A recent workshop at Morean Arts Center was a refreshing surprise. The 4-day workshop, "The Interaction of Color", was deftly presented by Laura Militzer Bryant, of Prisim Yarns, here is St Petersburg. Her discussions were based on a course she attended that was developed by Joseph Albers of Bauhaus fame. I have to say, it is difficult to look at colored objects without triggering insights gained from that workshop. 

Coincidentally, I just finished reading a biography of JMW Turner, the landscape/seascape painter who is the core of Tate Britain. Turner's work took a distinct change after first seeing the luminosity of Claude Lorrain's landscape paintings, and studying Wolfgang Goethe's "Theory of Color." It was, Albers who later consolidated and amplified multiple color theories, building upon Geothe, and others, into the course he taught at the Bauhaus titled, "Intersection of Color"; the course Laura highlighted. Color placements and "weight" do in fact alter how we recognize other ojects, sometimes producing the luminosity of Lorrain and Turner.

Here it is before (colors are a little off) August 2018:

Here's a reworking of the existing painting after the course, with some thought from the worksop(January 2018)

One more modification: February 2019

PS. Michealangelo often commented a painting is never finished, just abandoned. More changes will certainly follow, until sold or abandoned. 

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