Once again I tried to make a painting out of one of my sketches and once again I liked the sketch better. I spent about an hour on the sketch and all day on the painting. This is the sketch.
This is the painting. Really went wet into wet and tried to simplify.
I think that maybe the car could be better and that would help but I do like certain aspects of it.
Back to my little exercises.
Lamp shining light into a dark corner. Done with graphite with a watercolor wash.
Ham and cheese croissant. Tried a contour drawing with black ink and then painted it with watercolor. Exercise was for melted cheese and another one was for bread so I combined them.
I love that croissant! As for the painting/sketch—they have very different feels, don't they? There's more energy and sparkle and texture in the sketch but the painting feels like something Hopper might do. It has that existential emptiness. I like the simplification of forms, but the dumpster may need more detail. I wasn't sure that it was until I looked at the sketch. Both good, but in different ways.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you got rid of some of the stuff in the painting. Maybe you could have left out the car. Cars break the atmosphere. Also since they are no longer the beautiful beasts they were from the 60s until the 80s I think, they are just plain ugly and nothing to be done about that. Love the croissant. Works as a croissant and also as an abstract, and just maybe as a rocky beach with a plump shark trolling for those tasty human bathers.
ReplyDeleteAre you sparking up before you look at the blog? If so……good idea.
DeleteThe sketch is all about the lines and the watercolor is all about the masses of color. Both great but each a different feeling. Sketches appeal more b/c they’re livelier— your brain doesn’t have to do as much work, imo. The crossiant is yum. And a good combo of drawing and watercolor.
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