![]() ![]() How working from inside the animal alters painting. Ideas of Taoist/Confusion painting with single brush stroke/chinese charactersĤ. Understanding of local sea creature behaviourĢ. I guess what we were trying to achieve in this class was an –ġ. A very valiant and lively attempt at capturing the behaviours of the sea creatures was made by all. There were some stunning sea creatures painted later including some jellyfish which really captured the creatures movement with some great dry brushing. We all went out to the oval in the sun and the students took on the form of their favourite Bonney Upwelling creature. The afternoon class really excelled today. We looked at a few examples of ancient and modern Asian Ink and brush paintings of animals to assist us along the way. ![]() I guess it is a way of seeing from within the animal and trying to capture its energy rather than physical form. The big question today was what if you painted animal from the perspective of being inside that animals mind and body? What would you paint? What would you be trying to capture? It’s a completely different way of seeing. Today our aim was to combine everything we have learnt so far to create three images on three pieces of encyclopedia paper to use in one large image, down the track. ![]() And even though you can’t really fail in this project its great to see students be happy for other students in the class who excel in this field. So far the students at Narrawong have demonstrated a real ability to be kind to their fellow students and support each other during class. Or in other words the ability to fail, to not be the best and still thrive and enjoy what they are doing. He talked about resilient children having a charismatic adult in their lives who modelled, among other things, the ability to name and recognise thoughts and feelings, demonstrated good anger management and conflict resolution skills and who helped a child identify their passion or what they were good at and supported them to embrace it.Ī day later a friend popped by and she told me that her version of resilience in children was their ability to demonstrate kindness and admiration of people who do well in life, especially in the field where the child’s passion lies. He was a pretty entertaining fellow and had some interesting things to say. This was coincidental, in a way, since I’d just been to see a gentleman called Dr Michael Carr Gregg give a public talk about resilience in kids. ![]() These larger works are based on the Indian Miniatures such as the one at the top of the page.Īs a side, today, a teacher said that a particular student was resilient. Students then cut out their images and arranged them onto a much larger sea animal to make a large sea creature from the Upwelling made up of a composite of smaller sea creatures. Acrylic paint really responds to layering and then we popped a bit of detail and some shadows and Volia. We have been building up the images with different layers of acrylic paint. It is a humbling experience being at Narrawong and District Primary School. “2 Humpback Whales 300 metres offshore from the Water Tower at Portland” “Cat we have humpback whales passing Portland don’t we?”Īnd this was in my email when I got home – We are moving to Australia and I’d like to get these two insured, so if anyone can help with valuation I’d greatly appreciate it.I was having a crazy conversation with a student in the art room today about whales – it went something like this – Not a big time collector, but pretty cool we have a little part in the lexicon of Martin Whatson’s work. It’s pretty cool that our commissioned pieces soon after became a print. I also liked his other animal pieces so I asked him to do two tigers.Ĭustom framing to match the painting done by Framing Devil in LA. We both love tigers and was born on the year of the tiger, so I figured it was the perfect gift. One for my office and one for her (hers nicknamed Love Kat because her name is Kate, her nickname is Kitty Kat, and her painting has “Kat” with a heart around it. So for my wife’s 30th birthday I had two nearly matching pieces commissioned from him. I like Martin’s work because it’s bright, whimsical and reminds me of old school tags I use to see around LA. So the story goes, I’ve always liked street art since I was little, especially the colors. I’ve had these two matching pieces by Martin since 2016 and wanted to share them and also get a valuation for insurance purposes. Martin Whatson Artwork, VALUATION, by J Kwon on 18:52:43 GMT 1, Hey guys, ![]()
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