On Monday in painting, we finished our painting without a model, which was difficult but it turned out pretty well. I’m happy with how my painting turned out, it was definitely a challenge to work from memory and also interesting to work from a few works by other painters. On Wednesday, we had a new model come in and started a new painting.
On Friday, a few friends and I went to First Friday at the Thayer st. Galleries in the south end. There were a lot of awesome shows up, including work at Kingston gallery by my contemporary trends professor, Celine Browning! Her show, Skinned, is about repurposing common objects to show their functions and how they reflect their owners. I really enjoyed her sculptures pictured here, which are made of a female and male model skeleton set. The piece is titled Portrait of CB and ATS, and Celine talked to us about how the piece shows the fragility of a domestic partnership, and is actually the two heights of her and her husband! I also liked the work of Karl Stevens, who has portraits, sketches and comics up at Carroll & Sons.
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