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Lovely sketching everyone. I got back on Friday from having a few days away. I did get some outdoor sketching done. The weather was freezing though and I did find it quite difficult, having severe Raynauds disease. Here are a couple. I have more that I'm going to work on now I'm home. I was resting yesterday as a 3 hour journey home on Friday turned into a 6 hour drive, due to the dangerous driving conditions. Am absolute nightmare. There was some great scenery though, snow covered cliffs and so on. This is the lodge I stayed in.
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Rickardo I do like the way you simplify your shapes it works really well. And lovely colours. Nearly as good as my beautiful N Wales.
Denise the roads are still a tad slippery today Sam has just been reprimanded for tugging...he's got four legs I've only got two.
Brave you sketching out doors and they have worked well. Where were you the building looks eclesiacal
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by Sylvia Evans
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I had a discussion with a friend the other day. We talked about art and our favourite paintings, and the "what if you could chose one famous painting" - question arouse. I thought long and ended up surprising myself. I typically enjoy modernist, some impressionist and expressionist art the most, not renaissance stuff. But I ended up picking Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus". Not sure why but my decision stands.
Here's a quick watercolour sketch based on this masterpiece.
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Interesting choice, and we'll all have different ones. I'd be pushed to identify my all-time favourite painting (and I certainly wouldn't be brave enough to try reproducing it, even in homage!).
I'd need to think about this - certainly one of my favourite paintings is Souvenir d'Italie, by Corot, which exists in several different versions; someone said to me "but it's so dark!": and they weren't wrong; it is, but luminously so, in my opinion. So much depends on what one's looking for in a picture - some of us like bright, sunny, uplifting landscapes, portraits, or figures; others like brooding, dark, impressions. Some are just taken by the brushwork; some like paintings in which the brushwork is hardly visible, smoothed out ...
We've got far too much choice, that's the trouble. I knew someone who thought Van Gogh crude. clumsy, "couldn't draw" - which is plainly completely absurd; and suggests that finding a consensus is a fool's errand. We all ought to be able to agree on Botticelli - but I bet some won't. I know a painter who seriously asserts that Constable couldn't paint trees - leaving me bereft of speech.
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Rikard, chiaroscuro is my favourite type of art. I'm just half way through a 3rd sketch, A2 size of Matthew and the Angel. I've already prepared a canvas. I plan to tape the sketch to the wall and do a freehand sketch of it, onto the canvas. I've done a tonal sketch so I will know where to paint my white and darks.as a guide. I'll then put the paint layer on and finish off with some glaze. I hope to finish the sketch tomorrow and start the painting in the next few days. Of course I like many others but this style of painting is my favourite. This was my second sketch.
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Robert, I think I can see why you like the Souvenir d'Italie. I especially like the movement of the foliage. Wonderful moody atmosphere. Mysterious but not overly dark.
Wow Denise, what a drawing! The finished painting will be something extra for sure. I look forward to see it in the gallery :)
