by CarlOwen » Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:56 am
Good morning. Here are three progress posts. I won't be working today and maybe for the next day or two as I let the paint dry before I resume. I have to the fix the ram horns, decide how I am going to enhance the grass with lines and forms, clean up the two rocks and what colors to choose for the limb on the ground. If I paint it grey it is possible that the viewing impact of the animals will be lessened. Do I want that? If I paint it the same colors in the tree, how will it direct the viewer's vision pattern. Does that matter? The grass has five basic shades of green moving from dark on the left to light on the right. Do I want to do lighter highlights on the left moving to dark highlights on the right? Should the fallen limb start dark on the right moving to light on the left, or the other way? This is what I call having a conversation with the painting. I never start a work, drawing or painting knowing what it will end up looking like. It is to interesting and involving to develop the work, to turn mistakes and happenstances into interesting and beautiful elements within the context of the overall composition. Enough. Here are the progress posts.
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