Friday, October 1, 2021

 A GREAT WORKSHOP

By MARILYN EIMON

Dustan Knight always has great workshops, but this one was outstanding.

She presented a process that Lewis Noble uses to create abstract paintings. We were quickly engaged.


On location we generated quick paintings reflecting our impression and experience of the location.


Using simple supplies – acrylics, pencils, etc., and painting with our fingers on ordinary paper.

We were at three different locations – The Marginal Way, Perkins Cove, and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine.








When back at the house, we tore our paintings to assemble and create collages into “new paintings”, which we pasted in a notebook.





The last morning we chose parts of 3 of our “new paintings” that spoke to us to help generate a new painting. It was fun, engaging and expanded our artistic repertoire.