Jane davies

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Last weekend we made a big fat mess at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont. This time I approached the workshop a little differently than in the past, based on recent work in my own studio. First we made big fat lines and marks using paint and drawing materials. Then we created some collage fodder in color, including line and and pattern. The Big Fat Art pieces began with either collage (using said fodder) or paint, but ultimately made use of both. Helen Day Art Center furnishes us…

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Commitment to process is an important key to getting unstuck. We have a habit of focusing on results, setting expectations, and making judgements accordingly. We want to know how things will turn out; we want to avoid uncertainty by planning, so that we get it ‘right’. While this habit of planning for results is essential for most activities in our lives (I don’t dispute the value of planning!), it does seem to be one of the main reasons that we get stuck as artists. Making some marks, the…

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Date Recorded: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Medium: Mixed Media Join Jane Davies as she takes you through her process of building a painting. She will share thoughts on tools and techniques and take your questions. Jane Davies is a full time artist working in collage, painting, and encaustic. She offers workshops at her studio and nationwide, focusing on helping people to find a personal and playful approach to art. Beginning as a potter in the early nineties, selling her colorful hand-painted…

Jane Davies visionary abstract artist and educator based in Vermont.

I’ve been exploring slightly figurative images, wondering where these characters come from and what they are doing in my sketchbook. Maybe they are the beginnings of stories, or just a tempor…

Often composition is equated to planning, as if you could compose first (i.e. plan out the painting) and then paint, or execute the plan. Some artists and teachers use the terms Design and Composition interchangeably,both meaning to plan. And this approach works for many artists, but not for me. Take a look at my Technique Takeaway coming up, Composition as Process. Pink Shape, 9x12" This sense of composition may be analogous to a piece of music that is written out before it is played, a…