Trouble in the background too. Don’t like that green blob.
I decided to go really dark under the pier….sepia and indigo. But before I did that I laid the yellow colors down for the grasses and then used mask to bring them up to the pier . So clever I knew that mask was sick. In fact, it did not work at all. I tried acrylic, markers, gouache, pastel pencils over that dark And that is why the grasses are green at the top.
My magic brush would not cut through for definition either. But for once, a Blick impulse buy came in handy A disposable fountain pen cut some dark back in….$3.
Greeta, I think you see trouble where no one else does! Or maybe you've just handled it all and we no longer see it. The grasses under the pier are wonderful, as is the pier itself. The green in the background is easy enough--just add some more green among the other background foliage.
ReplyDeleteI did add green to the right and in reflection. Good idea. Thx.
DeleteThere's so much movement and drama in this painting. With that solitary, stalwart bird holding his own. The green up top is not bothersome at all.
ReplyDeleteWhat you don’t see in the thumbnail, but appears in the larger photo is all the texture your brushstrokes add. It’s a wonderfully dramatic painting.
ReplyDeleteThe green never bothered me. The artist enjoys their own work because they are painting the things that they like, on the other hand they are tortured by the 'mistakes' that the viewer never even notices. The bird looks a little ghostly. I was thinking maybe you could crop it closer to the bird, but thinking about it I think you need all of that background. Maybe if you made the whole painting larger. You need room to navigate. Did you paint the bird or the background first?
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