The Collaboration Journal
The Collaboration JournalFriday, February 3, 2012It was great fun starting off the collaboration today. I’m excited to see where we go from here. The evolution of the design will certainly grow to a...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012Starting out on this huge panel is very intimidating, but I gathered my courage and gave it a shot! I went for a composition with strong diagonals to lead your eye across the...
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"The Sea"Tuesday, February 07, 2012 – Nan FuhrmanI have added a few bits of color (since Jordan wanted this panel to be in color) just to get color going. Feel absolutely free to undue what I have...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Hi, I’m the next artist. I looked at the drawing as if it were a Rorschach test, and let it speak to me. Wanting to bring out spatial depth, contrast, and...
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February 9,2012Wow! The Sea! We were inspired by the orange and added more color and free form organic shapes. The painting needed grounding so we added a piece of coral to take the focus away from...
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February 11, 2012It takes a lot of paint to cover this panel! I’m not used to such a large scale. Even mixing paint was a challenge. I hope you all like bold colors. My favorite part is where the...
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February 12, 2012I was so excited to participate in this collaborative effort to be able to work together with other artist and cannot wait to see how this painting evolves and how we “resolve” it. As...
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February 13, 2012I added some “fur” to the wolf. I wanted to balance some of the sienna color from the middle of the drawing. Then, I had to think… wolf… hunter… eerier looking woods… little red...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012: Happy Birthday Jordan!!!I was immediately struck by how strong this piece seemed to be becoming: the monochrome scheme gives it power and the elongated horizontal...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 Happy Birthday Jordan!!!Wow! What a dynamic and colorful piece this is becoming! I like its diagonals and the variety of shapes (both geometric and organic) as well as the...
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February 22nd 2012Parvaneh Limbert, Ann Bolster, and I work independently using blues and greens, reds and purples, and yellows and oranges. We continued to strengthen the colors and texture thru out...
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February 23, 2012Today brought us back into the tower to see the creative masterpieces done by our colleagues. Wow, so much has happened since we were here Feb. 9. We changed the Sky to feel as if a...
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February 27thJordan stopped in and suggested toning down some of the colors – “a little more mud,” he said. He also suggested bringing Venus’ hair all the way across to the blue wave near the other...
View Article13th Annual High School Exhibition
I am pleased announce the participants of the 13 Annual, Friends of the Yellow Barn High School Exhibition. Our judge, Paul Wilson, viewed over 145 works by young artists from DC, Maryland, and...
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Check out the new restaurant at Glen Echo Park! Great place to get food before or after class! http://www.gazette.net/article/20120328/NEWS/703289440&template=gazette
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2nd Annual, Yellow Barn Drawing Exhibition Labor Day Weekend at the Yellow Barn Studio and GalleryJ. Jordan Bruns, in cooperation with The Friends of the Yellow Barn, is holding a drawing exhibition...
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