Posts tagged art
Vintage Woman
Because being older does not mean having no value
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Why does a museum show a cluster of four aluminum boxes as art? What gives value of any kind to a painting which is nothing more than a white or black surface? Léger’s people look like boilers; where has he seen such people? Why do the Cubists chop up guitars, tables, newspapers and bottles and put them back together all wrong? The usual responses, going back at least sixty years to the New York Armory Show, are that the artists are crazy. It is fairly standard for people to react to newness with nervous hostility. It is also possible, however, that the artists are sane and that the world they are painting is crazy.
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Because of the work I put in yesterday, I can afford a day off today. It’s not done but the values have been established per the value study. Just need the details. I got an idea for a unifier while in bed last night.
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…by layer
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Today’s sketching and thumbnails and compositions and ideas.
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I like this now. It’s a roadmap to where I want to go. Now to work on the color. I hate color.. It’s my Achilles heel
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Watercolor artist David Rankin’s book on sketching is proving very useful to me now, even though he’s a painter not a renderer.
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Proud of myself! Got my value study started as per my production schedule. I have to figure out where does the eye naturally go. Where do I want it to go, and how do I lead it there. There’s nothing worse than not knowing what to look at.
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When evaluating any image, especially in the sketching stage in which you are only working with three or four values, it’s good practice to look for and design the whites because it’s the whites that direct the eye.
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My next project mapped out. Tomorrow will work on the value study and hopefully transfer and lay down the first colors. Ambitious, I know. Hopefully my new production schedule will help.
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Nice neighborhood moment: Tuesday, 6pm, slowly sinking sun, warm weather. Two artists who seem to be collaborating on a giant mural in an alley up the street from us in Little Saigon / The Tenderloin. Lots of spectators enjoying the process. Notice how the two distinctly different styles interact on the “canvas”?
Awesome!
