Kim's Artwork
One of my big personal goals for this trip was to learn how to quickly, loosely sketch, and how to paint with watercolors. I sketched and painted as much as possible, whenever possible. Toward the end of the quarter, my scholastic emphasis really switched to writing papers; I found myself on the computer constantly. The drawing and painting provided an excellent balance and relief. Now I just have to keep with it for the rest of my life!
This is the original building at what is now Villa Gambaraia outside of Florence. The building on the left is the lemonaia. I painted this for Carol Smith, my friend who I stayed with during the last week in Italy (you'll hear more about her soon!). Carol took me to visit this wonderful garden.
Part of our painting class assignment was to write poetry. For me, each poem was sparked by an image. I started creating these watercolors with my poetry. This is the Chiesa San Bagio in Montepulciano. The poem was inspired by a lecture given by Paolo inside the church when he was describing the cultural context for the architecture of the church. Paolo is the director of the Santa Chiara study center, and is a fabulous source of knowledge. His interest and understanding of the culture which produced Italy's art and architecture comes through in all of his talks. We followed him around and hung on his every word whenever possible. He is faculty for Texas, so we only got to hear him during our joint field trips.
Another of the poem/watercolors. This was is from San Gimgnano, the medieval city of the towers.
This is the cypress painting I did in San Gimignano at La Roca.
Chiesa Santa Catrina in Sienna from across the canyon. This was literally a 20 minute watercolor. We had to run back to the meeting place with the group with our wet paintings in hand!
This is one I did in evening class. It's Jill Van Sickle's mom, who bravely (and motionlessly!) modeled for us. Figure painting is very tough. I decided to cheat and skip the face all together! The next figure I did was in oil, and I went for the face. It came out OK, surprisingly enough!
This was a value study of Chiesa San Bagio I did on site. This sketch was the inspiration for the watercolor which I did later.
This is the street in front of Casa Vescovo, where we lived. This was done in Ken Nakaba's afternoon sketch/walk class.
This was done in Pienza on one of Phil's death march sketch adventures. He marched us around the city, chose a place, then we had five minutes to sketch it. This exercise was painfull, but it did serve to loosen me up!
This is the original building at what is now Villa Gambaraia outside of Florence. The building on the left is the lemonaia. I painted this for Carol Smith, my friend who I stayed with during the last week in Italy (you'll hear more about her soon!). Carol took me to visit this wonderful garden.
Part of our painting class assignment was to write poetry. For me, each poem was sparked by an image. I started creating these watercolors with my poetry. This is the Chiesa San Bagio in Montepulciano. The poem was inspired by a lecture given by Paolo inside the church when he was describing the cultural context for the architecture of the church. Paolo is the director of the Santa Chiara study center, and is a fabulous source of knowledge. His interest and understanding of the culture which produced Italy's art and architecture comes through in all of his talks. We followed him around and hung on his every word whenever possible. He is faculty for Texas, so we only got to hear him during our joint field trips.
Another of the poem/watercolors. This was is from San Gimgnano, the medieval city of the towers.
This is the cypress painting I did in San Gimignano at La Roca.
Chiesa Santa Catrina in Sienna from across the canyon. This was literally a 20 minute watercolor. We had to run back to the meeting place with the group with our wet paintings in hand!
This is one I did in evening class. It's Jill Van Sickle's mom, who bravely (and motionlessly!) modeled for us. Figure painting is very tough. I decided to cheat and skip the face all together! The next figure I did was in oil, and I went for the face. It came out OK, surprisingly enough!
This was a value study of Chiesa San Bagio I did on site. This sketch was the inspiration for the watercolor which I did later.
This is the street in front of Casa Vescovo, where we lived. This was done in Ken Nakaba's afternoon sketch/walk class.
This was done in Pienza on one of Phil's death march sketch adventures. He marched us around the city, chose a place, then we had five minutes to sketch it. This exercise was painfull, but it did serve to loosen me up!
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