Artist of the Month - March 2015
Joyce Peterson with "Forest Medley"
Our March “Artist-Of-The-Month” winner was Joyce Peterson. She had been working on a landscape that had inspired her, and was searching for the "right feeling" of shady paths and roads through the forest. She had set the watercolor painting aside for a while and came back to it at a much later time. Joyce resumed her work, using a composite of liquid watercolor. She experimented with additional washes of colors on her original painting.
While in art class, Joyce cropped her original watercolor into six little miniatures paintings, finding a focal point for each one. She used six little identical “found” matts and placed the grouping on a larger matt board. Art colleagues were cheering her on and having fun watching the creative process unfold. Someone had an extra frame to donate and somehow the mini paintings with the name “Forest Medley” came together. She was so pleased with the serendipity of the moment and the sense of community that the paintings had created.
While in art class, Joyce cropped her original watercolor into six little miniatures paintings, finding a focal point for each one. She used six little identical “found” matts and placed the grouping on a larger matt board. Art colleagues were cheering her on and having fun watching the creative process unfold. Someone had an extra frame to donate and somehow the mini paintings with the name “Forest Medley” came together. She was so pleased with the serendipity of the moment and the sense of community that the paintings had created.