Well, I arrived safe and sound to beautiful weather, patience for Maui time and abundant ideas for new projects!
I've been staying in Uncle Bruce's house with him and my "cousin" Zach (sister of "cousin" Chelsea). We are right next door to the gallery, the studio, the sculpture garden and Steve and Christine's home.
Uncle Bruce's home is great for solitude, reading and sleeping, but Christine's house is great for glasses of wine, comedy and chatting. (I usually go there in the evenings)
I have so far gone fishing down the mountian nearby, BBQing at Uncle Bruce's new place up on the hill (absolutely breath taking!) and surfing. I have started a few blind contour paintings which turned out to look like black and white Japanese block prints (very minamilistic and pretty).
I've been talking to Christine, who runs the gallery and does sculpture herself, she is going to help me get started on some small sculptures that we'll be doing in water based clay and then putting in the kiln to burn before glazing. I'm going to use my contour drawings as inspiration for these sculptures... abstract figures.
Steve is going to show me how to use the mini electric saw so that I can begin a wood sculpture as well...
Today at the gallery I met one of their featured artists, Tom. He does realism still life. He uses oil paint on panel and lets the panel show through on bits of his paintings as part of his painting... hard to explain, but real neat! Here, see for yourself: http://www.turnbullstudios.org/galleryartists.html the wood you see in the painting is the actual panel he allows to show through. Pretty neat.
We talked a bit about painting, figures, light, photography, how photography affects painting and the tools classical painters pull from todays technology. It was fun. He seemed to be pretty impressed with my blind contour drawings. He had never heard of the concept before. I bet he went home and tried some. haha.
After, I grabbed the cow horn or perhaps buffalo horn and showed it to my uncle. He just turned it around and started examining the horn and giving me direction on how to get started...
We noticed that inside the horn there were canals and intresting texture. I wanted to pull more out. Uncle Bruce helped me shave a bit of the bone off at an angle (it smelled like when you go to the dentist and you get your teeth ground down for a filling) so that I could start pulling out more of the intresting canals and textures. After a good long while I got it pretty much where I want it. Tomorrow I'll start using a smaller sander and maybe a file to define and detail.
I'm eager to get my hands on a digital camera so I can send you some images. Oh, remind me to document my work in progress! I always forget. (:
Apart from all that I'm doing well! I've got a great base tan and I'm real sore (in a good way) from all the activities. I've already started dropping weight. Yea!
Well, tucking in for dinner and more reading and a good hose down (I'm covered in bone dust).
I hope you all are well and I love you! I will be sending more news from Maui!
I've been staying in Uncle Bruce's house with him and my "cousin" Zach (sister of "cousin" Chelsea). We are right next door to the gallery, the studio, the sculpture garden and Steve and Christine's home.
Uncle Bruce's home is great for solitude, reading and sleeping, but Christine's house is great for glasses of wine, comedy and chatting. (I usually go there in the evenings)
I have so far gone fishing down the mountian nearby, BBQing at Uncle Bruce's new place up on the hill (absolutely breath taking!) and surfing. I have started a few blind contour paintings which turned out to look like black and white Japanese block prints (very minamilistic and pretty).
I've been talking to Christine, who runs the gallery and does sculpture herself, she is going to help me get started on some small sculptures that we'll be doing in water based clay and then putting in the kiln to burn before glazing. I'm going to use my contour drawings as inspiration for these sculptures... abstract figures.
Steve is going to show me how to use the mini electric saw so that I can begin a wood sculpture as well...
Today at the gallery I met one of their featured artists, Tom. He does realism still life. He uses oil paint on panel and lets the panel show through on bits of his paintings as part of his painting... hard to explain, but real neat! Here, see for yourself: http://www.turnbullstudios.org/galleryartists.html the wood you see in the painting is the actual panel he allows to show through. Pretty neat.
We talked a bit about painting, figures, light, photography, how photography affects painting and the tools classical painters pull from todays technology. It was fun. He seemed to be pretty impressed with my blind contour drawings. He had never heard of the concept before. I bet he went home and tried some. haha.
After, I grabbed the cow horn or perhaps buffalo horn and showed it to my uncle. He just turned it around and started examining the horn and giving me direction on how to get started...
We noticed that inside the horn there were canals and intresting texture. I wanted to pull more out. Uncle Bruce helped me shave a bit of the bone off at an angle (it smelled like when you go to the dentist and you get your teeth ground down for a filling) so that I could start pulling out more of the intresting canals and textures. After a good long while I got it pretty much where I want it. Tomorrow I'll start using a smaller sander and maybe a file to define and detail.
I'm eager to get my hands on a digital camera so I can send you some images. Oh, remind me to document my work in progress! I always forget. (:
Apart from all that I'm doing well! I've got a great base tan and I'm real sore (in a good way) from all the activities. I've already started dropping weight. Yea!
Well, tucking in for dinner and more reading and a good hose down (I'm covered in bone dust).
I hope you all are well and I love you! I will be sending more news from Maui!
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