Painting Reality to Abstraction Workshop - November 2016

Unfinished painting by Pam 2016

Recently I taught a fully booked class called Painting Reality to Abstraction.  Prior to the class I asked the artists to do some preparation work. At the beginning of the class we discussed abstract art in general and had a look at some paintings as examples including work by Joseph Turner, Emile Nolde, David Hockney and Pablo Picasso.  I gave a brief talk on what is reality which lightly touched upon quantum physics.  We then discussed ways of breaking down what we see and the way we see, such as removing all the detail from an object and changing is colour.  

The paintings  you see here were created during the workshop.  Some paintings are more abstract than others, but all are successful in grasping the concept of changing reality to abstraction to different degrees.  

Original painting by Janice 2016

Original painting by Meryel 2016

Original painting by Janet 2016

Original painting by Diana 2016

Original painting by Kevin 2016

Original painting by Vicki 2016

Original painting by Julie 2016

Original painting by Vicki 2016

Original painting by Geoff 2016

Original painting by Mandy 2016

Original painting by Liz 2016

Original painting by Linda 2016

Thank you to everyone who took part in the course and for allowing me to show the work on this blog.

Next week the blog post will be about the upcoming courses for 2017!  

Watch this space!!

Happy painting

Lee