When producing work… Artistic rendering or draftmanship… Use distinct lines to create a composition straight away. Once the compositional direction is chosen, then bring forth the image. Next choose color harmony to complete the dynamics. Remember and never forget the image lives independently of the source. Once removed it is an independent spirit.
For color harmony take a small section of image making in your head. Use your intuition and move forward. Let the color imagery sink in. Trust your gut, because that is you as an artist. In that way all the colors stay harmonized. As support use any handmade color charts you’ve made from the colors in your palette.
If I am to quickly render the composition with a few precise lines, as if I am drawing and not painting, then a round bristle brush would be used, preferably one size larger than you think.
In all my painting I should be tackling the visual question, “I want something”. This is as much of a question as it is a statement with an action attached to it.
I’ve got to make those faces emotionally darker and melancholy … More broken… More broken.
Tag: Melancholy
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Composition
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Melancholy Gold
Melancholy Gold 12″X16″ on Arches Huile oil paper using Winsor & Newton Artist oil This image is originally from a life study worked on at the BCAC, Broome County Arts Council, in Binghamton, NY. The original drawing was completed on 12″X16″ Arches Huile 140 lb. oil paper, which was toned using Winsor & Newton Artist Oil Raw Umber. The medium for the drawing was Coates vine charcoal. Once the drawing was prepared during the life study on site, the piece was completed in oil paints in the studio. Winsor & Newton Artist grade oil paints were used to create the above image. The colors I used were Permanent Rose, Cadmium Scarlet, Indian Red, Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Viridian, Winsor Blue (Red Spectrum), Prussian Blue, Ivory Black and Titanium White.
