Monday, April 7, 2025

trees and a prairie.



The bottom one is what it looked like when I showed it in class. I liked what I had before, above, better.  It was kind of plain and raw and who doesn't like plain and raw?




I put the tree shape in roughly with indigo and meant to blot it in an hour to see what paint would come up and what would be left, but then it wasn't till twelve hours till I got back to it and almost no paint come up so I put burnt sienna on top of it and I guess it's ok, kind of a frilly spring tree which is fine, but it's not plain and raw.


This is um, a prairie, maybe I'll put some suggestion of some trees on the horizon.  We'll see.

 

4 comments:

  1. ekoApril 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM

    I'm starting at the bottom. Love the sky and the composition. I'm not sure if you need horizon trees, but, if you do add them, I'd go gently. That is one lacy tree! It has a certain exuberance but it seems too "overall" of a pattern. As for the top two--there's something to be said for each of them--they have different moods and comparing for better/worse doesn't seem fair somehow.

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  2. AlanApril 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM

    Starting at the bottom. I think that the grasses at the bottom are unnecessary and cover up some good work. If you want to put some trees on the horizon, I wouldn’t go any higher into the sky than the line you have now. It looks like a tree line already.

    The third tree looks top heavy to me. You could easily fix that on Yupo.

    I liked it plain and raw better but it lacks definition imo. Be a good background for some other painting.

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  3. sjdApril 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM

    I’ll start at the bottom too. I like everything about that painting except the mass of dark grasses. They’re too dark and too uniform in color. The yellow grasses and sky are beautifully painted. I like the third tree, the way the background and tree are defined by the brushstrokes.

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  4. paoApril 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM

    Okay, bottom first. The sky is practically beautiful, the yellow middle is alright, but the big mass of darkness at the bottom throws it all away. Next up, you gotta say it has movement. It's jumpy, flitting around like crazy. I don't think it works for that reason. The top ones: the second of the 2 has some of the same issues as the next one down - flitting around. But it is contained more by the tree branches, so that's good. I don't think the aqua daubs add anything. The top painting is too faded away to say much of anything. Perhaps with more light and dark values it could come to life.

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