Here's a tree that I updated. 9x12
Here's a couple of my long views. The second is more in the direction that I am thinking of going. 3x12.
And you know how at the end of the day you have wet paint still on your palette and you want to save it, so you kind of push it around so that it will dry quicker? At the end of my day I thought I would push the paint around to make a picture. It's a stormy sunset see, and those are some tree trunks on the left.
Where to begin? I like where you went with the first one. The airy edges of the tree top make it fit into the sky better. I like panoramas and I still think your second one would be interesting larger...like wrapped around a roundish room. My absolute favorite of the week, though, has to be the last one. I wish it were on paper (or Yupo) instead of your palette. I love the colors, the values, the brushstrokes and the composition. It's really good!
ReplyDeleteHere's something I put on my fb page when I displayed the horizon photos and I am going to share it with you.
ReplyDeleteBack when I was tending bar at the House of Chin in Champaign Illinois one of the regulars there was a guy who I thought taught photography. I didn't learn until I left Champaign that he was the head of the whole photography department and eventually had a show at the Art Institute.
Anyway when he came down to Champaign and looked around him at all the cornfields he was like what the hell am I going to take photos of here?
Then he came upon something called a banquet camera which was used to photograph people at a big banquet where they all lined up shoulder to shoulder and smiled and the photo that came out was very horizontal.
I guess the thought of those long photos has been kicking around in my head and now I am giving it a stab.
Oh, and to give the guy a little plug his name was Art Sinnsabaugh, look him up sometime.
Plastic paper or just plastic? Great (if fleeting) idea. Secondly, I like all of these. The tree looks like a tree but has the Yupo treatment complete with skyholes and scratched out branches. I’ve been waiting for you to start taking out paint after you’ve laid in color. Do that with the phone poles instead of painting them. You can always try some color on top of the scratch. After I’m done I always take out my “scratchin’ stick and look for places to use it. But my favorite is the sacrifice sheet. I have a Yupo sacrifice sheet that I’ve used for years. When it gets too crazy, I just wash it off in the sink. You can also mix colors on it too. I don’t know why I like this one but I do.
ReplyDeleteWhile I like the scratched in branches, the black and whiteness of that first tree annoys me, as does its fluffiness.. it just reminds me of a giant dandelion fluff. The sky in 2 is magnificent— like a stained glass window.i really like #3, however the color makes me think an apocalyptic fire is creeping up the hillside. The sacrifice sheet doesn’t move me but I love palette. You know why it works? Contrast — in brushstrokes, color, value and direction. So hard to achieve in watercolor, but that is what gives a painting energy imo….
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