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I won’t get much done today if anything at all, Tuesday are the best day of my week I collect my granddaughters from school and they come for dinner. It usually full on entertainment, me providing most of it , lucky both like to draw and paint the eldest has her nose in a book most of the time.
I’m taking time with this painting which is quite unusual for me , I want to get it right and not accept that will do , I have a second painting on the go so thst I can swop over when I want to do something different, all those green dabs can get tedious.
This is both in working on .
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You have your busy (happily busy 😊) Tuesdays, and I have my job that putting me off painting for couple days Paul 🙈
First time in my life I ended up having 3 paintings on the wall at same time, lol 🙉
While one of them is drying - I'm continuing to the other, and so on, lol 😅
So three paintings on the go, and I've heard sort of complaint already, lol , it went .. - "when can you show a finished one?, any soon?!" - 🙉🙈🙊
I do like your rain forest story, and I'm patiently waiting until you can share the finished artwork Paul.
Enjoy your day today!
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by PogArt MasSter
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Art , Sylvia, Fiona and Tessa thank you , your comments are encouraging. I’ve reached a point where I feel that I’m loosing the painting somehow , but I do know most paintings go through this stage ,I have just done a little bit more. What I need to do is a a few more darks to define some of the shapes that are predominately green rocks but look like sponges blending in together.
A few photos in different light .
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You have chosen a difficult subject of course - I know it's watercolour, but I might be inclined to go for rather thicker paint in places: not quite gouache, but not so far off. I have visited one of our rain forest areas - it was in Wales, but I forget where - and remember being struck (on the head: frequently, by those low-lying bows....) no, ignore that slip, I remember being struck by the richness of the greens - a very characteristic richness, and varying between strong yellow greens and those with more blue or even red - trying to think what colours might best reflect them, but that wouldn't be a useful intervention at this point, you've already chosen your greens/green mixes, throwing more in would likely give you mud.
I know the damn'-I've-lost-the-painting feeling - don't we all? In fact, I got up at 3am today to have another attack on an oil painting which I'd left in a state of considerable yeuch! Couldn't sleep without putting right what I could was wrong, and all the time the real problem was that I'd chosen a square board when I should have selected a rectangular one. I say this as no help to you at all, but just to let you know you're not suffering alone.
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Thank you Tessa and Robert for your feedback it really appreciated. It the first time I tackled something with so many different greens and as spa study and work in progress I’m really pleased with it. I looked at it this morning and the instant thought was bolder darks needed I haven’t had time today to tackle it but I will certainly think of your comments Robert . I ok with the light green which is the thing that I usually avoid as then can look real having said that theses forests look unreal I will add some darker more towards blue greens in the shady areas and darken some of the browns. There are a couple of areas where I haven’t built up the with the sponge as yet and this should give a thicker green in those areas . Please to chip in as and when, and your correct Robert we all go through the go sh- - I’m loosing this I think I do it with nearly all my paintings. A very elderly artist I met years ago ( well he was about the age I am now but at the time he was old to me ) said a painting goes through a ugly stage and you need to bring its beauty back I think he refers to this stage .
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Your elderly painter was right: there comes a point at which most if not all of us think 'this is never going to come right': and that's when too many of us, at least those without experience, give up. And sometimes, that's the best thing you CAN do! There are no hard and fast rules. But it is helpful to know that paintings do tend to go through this stage where it looks as if a 5 year old chimp has got hold of your paints: if you're prepared for that stage, it's much easier to accept it and keep building up the layers (even in watercolour) - normally, I give it a day or two when it reaches that point, but in the early hours the other day, and as I couldn't sleep anyway, I did get up and attack it again. Couldn't correct the fact that I'd chosen the wrong dimension of board for the subject, but did at least rescue it from the reject pile. I'll show it, when the oil glare dies down a bit.
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I haven’t much over the last two day due to life getting in the way . Yesterday I was due to see the consultant regarding problem so didn’t do any painting until I went up to get ready to go out , well I did just what I would tell people not to do I picked up the brush mixed a green and put it where I thought it should go. Wasn’t totally impressed so went of for my appointment three hours later came home very fed up as I need surgery on my left hand , unfortunately the cortisone injection hasn’t worked. I thought I will do some painting to cheer up nit a chance the green had dried a bloody awful looking blue .
It was also so thick it looked like dark lines , so I dampened a small area and removed it later today it a recovery job . I will get some photos of what I’m doing to it as I go along . Don’t paint when you not in the mood or don’t have the time to do it properly you silly fool.
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Spent some time fiddling with this and decided that it’s time to stop . Am I pleased with it , are we ever pleased with our own work, I happy with it as it’s achieved what I wanted and that was to boost my confidence when using greens . As a painting in a bit disappointed as there are bit that good be better but to change then would mean fiddling around more and ending up less content . So here it is worts and all , I won’t post it on the gallery just yet , I will ad thst I feel less fearful of the green and think it’s help in this painting I’m working on along side the one I’ve just done.
