a nice experience when it is done as we did in our class - we learn and we get to talk about our work and what it means and what and how we worked to accomplish our aims.
But I digress. In this the fifth class, I did two works. One was a reworking of a painting I did in the landscape class I had taken the previous summer. I just do not like doing landscapes and this painting always felt very forced to me:
So in this class I turned it into this:
It's called "Fugitive" and is 18" x 24". I still don't much like it but I am not going to do anything else to it.
I also this this painting:
It's called "Interrupted Journey" and is 24" x 18". I keep wanting to add to it and then not doing it. I think that means it is finished, even if I feel an unfinished something about it. So that is why I named it as I did. Maybe this painting's journey was meant to end before I thought.
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Well, that's it for this session of abstract painting. I hope to take the studio sessions again in the fall of 2022.
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