lynn connell and the creativity art retreat in Dunedin

November 2005:

"I have just come back from a 9 day painting session in Brooklyn with one of my favourite painters CASEY MCGLYNN. We worked on canvas and paper and board. We drew, and drew and drew, discovering our own symbols, working with layers and layers of every kind of paint, ink, pastel, oil, coffee, dirt, cutting, collaging, tearing, ripping, pasting, copying...5-10 pieces at a time...on the floor, table, walls....everything and anything goes in a Casey McGlynn workshop....his enthusiasm and creative imagination leaps and frolics spontaneously on 24 hour basis...it was an awesome experience." Lynn Connell, artist, art retreat owner.

CASEY MCGLYNN As a child, Casey worked tirelessly on old grocery bags, and scrap paper; his first paintings reflected the self-taught spontaneity, orginality and raw energy found more often in Outsider Art, and still do, wonderfully.

Known initially for his primitive cave-like drawings and paintings of animals, his images, themes and materials shift constantly and continuously – from personal experience, emotional reflection to people, animals, ideas, concepts, whims, great historical thoughts. Since 1995, he has exhibited in Canada with the Bau-Xi gallery, and extensively across the United States and Europe.

MATERIAL LISTcall me if you need clarification...updated '09

Ground: basically you can use any size or kind of canvas, wood, paper, whatever you wish to bring: small, medium, large sizes -

Wood..by this i think he means, a small sheet of ply, not too thick, for cutting things with a skill saw...bring a saw if you have one, otherwise we will use Caseys.

Black india ink
A selection of coloured inks in small or large bottles. Curry’s have Ocaldo drawing ink in lots of colours. He uses a lot of ink
4 spray bottles
Pastel oil sticks, your favourite colours, with black and white for sure.
Acrylic paint in jars, your favourite colours.
Brushes: cheap: 1-2-3” plus a selection of small, inexpensive, fine brushes. Sponge brushes.
Pen: quill pen for india ink
Fluid acrylics: your favourite colours
White glue
A selection of decorative papers, photographs, etc. for collaging
Sizzors
Varnish, clear, glossy, spray can
Felt markers, your favourite colours, and black. Crayons.
Pad of smooth shiny paper, 9 x 12” or bigger
Paper plates as palates.
Canvas paper, printing paper
Modeling paste
Trowel to spread it.
Notebook and pen

Misc: water bucket. Paper towelling, smock or apron, bulldog clips, styrofoam plates......

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