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Here, wussy wussy wussy.........
I'm painting something now which will be a mixture of technical knowledge, and emotion - the current emotion being one of frustration, but then this is so often the way. And I procrastinate - all my life I have procrastinated - my mother will vouch for this, having waited in no small discomfort for my initial appearance.
So I wouldn't hold your breath in anticipation - it'll be a long haul.
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Eek - so long as you accept that it was started before your challenge; or, I could paint something especially .... hmm. Thing is, I usually have three or four ideas going on, my big problem is getting the damn' things down on paper/canvas/board. Breathe out, for the time being: now in ..... that's my good Marjorie.... now keep that going for a bit....
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Marjorie - I'm not entirely sure I ever did understand your challenge, to be brutally frank and manly (well, it's such an attractive look, I always think...) and what I did, to some extent, dash off is not something I'd want to put on the Gallery. But such as it is - this is a watercolour on an off-cut of paper, and in more than one way and another it's about distance - not only distance geographically but distance from human contact; which now and then I need.
That it's pretty poor stuff goes without saying: no preliminary drawing at all, the most time taken was waiting for the washes to dry; might try it again with a different blue and not bother about whether the washes dry or not; and in passing, I've never yet made Ultramarine work as a sky blue, and haven't this time either!
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by RobertJones
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Well, I think it's good to be self-critical; it's not good to be self-lacerating. But what I can achieve in acrylic I still struggle to achieve in oil, hard though I try even though that was my first serious medium; and watercolour......! I'm still 5 million miles from where I want to be. Perhaps when (if) I reach 90 I might just about get there - snag is, that's less than 30 years away .... so much to do; so little time!
PS - I've just realized that not only is it less than 30 years away, it's not much more than 20 years away ..... oh Lor'...
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by RobertJones
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This was my emotive piece which I put on the gallery on Friday. Obviously both Robert and myself were on a similar wavelength, similar coastal scene and format, just a different medium as mine was in oils. My intention was to use zero detail and without a hard edge in sight - that's a challenge in itself for me. Bembridge Point. 25 x 60cm. Oil on board.
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I wasn't going to do this challenge because I have been tight for time and was busy with my Bargue drawings, but since I have finished the first section and had half an hour spare today I did have a go.
I went to my local park and did a plain air with hardly any equipment... I used a Japanese calligraphy brush which has a reservoir of water in the handle so when you squeeze it the brush gets wet, these are very cheap, entirely synthetic but seem convenient. I also took my water colours, a pencil and rubber, and a watercolour block.
The result I feel was terrible, firstly because it took me all of about 15 minutes, secondly because my supreme inexperience in landscape, thirdly because my inexperience in watercolour...
My main bone of contention is the paynes grey in the tree in the centre just over powers everything. Also I really didn't understand the light, it was a bright day but the light seemed to have no particular direction, no strong shadows... anyway I guess the emotion is just discomfort (Possibly because I was sitting below a tree that was dropping some sort of spikey balls down on me)
The result I feel was terrible, firstly because it took me all of about 15 minutes, secondly because my supreme inexperience in landscape, thirdly because my inexperience in watercolour...
My main bone of contention is the paynes grey in the tree in the centre just over powers everything. Also I really didn't understand the light, it was a bright day but the light seemed to have no particular direction, no strong shadows... anyway I guess the emotion is just discomfort (Possibly because I was sitting below a tree that was dropping some sort of spikey balls down on me)
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For what it's worth Davy, squinting a look at any scene or subject through half closed eyes is a worthwhile tip and by far the fastest way of evaluating mass, light and dark. After that, it's (in my opinion) the old adage of "paint what you see" ( or what you think you see) . The best dancers don't always win dance contests or the best artists win art contests,and Marjorie is asking basically for the very essence of impressionism; see it, paint it. This isn't a contest and there are no rules, so don't be hard on yourself. Art is made totally stupid, almost entirely by people who never painted a garden fence and make it a commercial popularity contest. Let if flow man, as Joanne Boone Thomas said, "At the end of the day, it's your painting".....😆