The Group of Seven Festival was held over due to rain. The artists are painting outdoors, the weather therefore playing an important role. The public is invited to participate in the art work, by actually painting part of the canvas. The artist working on this particular painting was great at guiding us through the layering process to get the right colours. He also took the time to share with us why the group of seven is such an incredible group of artists. He picked one particular painting, showing us how the light took the viewer from one corner of the art piece following the lines around all four corners covering the whole painting, then bringing your eye back to the beginning. He shared the importance of the short yet prominent brush strokes to the effect of the painting. Insights we totally appreciated.
We are thrilled to have contributed to a painting we helped reproduce, will be displayed for all to see.
The painting is a reproduction of J.E.H. MacDonald's Wild River, 1919.
1 comment:
How cool that you can participate like that!
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