Friday, March 05, 2010
More development work...
There is no class with Osborne next week (spring break - already!) so I've brought my paintings home to continue working on them.
I'm wondering whether it is useful to continue posting on how these paintings develop - maybe this is becoming too repetitious? I am also thinking of the dictum "Don't let them see you sweat." Well, in posting all these twists and turns as my paintings develop, all the sweat is right here, on display. On the other hand, I did intent this to be a diary of this specific course, and so it is.
The Landscape Nude: I've recovered from the horrid Blue Layer that I had applied, but now the blue is too light and I'll have to repaint that yet again. Also need to add some definition in the bottom left quadrant. At least, I did a slight glaze on the lady's thigh and so managed to cool it down a bit. But meanwhile it is hanging on my wall now, and I do like it!
Painter: I've changed to color of her sweater to a very intense red - Osborne's suggestion - got rid of the blue on the back of the easel stand, and added some contrast behind her head. All good changes. Now I need to work on the gray - maybe darker and more into a lavender hue to set off those other colors. And of course, add a bit more definition to her features. This painting has been really fun to work on.
Flowers: I'd submitted two pictures to the Art of the Flower exhibition at the Sketch Club. One, Pitcher Posies was painted in Vieques while I watched how Doris Peltzman creates her fabulous flower paintings. I don't really like the painting much, it is just one more of a million flower paintings - ho hum. The other, Consuela, I thought was more interesting, sticking the flower in the ear of a rather distainful woman. Kind of tongue-in-cheek. But it was rejected. At first I thought the jurors simply had no sense of humor, but have since heard that the first thing the jurors did was to discard every painting that had a human being in it (one with squirrels was accepted though). I still think they lack a sense of humor, although the squirrels may disagree.
Today's Excitement: Electrical parts are being delivered this morning, and this afternoon a contractor will be here to install track lighting in my apartment/studio/gallery. This is the last really major thing that I needed to do after I moved in here last November. The living room has been 'way too dark, and the displays on the walls have been lost in dingy murk. All that should now change - hooray!
I'm wondering whether it is useful to continue posting on how these paintings develop - maybe this is becoming too repetitious? I am also thinking of the dictum "Don't let them see you sweat." Well, in posting all these twists and turns as my paintings develop, all the sweat is right here, on display. On the other hand, I did intent this to be a diary of this specific course, and so it is.
The Landscape Nude: I've recovered from the horrid Blue Layer that I had applied, but now the blue is too light and I'll have to repaint that yet again. Also need to add some definition in the bottom left quadrant. At least, I did a slight glaze on the lady's thigh and so managed to cool it down a bit. But meanwhile it is hanging on my wall now, and I do like it!
Painter: I've changed to color of her sweater to a very intense red - Osborne's suggestion - got rid of the blue on the back of the easel stand, and added some contrast behind her head. All good changes. Now I need to work on the gray - maybe darker and more into a lavender hue to set off those other colors. And of course, add a bit more definition to her features. This painting has been really fun to work on.
Flowers: I'd submitted two pictures to the Art of the Flower exhibition at the Sketch Club. One, Pitcher Posies was painted in Vieques while I watched how Doris Peltzman creates her fabulous flower paintings. I don't really like the painting much, it is just one more of a million flower paintings - ho hum. The other, Consuela, I thought was more interesting, sticking the flower in the ear of a rather distainful woman. Kind of tongue-in-cheek. But it was rejected. At first I thought the jurors simply had no sense of humor, but have since heard that the first thing the jurors did was to discard every painting that had a human being in it (one with squirrels was accepted though). I still think they lack a sense of humor, although the squirrels may disagree.
Today's Excitement: Electrical parts are being delivered this morning, and this afternoon a contractor will be here to install track lighting in my apartment/studio/gallery. This is the last really major thing that I needed to do after I moved in here last November. The living room has been 'way too dark, and the displays on the walls have been lost in dingy murk. All that should now change - hooray!
