Winter Studio Art Workshops

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surface Swirl
Digital photograph
2009

My winter Session #1 workshop is scheduled and open for sign-ups. Please email me if you’re interested in reserving a spot for this session. bskgibbs@aol.com

Studio Art Workshops with Becky Gibbs
59 Fountain Street, Third Floor East, #9
Framingham MA 01702
www.beckykgibbs.wordpress.com
www.FountainStreetStudios.com

2010 Schedule – Winter Session #1
Thursday mornings, 9:30-12:30
January 7, 14, 21, 28,
February 4, 11
All levels welcome. Cost: $300.00 per six-week session

Studio Art Workshops with Becky Gibbs cover a variety of subjects, including: drawing from observation, drawing to abstraction, exploring drawing media, color theory, paint mixing, abstract & realistic painting, and brushwork technique. Classes will be tailored to students’ abilities and interests. Ongoing individual instruction is part of the workshop series. Minimum two, maximum six students per session, private lessons are available. (Email for cost.) Existing groups are welcome to schedule their own time slot. Supply list provided at signup.

studio heat 09

Painting in the studio in August is a challenge, especially when it’s around 90 degrees outside, and lots higher in the studio with no AC.  I’ve got a fan, but really, it’s not big enough for the heat some days. So my favorite thing to paint on a hot day is something cool and blue and waterlike…here’s some new abstract work that’s been coming together this summer,  oil paints with powdered pigments in medium, very experimental for me, and I’m not really sure if they’re done, or not?

                             Don’t be the bunny #1
                             2009

                            Don’t be the bunny #2
                            2009

                           Don’t be the bunny #3
                           2009

                            Don’t be the bunny #4
                            2009

Open studios

The artists at Fountain Street Studios are continuing our First Friday Studio Strolls through May. In April, the 13th Annual Fountain Street Open Studios weekend will be April 3-5. Friday from 5:30-8:30 will be the preview party, and Saturday and Sunday we’ll be open 11am-5pm. Please stop by my studio, 3rd floor east, no. 9, to see me and my work. Drop me an email if you’d like to be added to my mailing list (email and/or snail mail.) check out the list of artists at: www.fountainstreetstudios.com

Here’s a new piece I finished last month, and started on the day the stock market plunged. I decided to call it Pooring down, that’s what the day was like, that’s what the markets were doing, and the piece turned out very dark, unlike others in my Mindbug series.

Pooring down
2008
30″(H) x 22″(W)
India ink and powdered pigments in acrylic medium on paper

studio freeze

Mind(e)scape
2008
18″(H) x 24″(W)
mixed media

so now we have 20 degree weather here in NE and my studio was so cold that I wanted some of those fingerless gloves. oh well, I started a new ink series that is really interesting and  had me excited to keep working.  I’ll post my mind(e)scape, but I’m psyched to show the new stuff at my Friday Stroll at my studio December 5??

hope to see you there.

so…also let me tell you that mindescape was a long intensive drawing to finish and not only is it a scape from mind but it was especially an escape to my mind.

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Open Studios

It’s been a fun week with alot of friends and visitors at my First Friday Studio Stroll and Open Studios.

I got some great feedback on my work, and many especially liked my imaginary creatures from the “Caledenia Novemtentaculus” series that I’ll post today.

Thanks to all who stopped by my studio.

 

 

Cell walk

Great news in the mail today, one of my pieces, Cell walk, was accepted in the 14th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Zullo Gallery in Medfield, MA. The show will be up September 13-October 26, 2008. There’s a reception on Saturday, Sept 27, 7-9pm if anyone wants to attend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cell walk
2008
watercolor and ink on paper

studio heat

so despite the heat I have been working in my studio alot this week(fountain st studios, 3rd floor east, no. 9) and without my fan it would be miserable. I finished two paintings and a drawing this week that had been sitting there looking at me while I looked at them. they told me how to finish them so I did. I guess my work was heating up right along with the weather. Here’s this drawing, Plume,  it’s all about a cool plume of water, that I really like, part of my india ink series.

Plume

2008

24″ x 18″

pen & ink on paper

one hot day

so I start with swimming my laps,(7:45am) and proceed to my studio where it’s like 90 degrees at 9:30am, then go to the food project this afternoon to get our weekly produce, and there it’s about 95, and then I go to ali’s swim meet and keep score at 5pm and there it’s probably 100. I love summer but this is hot. Here’s one of the pieces I worked on today. It’s about the Sudbury River and its sorry state of mercury contamination. It’s really not quite done.

SuAsCo Fiasco, 18′ x 24″

2008

pen & ink on paper

Space Between

Space Between is an india ink drawing with Prismacolor. It is one of the first pieces in my “Mindbug” series, based on india ink washes layered with other media.