Zoey Frank

  Zoey Frank

Zoey Frank

After listening to this lecture I feel a kinship to Zoey Frank. For years I have been painting in the traditional manner of drawing a study then a value study and then transposing that exact composition to the canvas, however I found it more interesting to go directly into painting without all the precision and exactness and allowing for imperfections and for happy accidents to occur. I began to appreciate this when going to life painting sessions in which I felt better painting fast and directly, making mistakes and just painting over them. One such painting was this :

You can see I ran out of room at the bottom, but It did not matter to me. "He could be standing in water" is what I thought. The point was that it was spontaneous and fresh. Zoe Frank posed a good question; Are you and architect or a gardener painter? The architect is structured and precise and the gardener reacts to what is in front of them. I feel like I have always been more of a Gardner.

 

 

This is very nice introduction to her work:

https://youtu.be/hgCpGu50Kj0