Tonight the art class I teach resumes after a two-week hiatus for Christmas and New Year's celebrations. I can't say enough how much I missed my class.
As with nearly everything, the new year brings new energy and so for my art class I've been creating a curriculum and am excited about it.
Normally our class is loosely-structured as an open studio. I won't be changing this aspect, but I'll be adding an optional month-long assignment for the entire year. Like anything new, we'll see how it goes. I'm hopeful everyone will want to participate and, at year's end (hard to think about now at the year's start) we'll have a wondrous bulk of work created which we'll all look at with pride.
Tonight is the first assignment and I have some pressure on myself to make sure that, out of the gate, this new aspect of my class is met with excitement. So I'm starting with a good one: COLOR!
Color is a critical part of any art---even the non-"fine" arts like graphic design or even culinary arts. In painting it's nearly everything. And so the first assignment is for my students to make a color wheel in their chosen medium. There is something so beautifully academic about a color wheel.
To put this color study to use, we're going to do some painting. I'll describe that in my next post.
Until then....
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