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Showing posts with label painterly style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painterly style. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Still Life #6

A Most Challenging Still Life Assignment

This homework assignment was very challenging for me.  

When I first started doing art in 2010 I started with graphite pencil and would work in a realistic style with details and blending pencil (color pencil as well).  In 2014 I started playing with watercolors.  In 2017 or so I started with acrylics.  Continuing to try to get everything as realistic as I could with as many details as possible, as most beginner painters do.  I have read and heard that detail painting and over blending is one of the most common issues in beginner paintings.   

As I continued to paint (since 2010 I have almost 1,000 drawings, sketches, and paintings to date).  With my painting,  I have learned from many well known Houston artists, to paint with a fully loaded brush and with a more painterly style.  I also learned that our followers; our viewers, do not initially look at our paintings up close but rather from 12 - 18 feet away - so it begs the question:  why would you paint as if your viewers only see your paintings up close?  

When you step back away from your painting, all your lovely brushwork will optically blend together dispite your painting looking like a beautiful mess of color up close.  

This also explains one reason why so many painters choose to use long handled brushes.  When the brush is held correctly (close to the end), the long handle provides the artist with some distance from their canvas.  We must also remember to continually step back from our painting to view it and determine where and how to place their next fully loaded paint brush stroke! 

This was my most challenging assignment to date.  Critique will be tomorrow . . . .  just waiting to hear my professors comments!  Critiques from professionals are a wonderful tool to help us all become better painters.  We should try to look at our own work with a more critical eye.  

With that said . . . . .

Still Life #6

16 x 20
For Sale:  $110.00








Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Pastel Painting - Beautiful Ladies

Beautiful Ladies 

So instructor first wanted us to do our painting in soft pastels.  Below is the results.  I really like this lady.  She is very beautiful!


Once the soft pastel drawing was COMPLETELY FINISHED, the instructor told us to get water, a couple of paint brushes and to open our GESSO!!!  What??? Are you serious?  What does Gesso have to do with soft pastel paintings? 

Below is the completed results of using watered down Gesso.  I was nervous about using the Gesso full strength.  In this process, you dramatically overdo the intital lay down of colors, as the second stage will bring them back to a softer look.  The instructor was hoping that we would use a "painterly style" to build volume and leave visible brushstrokes.  I do have some visible brushstrokes although they may be hard to see in this photo.  

The painterly brushstrokes are pleasing because it leaves something to the viewer's imagination and we can see the hand of the artist more plainly.  Painting in this style is fun beause it allows for the implusive use of color and an unrestrained painting manner!

Too. Much. Fun.!