Emulating a Kandinsky ! Who woulda thunk?

Working with primary colors is the emphasis for the workshop coming up.  To prepare, I am working with...you guessed it... red, yellow and blue. 

I ran across a Kandinsky painting and realized that he had worked this painting in red, yellow and blue!  What serendipity!
The banner concept I started with has now turned around into another form of the squares and circles I was working on earlier this year.  But now it is two-d versus three-d, and in color rather than wood solids.  KANDINSKY WILL TEACH US!  We will not be forging, but copying loosely what he did (see below.)

Pushing the color-- from the vividness Kandinsky enjoyed in his painting of squares, to a more nuanced and delicate collection of transparent squares, using the sensitivity of watercolors to good avail.  I love this sort of thing, and have reached a spot where I know my enjoyment of it will be contagious:  this is the "sweet spot" for a teacher, I know. 

Below:  top, three wood blocks with holes, photo from studio;
bottom, reproduction of a painting by Kandinsky.

Coming: variations on these themes by people in hollandART Studio