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rough around the edges skip to main skip to sidebar rough around the edges exploring abstract art wednesday august 8 2018 moving time i m sure it must look like i ve given up blogging but i have just been busily building a new website i am now all packed up and moving my blog over there it has a fresher cleaner look and i m very happy with the ease of it all i ll be blogging regularly over there so i hope you ll join me https robinolsenart com posted by robin olsen at 5 06 pm 2 comments friday june 22 2018 finding the joy the mental shift that occurs throughout the course has to be the main benefit from doing nicholas wilton s cvp program i feel more deeply connected to my work and more committed to doing it i feel an eagerness to get to the studio and much of the fear and resistance has been removed i still have sticky points when i m afraid i ll mess up a painting that s going in a direction i like or when everything is in that yucky area of no direction at all but i have more confidence now that i can get through those periods by just showing up finding something i love and doing more of it nick teaches to find the joy in painting instead of allowing yourself to get sucked into self doubt and wallowing in a dead end if you like that little area of polka dots do more of them put polka dots all over your entire painting they might not remain in the end but they allow a shift to occur where you are painting from a place of spark and joy and that moves you forward painting on multiple panels at the same time is essential for this process if you find you don t know what to do or are getting negative about your painting it s time to move on to the next one painting will inform the next this little patch of turquoise against olive looks gorgeous here so let me try that combo in this painting that isn t working so well they lift each other up this painting is on my easel right now a work in progress it s at a stage where i m happy with the energy in it but need to do more and clean it up some i need to be open to the fact that i might kill what i love in the process and end up having to take the painting in an entirely new diretion it s hard not to tighten up at this point and hang on to what s working there but i m learning to accept what arises to eventually get a better painting who knows when that might occur but i have more faith now that it will posted by robin olsen at 5 00 am 1 comment labels abstract painting acrylic painting art2life course nicholas wilton creative visioning project thursday june 14 2018 getting my bearings the problem with stepping out of blogging for a while is it feels impossible to catch up i ve been on a whirlwind of travel and art classes and my thoughts are swirling in brief i took a beautiful cruise in the mediterranean with my mom came home and took a quick trip to california for my niece s graduation and now i hope not to leave home until next fall one of my big objectives for summer is to try to absorb what i ve been learning in nicholas wilton s cvp program i wasn t able to finish the last three weeks because of travel but we have access to the material for a whole year so after i finish the remaining lessons i think i ll go back slowly and revisit exercises and lectures there is such rich material in the course and so much of it that i still have quite a few hours of video to finish and a bonus 10 hour documentary of nick painting one of his large paintings from start to finish what a heavenly treat for summer afternoons the course was so profound to me and i want to talk about it but i still need to do a little digesting nick is so generous with his knowledge you really do feel like he holds nothing back usually i m hesitant to share what i ve learned in classes thinking that belongs to the teacher at the end of the cvp course nick said if this was valuable to you share what you learned with others who does that i ve never had a teacher say go out and share this information that i make a living on before so as i start to settle back into painting and have time to reflect i will be talking about the course more right now i want to step back into painting and need to loosen up working in class and trying to balance all the principles nick was covering left me painting very self consciously i m hoping the material will be absorbed soon and i ll not be thinking so much as i paint i decided to return to black and white as that always feels like a relief from too many color decisions and paint as freely as possible now i can go into analytic mind and come in and make some corrections but try not to lose that spontaneity another nice outcome from cvp is i felt encouraged to show some of my work i am thrilled that i applied to two juried gallery shows and had work accepted in both these two pieces are currently on show at gallery 114 in the pearl dist in portland or and up through the end of the month 1100 nw glisan st right across from dick blick they made a video of the show you can see here the theme is everything is music music often plays a big role in my painting and can determine the energy of a piece these are inspired by songs that make you want to dance this first one is called every little thing s gonna be alright and this one is blame it on the bossa nova this next piece will be in verum ultimum s living mark exhibition the show opens june 30 with a reception from 6 8 and runs through august 11th i m planning on being at the reception so hope you can stop by 3014 ne ainsworth portland or 97211 end of the day was inspired by a winter s walk at sunset everything was drab black and gray then the vibrant colors of the sun poked through posted by robin olsen at 4 38 pm no comments labels abstract painting acrylic painting gallery 114 nicholas wilton creative visioning project portland galleries verum ultimum gallery friday may 4 2018 texture it was texture week at cvp since we are working on wood panels there are lots of opportunities for