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Work in progress: Update on the narrative painting

Work in progress: Update on the narrative painting. The base colors are down and details are starting to take shape. Still a ways to go, but it’s inching its way along! #hannahbetzelfineart #narrativeart #iconicart #oilpainting

Figure drawing from class this morning. We do seve

Figure drawing from class this morning. We do several warm up gesture drawings (about 6 one minute poses), a couple 3-5 min poses, a couple 10 min poses, a couple 20 or 30 min poses, and if there’s time we do a 50 min pose. By the time class ends, I’m warmed up and ready to start drawing for reals. 😂 #figuredrawing

Studies in charcoal from a still life set up for a

Studies in charcoal from a still life set up for a Cubist style painting in one of my classes. I shared this pic in stories recently but wanted to post here so you can see the progression. Will start the painting tomorrow. This class is an abstract painting class, which I was so dang nervous about bc abstract has been ✨my thing✨ since 2015! Like, if I turn out to be awful in the academic world of abstract painting (What if I suck at this class?!!), that could be pretty embarrassing and cause me to question everything I’ve ever painted before rt? 😅😂 BUT….I’m getting what I came here for and SO MUCH MORE. For a few years now, I’ve been trying to connect more with my art. I have ALWAYS loved creating, but why?? Why do I paint what I paint? Why do certain colors, styles, compositions flow from my brush? Why do I NEED to create (for me, it’s an absolute necessity; I wouldn’t know what to be if not someone who creates). This class, along with every single class I’ve taken so far, is giving me so much insight into the why behind my own work as well as broadening the way that can be communicated. Cubism has always looked kinda cool to me, but never as interesting as other types of art so I never paid it much attention; with the exception of Picasso of course (whose art I like but his character was shit, just like many male artists at that time). This project and the history/purpose of the style has me hooked though! I want to run back to every cubist painting I’ve ever seen in person and look at it again now that I understand it. Excited to get started on the painting tomorrow! 👩🏼‍🎨 #artschooldiaries #cubism

Work in progress: Session 1 on my first painting o

Work in progress: Session 1 on my first painting of the spring semester for ARST 3145:The Figure as Subject and the Narrative Impulse! Our assignment is to come up with a myth and we are to paint in an Iconic style (meaning we are using icons; think ancient Egyptian art, cave paintings, 11/12th century Romanesque, very simplified forms). We could completely make up a myth or use a pivotal moment in our lives as the basis of our narrative. I chose the latter and will explain this painting more as it evolves! The colors will change (maybe a little, maybe a lot!) as this is the ground layer and I aim to have just pops of these brighter colors showing through. But as always, I will listen to the art and go where it takes me. 💗 #hannahbetzelfineart #lamardodd #uga #iconicart #botanicalgardens

Sunday funday. Playing with homemade blueberry ink

Sunday funday. Playing with homemade blueberry ink. This color is gorgeous! 💜 #inkdrawing #earthpigments

Late night in the studio. I’m quite frustrated w

Late night in the studio. I’m quite frustrated with a painting I’m working on rn but trying to push through it! Not sure if it’s in its ugly phase or if it’s just ugly. 😂 Send halp!

My first semester back @uga_dodd_art is over (with

My first semester back @uga_dodd_art is over (with the exception of one last painting to turn in next week). I’m exhausted and incredibly grateful for the opportunity to finish my art degree. I’m also incredibly grateful for you all here. You’ve shown me so much support and encouragement and made being vulnerable enough to share my progress publicly easier. Thank you for sticking with me while I show less abstract work and more randomness. I truly could not have imagined a better first semester back or better professors than what I received. For the first time ever, I didn’t want classes to end. I will be doing a wrap up on my pitifully neglected blog & website soon to share more of what I’ve learned and what it has been like being older in art school (spolier, it’s awesome!). This image shows a very small sampling of work from this fall. Perhaps I’ll do a video showing more (the good, bad, and ugly!). Lmk if that’s something you’d be interested in! Love to you all. ✨ - Hannah .
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