CURRENT WORK with GURU JIM PARADIS

Professor Jim Paradis gave his Advanced Design students a challenge to create a painting that illustrated the principles of design he has been teaching them for the past five years:  Harmony, balance, limited palette, focus point, asymetricality, uneven negative space, rhythm and movement, color and value....and above all, deliberate composition.  

The results, a culmination of five years of studying with Prof. Paradis, are

posted below.

Tangerine by Bill Tibbs, Collage and Acrylic

Emma by Anne Kent, oil pastels

San Francisco by Diane Dathe, collage and acrylic

Space to Breathe by Jane Hink, collage

Haru by Marilyn Murata, collage

Loose Fruit by Joan Fury, drawing

Kraken and Daisy by Barbara Gottesman, collage

Marilyn Murata's Happy Dot, a Collage from the last exhibit, sold for $190

Currently the group is working on learning to critique their own work and the

work of others by practicing with the Elements of Composition.

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun. It shines everywhere."

William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

Independent Study Group with Professor Jim Paradis

The Square Pegs

Art is not a job or a skill.  It is a way of walking through life.

A different way of looking at art: studying the different genres and movements in art by creating paintings or sculpture in the manner of the genre or period.

Cubism............abstraction

Kraken and Daisy by Gottesman

San Francisco by Dathe

Tangerine by Tibbs

Loose Fruit by Fury

Emma by Kent

Haru by Murata

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Space to Breathe by Hink