Well, I was supposed to go to Jamaica for spring break. That trip got canceled...but I still have to spend the next few weeks completing coursework as if I had actually visited the country in order to fulfill the Jamaican Art History course through MSSU. Our course provides the artwork for the 'Caribbean Semester' exhibit next fall, which is the first event in the themed semester on campus. I have to create artwork about a trip I did not take. Neat.
Luckily, I have actually ben to Jamaica. I have several ideas about how I might proceed, but I'm still working things out in my mind. I'm inspired by Albert Huie's landscape paintings. Particularly the idea that he painted a lot of plants that were not native to Jamaica, but his paintings make up nearly all of the quintessential 'Jamaican' landscape genre paintings. I am planning to paint local landscapes in oil, focusing on the flowering trees that are not native to Missouri. I will be creating a collection of acrylic and oil paintings--doing some in plein air--and then picking a few to make larger. I'm not sure how many of those I will paint, depends on the weather. I visited Jamaica in 2007 and 2011, so I want to look back through my photos from those experiences, and consider how I might incorporate those images into my work...I also have a couple of carved wooden sculptures from Jamaica, I thought about setting those up and doing some still life studies. I have a self-portrait in watercolor from 2011, that I might revisit as I started it and never finished it... As you can see, my thoughts are kind of all over the place....I am just going to start making work and see what happens! I promise, I will have the focus narrowed down the next couple of weeks... For now, I just need a few perfect days while the trees are in bloom!
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