Deidre Adams

Lyle. 32 x 38 inches, oil on board. ©2008 Deidre Adams.
After abstraction, we returned to representation — specifically, portraiture. We had a random drawing of names in which we each chose a fellow classmate for our portrait subjects. We were to take several photographs of our victim, using lighting that emphasized a contrast of light [...]

Channeling. 48 x 48 inches, acrylic on canvas. ©2008 Deidre Adams.
The second assignment was called “Abstracted Landscape.” The instructor also referred to this as a “subjective” landscape. We were to abstract a particular landscape of our choice, but also to explore a concept as it relates to abstractions of landscape. However, the water was muddied [...]

xxxxx, 48 x 48 inches, acrylic on canvas. ©2008 Deidre Adams.
Over the last several months, I had been busy making some new paintings at school, in my Painting III class. The first two were on display in the school library for a couple of months, so I didn’t have anything to post about. I got [...]

Self-portrait, 36 x 36, ©2007 Deidre Adams
As mentioned in an earlier post, the self-portrait is a very common assignment for art school studio classes. This is one that I did in Painting II last fall. The direction called for making a “psychological” self-portrait. Despite my tendency to agonize over these things and want to read [...]

It was just about this time two years ago that I decided I wanted to go back to school and get a BFA. I had been making art for some time, more or less self taught except for a couple of drawing and painting classes I had taken as electives while working on other degrees, [...]