Wednesday afternoon Ken showed the class a process for incorporating figures into the landscape. My first attempt was a total disaster -- but Thursday evening I went back to the studio and tried again. His process begins using black paint to place vertical lines on the canvas -- this is done in a fairly random way. Next, splashes of skin tone are added to the tops of the black lines. Followed by splashes of colors being added on top of the lines. Then Ken images people in the paint and begins to uses a background color to sculpt and define the figures. He adds the ground and then highlights. So basically, you don't know what the end product will be when you begin. This was uncomfortable for me. Richard Schimd says, "Begin with the end in mind." Certainly not the Auster approach to figures! Ken encouraged us to go home and repeat this exercise 5 or 6 times. I'm going to do just that! (58/83)
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