Painting I, spring 2012

Some of these paintings are all "firsts" for each of the students.  Their first non-representational, first landscape.  Other students had had painting in high school and were allowed to choose their own subject matter.  Hope you enjoy the variety of subjects and styles.

Shane Hubert's first landscape

Jade Holt's first landscape

Jade Holt's first painting, a non-representational

by Logan Stallbaumer

by Logan Stallbaumer

Logan's car paintings shown together

The next two paintings are a collaboration by Kayla Bartlett, Chapman, and Andrew Horn, Mankato.  They had been tossing around some ideas for a collaboration and came up with this nine panel painting of a cup of coffee.  Each took half of the panels to paint, trying to meld their own styles, Kayla's very loose painterly style with Andrew's very structured, detail oriented style.  It was interesting to watch them work out their different styles into one that worked for both of them.  After they completed the successful painting, we discussed how they were going to hang it on the wall.  While we were talking,  we started talking about puzzles and Kayla and Andrew started switching the panels around.  We decided it would be fun to be able to display this piece in multiple ways, so i suggested mounting the panels on small strips of wood with velcro attached on the back of the panels.  That way the panels could be mounted in any order.  They loved the idea and finished the painting be painting 1"x 2" boards black, adding adhesive backed velcro to the boards and the middle of the back of the panels.  They are thrilled with the results and have several ideas for future projects of multiple panel paintings mounted in this way.