I took suggestions and made changes to my yellow maple painting. I do like it better.
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I have a friend who’s visiting Japan and sent me a picture of a tea house. I cropped out the middle and painted the image on Yupo. The brown background should be much darker but you can’t go back and redo a wash on Yupo without messing everything up-at least I’ve never been able to do it. Besides that , I like it except for those wispy grasses which actually tore the Yupo.
Okay, it's a table against the wall in the back of the tea room where the zen denizens hang out and swap koans until they have had too many cups of sake and realize they are talking gibberish and thus they have reached Satori, and get up from the table and pay their bill leaving a generous tip, or maybe no tip at all. It all depends.
ReplyDeleteI love the brown wall it looks like a kind of rough plaster. I love the bottle, it's solid realness, and the shadow behind it and the spindly plant with the bright red flowers. That circular thing is either painted on the wall or is a serving tray standing on its end. It represents the Earth, but instead of those tiresome continents it shows a deeper reality.
Those yellow wisps are clearly some graffitti from that punk group of teenage bodhisattvas who clearly have too much time on their hands.
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ReplyDeleteThat yellow foliage just glows! Yes, darkening around it was a good idea. I really like that tea house. The brown is fine. It has a soft moody feeling and the feel of a well-worn homey place. Love the vase and flowers in that corner and the way the shadows frame it. I'm not sure if the circle is a window or something mounted on the wall, but it doesn't matter to me. I'm feeling window and it just adds to the cozy hobbity vibe of the place. Kudos!
ReplyDeleteAlso, you managed to tear Yupo?!
DeleteI pressed too hard with my “sctatchin’” stick.
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DeleteYes increasing the dark-light contrast really helped the yellow tree to stand out. Love the tea room, the contrast between the brown wall and the greenish orb, both in color and shape. And the delicacy of the branch with those bright red berries. Wonderfully painted!
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