Week 7: Acrylic Color Play - Tropical Light and Color : Musings, Thoughts, and Creativity Matters

Contact Us
We would love to hear from you!!
News & Features
« Week 6: Sharpening... | Main | Week 8: Mixed Media... »

Week 7: Acrylic Color Play - Tropical Light and Color

by Jill Austen on 02/20/15

At the end of week 7, working with tropical light and colors primarily in acrylics, here is what I know (direct quotes from my journal):

1) I've mixed a lot of colors, many of which I do not like except for the cadmium yellow medium and alizarin crimson
2) Still working on those turquoises and pinks - they are impossible colors
3) The details included in these small paintings is ridiculous 
4) I seem to be complicating issues rather than simplifying 
5) 2:00am is an inner critic trap! 
6) I feel a great sense of achievement and growth (by not falling into that abyss) 
7) In no way am I finished with these subjects, but I've enjoyed the vicarious warmth, while sub-zero winds continue to blow outside my New York studio.

Comments (0)


Leave a comment


« Week 6: Sharpening... | Main | Week 8: Mixed Media... »
Jill Austen Bio

residencies, performances and exhibits throughout the US, Mexico and the Caribbean. Teaching opportunities have taken her to Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the College of the Bahamas in Nassau.Her poetry was first published in Leaf Garden Press in 2009, and her first collection, In Search of Orion, is nearing completion. Jill has been a featured poet at OPEN Expressions in Harlem, the Ipswich Roadpoets Café, in Ipswich, MA and a guest of the Poets Network & Exchange, NY. She is interested in the connection between the mundane and the metaphysical, in the small moments that illuminate life’s larger truths. Her inner gypsy is happy to call New York City home. 



NY TIMES REVIEW 
‘Cerchio Tagliato dei Suoni’ at the Guggenheim Museum - BY STEVE SMITH
Salvatore Sciarrino’s soundscape “Cerchio Tagliato dei Suoni” (“Cutting the Circle of Sounds”), a piece for 104 flutists, had its United States premiere at the Guggenheim on November 19, 2012
POETRY in the MOM EGG REVIEW, Dec. 2105 http://www.themomegg.com/themomegg/
VOX_MOM/Entries/2015/12/30_VOX_MOM__
Guest_Curator_Lorraine_Currelley.html
Click on the link to read Jill's recently published poem, "Giverny, France"

POETRY in Blue Door Quarterly, Fall 2015 
"One Hundred Midsummers Between Us", published in the poetry and art journal of Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers, NY
http://bluedoorartcenter.org 

FESTIVAL OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN COMPOSERS held in Nassau, Bahamas, Feb 20-25 featured "Waltz of the Flamingoes", for flute and piano which Jill recorded with acclaimed Bahamian composer Audrey Dean-Wright in December 2012.
Jill Austen lives a multidisciplinary life, embracing creativity through music, art and poetry. To this end she has created Austen Academy, offering a series of integrated arts workshops which explore individuality and the creative process. Jill holds degrees in music from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the University of Minnesota, where she also studied visual arts and art history. She is a juried associate member of the Pastel Society of America. As both flutist and visual artist she has enjoyed