I've been battling a cold for the past few days, but I worked for a couple hours on this today. I have to remember not to get caught up in details and to focus on larger masses. Good paintings aren't filled with details, but rather capture the larger picture.
0 Comments
I'm working through some ideas about paint application now so I figured I'd start a head study of myself. This is a dryly handled ebauche, which means that I'm only using a small amount of medium for this stage.
I'm using portrait colors, which are as follows: Silver White Flake White Naples Yellow Yellow Ochre Cadmium Red Light French Vermillion Alizarin Crimson Brun Rouge Burnt Sienna Burnt Umber Ivory Black (very small amount) I don't have the best luck with finishing self portraits, but I'll finish this one, I promise. "The ones that make it complicated, Never get congratulated" I've been thinking a lot about overarching ideals in painting and this lyric from Kid Cudi really spoke to me. For painting, there's plenty of rabbit holes to go down in terms of technique, but I've only found them all to be detrimental. The best technique is the simplest.
Personally, I use a full palette ebauche applied in a frottis (rubbing) manner. This is something I've applied from Bouguereau. There's a lot more to painting, obviously, in terms of colors, brushes and mediums, but what I'm saying is that the physical application of paint is all that matters and must be direct as possible. There's no fancy technique that you can hide behind. Go out there and apply paint directly and don't make it complicated. About a month ago, I was trying to draw an angel sculpture that we have in the yard. The drawing went south really quick and I gave up on it. I tried again to draw the angel today and found that my skill levels increased over the past month. Progress isn't a straight line, but you can often find spurts where you progress fast.
As embarrassed as I am with my first attempt at drawing, I'll show the picture so you can see what I mean. |
Archives
April 2024
Categories
All
|