Milwaukee Sketch Club - Critique by Roger Gifford

Roger Gifford was a teacher for 39 years at MPS. As a teacher he also taught at MATC, Bayview's Milwaukee High School of the Arts and Milwaukee Art Museum's Art Satellite program which drew students who wanted to learn Art from the entire Milwaukee Area. While teaching he painted and took classes in the summers. He has taken classes at Mount Mary, UWM and ? He worked with all the media but mainly works in watercolor now.

He started out as a very tough critique but then moderated his tone as he progressed. He says the quality of the work that our group produces is much better than the last time he critiqued us and that it compares favorably to other groups he has critiqued.

To show depth in a painting you need to have bands diminishing in width as you progress away. You can differentiate these bands by changing the value (light/dark), the saturation (brightness) or color. He also talked about making edges with shapes versus outlining. Told some people to push the color. Need to model forms in the face by changing either value or texture.