central park--sheep's meadow

oil on panel, 9x12
No class for a few weeks and I thought I would paint outside everyday. I didn't. Tim Dosé let me tag along one day & I started this little painting. We're looking north toward the Dakota. I need to put in the people. The little people.

I think this painting is cute.

Drawing - Two: Collage

The conceit of this exercise is that it's an aerial landscape viewed from 1000 feet above. We're supposed to ignore fussy details in favor of composition/patterning. Not that I really understand what's going on!

We took one of our own keys and drew it, rotated the paper one turn and drew the key again, rotated the paper another turn and redrew the key, and so on.

Then we glued on junk and colored it! It's art, yo.

My teacher gathers detritus from the streets every single day. Every day. He says he has about 500 baggies full right now. Like whoa. And wow. He uses the storage baggie size and stuffs in all the day's treasures. He told me that he has zero personal interaction with anybody on the streets because his eyes are constantly scanning the ground. Lucky me. The stuff that was in my bag was SO GOOD. I flipped for that card tag with the string attached and had a "my precious, precious" moment. When he saw what I'd grabbed up, my teacher said that when he first saw the tag on the ground, he nearly had a stroke. That is the appropriate response.

Here are some of the baggie's contents scattered around me while I'm deciding what to glue on.

Drawing at the Met - Central Park

These are from the last day of class.
The tree is near the east end of the little Turtle Pond. I like this tree drawing. I never could draw a tree before. The building is Belvedere Castle from across the Pond. It was a hot day and I sat in the shade of a willow tree for both sketches.

Drawing at the Met - the yearning cow

This is a drawing from a painting is called Young Herdsman With Cows by Aelbert Cuyp. Obvs, I didn't quite get to the young herdsman. No time, no time.