Artist & Attorney Stefania Salles Bruins on "How to Work Your Lawyer-Trained Brain to Strengthen Your Cranial Nerve 2" Part II - A 2ND Saturday Conversation
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Cover photograph credit: Jessica Minor
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Show Notes:
1:20 intro and background
2:40 Slide 4 - Overview of Part I: 6 & ½ tips & tricks: 1 – perspective & point of view; 2 – Light; 2-1/2 – shadow; 3 – value / contrast; 4 – temperature; 5 – depth and illusion of 3-D; 6 – line
5:00 Slide 5: Point 7 - Brushstrokes
6:35 thickness of paint
7:00 blending with dry brush
8:00 Slide 6: Point 8 - Layering
9:40 ‘fat over lean’ rule
11:15 scumble – layer of opaque white
11:30 glaze – transparent layer over an underpainting
12:40 Slide 7: Point 9 - Paint as a Language
15:50 Slide 8: Point 10 - The Figure
19:45 Slide 9: Point 11 – The Palette
32:40 glazing
33:50 Slide 10: Point 12 – Studio Practice
42:50 figurative group show with artist from Hip Bone Art Studio
43:45 process of applying to shows
45:00 narrative/figurative and surrealist approach to still life work
46:05 artist statements
48:45 sharing WIP and final works
51:20 connection to the cranial optic nerve – thinking with our eyes when painting
1:00:00 painting from imagination with focus on ‘technique in service of art’
1:02:10 how to deal with writers’ block and painters’ block
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Music by Toulme.
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