Greetings Studio Journal readers!
I've been painting several still life flower paintings recently. Flowers
are available (specially in the summer) and colorful and readymade for a painting.
The following pictures will show some of my work
painting a little petunia bouquet.
I snipped them from my hanging basket, bought
early in the summer.
This sketch is to set my composition and try
a few color choices, with Blick Studio felt pens.
I really liked how the shadow turned out!
Hope it will be as nice with paint. 🤞
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| Such pretty colors! |
I found a panel I had made with two sheets of Arches oil paper, side-by-side, like a diptych,
underpainted with orange, each about 8 x 5 inches.
I had no notion of making two paintings, but while working
on the first one, on the left, I thought - why not try to do the same
painting with the paper on the right without wearing my glasses?
My challenge is to first mix up the paint i need,
then take off my glasses and paint.
Whoa! It is very difficult.
The following are the left-side painting photos in-progress
(with glasses, before I thought of the no-glasses thing):
And these 👇 are when I began painting the right side, without glasses.
I didn't take any progress pics.
Who can operate a camera phone without glasses? 😳
(mostly i just forgot)
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| I had painted a leaf laying on the table, but wiped it (yes, i remembered to take off my glasses). |
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| Here are the two in-progress paintings, L with glasses and R without. |
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| "Final" paintings (not a lot different, but a little) |
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| Petunia Bouquet oil on paper 8 x 5.5 inches (glasses on) |
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| Petunia Bouquet II oil on paper 8 x 5.5 inches (glasses off) |
I know which one I like the best, but actually only by a little. I think it is because I am learning to be more careful with my edges, making them not so crisp and
on the whole, using more sgraffito & scumbling technniques
at times for a more painterly i.e. interesting, effect.
This method is very hard for me to do. I think it would take lots of planning
and patience! to do it all the time.
But - I think it is a valuable thing to try because it
definitely removes ANY nitpicking tendencies you i may have developed.
So I may do it as an exercise now and then.
Thanks so much for reading and for your support!
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3 comments:
So, my artist mentors pretty much universally say “we are not painting objects, we are painting atmosphere.” In order to do that, we need to NOT shift our focus so that when we paint the object, it is in focus, and when we paint the surroundings, they are in focus.
Squint, always squint.
Check out Aaron Coberley’s work on FB.
Lue
Hi Lue! Thanks so much - yes! Taking off my glasses is almost as good as squinting … because it is so easy to forget to squint. I will look Aaron up.
Gotta love the benefits of poor vision!! 🤣. Me too!!!!
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