Monday, July 29, 2024

seduced by indigo

 So I got to thinking that I love my new Q burnt colors, how could I better implement them?  Which led me to thinking about Vuillard and his dense coloration, and then I remembered I had painted from a photo a couple years ago.  

 


It hadn't turned out well, but now I thought with my new colors and new point of view I could improve on it.


Where to start?  The flowers of course, how could I render them in some unique way?


Well clearly this was not a way, but then Sara passed by and suggested that a better way was to paint the greenery that surrounded the flower first, and damn, that sounded like a good idea.


I fiddled with that and I think I was making progress but then I put down some indigo to the right and left of it.  Oh Indigo, the crackling granulation, the hard edges and the soft valleys, the blue of the dawn shading into the dark of night.  How could I ever not use you?


So this is what I ended up on small paper and I think I will do more on big paper.  What can I do when I am in love indigo?

5 comments:

  1. The Vuillard has a light and airy feel about it. I like the upper left portion of your version. I would re-examine the perspective of the table. It’s like a triangle not a rectangle. Why did you give up trying negative painting for the flowers? You had an interesting start.

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    1. It was going well, but then I was seduced by indigo and had to go in that direction.

      The perspective on that table is definitely off. For some reason I didn't notice it until it was too late to do anything about it, so I tried the strategy of many old masters, let's just hope that nobody notices, but I did not get away with it.

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  2. I'm getting excited about this. I love the Vuillard reference and I like the depth of the dark green foliage you're getting with the Indigo. I also like the shapes you're getting when you paint the foliage first and then drop in the flowers. I like the softness of the flowers against the foliage (I know you're not finished, but don't go too crazy filling in every bit of white space!). Oh, and it seems as if you like Indigo, do you?

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