scratching sanding gouging and scraping i don t know that i ll be doing any of those regularly but i did fall in love with using a trowel to put on thick smooth layers of paint and i do love the depth you can get with some texturing techniques this first piece had sanding and glazing and scratching those opaque white areas were put on with the trowel i probably went a little trowel crazy on this one but i adore those smooth creamy surfaces and they are perfect for drawing back into and for revealing bits of color underneath i ll be away traveling for a while and won t be posting until the end of the month i m sad i have to miss the last two weeks of cvp but we have all year to revisit it i ll be catching up then and reflecting on what i have learned from the whole thing posted by robin olsen at 5 00 am no comments labels abstract painting acrylic painting nicholas wilton creative visioning project friday april 27 2018 rest week we were given a week off from cvp to rest catch up explore whatever we wanted without any new lessons it was a much needed break from having something new come at you almost every day as much as i love that abundance it was a good week for me to sit and absorb some of the lessons we had been covering revisit a few things and mainly think about my direction i played with more layers on my larger panels without giving much thought yet to the principles i need to incorporate i continued working on the smaller ones mainly i took some time to think about my own voice and what is important to me as much as we are encouraged to work in our own style it s a little hard to know how to do that from nick s demos his work is so shape heavy and that forms the basis of his lessons it s easier to see his principles at work when you are working with clear shapes so i ve tried to do that in my panels even though they often don t feel like me this week i went through all my pinterest boards and my old work and made notes about those things that resonate most strongly with me i do like a fair amount of structure in my work and it s easier to see the principles of differences and value shifts at work in a more structured piece my big challenge now is how to keep that raw energy i love while also working with some underlying structure i love the random marks and brushstrokes but it s easy to muddle up the piece with them i think this next piece starts to incorporate both randomness and structure so many things to ponder along the way and today we add the whole new element of texture to the mix i imagine many of my earlier pieces will be due for a total makeover posted by robin olsen at 5 00 am 2 comments labels abstract painting acrylic painting nicholas wilton creative visioning project friday april 20 2018 good days and bad one of my favorite parts about nick wilton s creative visioning program is we spend lots of time talking about the process and how to create a sustainable art practice we have some fantastic coaches who delve into the psychology of art making and address all the ups and downs the fears and the enthusiasm the progress and the set backs we are encouraged to journal about what works for us what we love what we resist and over and over we talk about the good days and the bad ones for me the bad ones occur about every other day and i m starting to find ways of accepting that and moving through it nick s whole approach is you bring to the canvas whatever you are dealing with that day so if you are bored your paintings are boring if you are excited your paintings are exciting the trick is to move on if you are not loving what you are doing by having lots of pieces going there should always be some pieces you are not too attached to low stakes pieces that make it easy to go in and make big changes the deeper into this program i get the more i am loving that approach it makes it so much easier to get to the studio when i know there will be something there that i enjoy doing right now i have these low stake pieces on my easel and started making big changes to them i have 3 bigger panels with 3 layers of paint troweled on a very soothing process when nothing else is working i have a few pieces i just covered in gloss medium and am debating if i want to call them done or add some glazing to soften them and i am trying to rescue a favorite brush i forgot to wash damn again posted by robin olsen at 5 00 am no comments labels abstract painting acrylic painting nicholas wilton creative visioning project friday april 13 2018 taking it all in i have turned myself over to the twelve weeks of my nicholas wilton creative visioning project class and now that we are in week 7 i m wondering how much more i can hold my sketchbook is full of notes ideas inspirations practical advice i watch the videos of everything from cleaning a paintbrush who knew you should always dip it in water before you begin painting to showing up fully and revealing yourself in your paintings i m obsessed and even lose sleep over it thankfully we get a week long break after next week right now we are in a deep experimental mode here are the boards i posted last week and those same boards this week better no i probably don t even like them as well as last weeks but we are experimenting trying to find differences and building up layers for future work while i ve been working on the lessons i ve also been painting in my usual style and seeing how much i ve absorbed without giving it a lot of thought the lessons we get over and over are about creating high value contrasts moving the eye and creating lots of differences it s challenging to move back and forth between keeping fresh and spontaneous and being analytical there are so many things to keep in balance that i never seem to be fully satisfied there s always a bit more tweaking to do i m excited that we move on to glazes and creating depth this week o1ne more challenge to add to the equation posted by robin olsen at 5 00 am 3 comments labels abstract 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