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Snowartist
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| 09/05/2007 8:34 PM |
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Thanks to everyone for all their critiques, I have a new one. If you have a minute, maybe you can help me with this one also. It is 11" x 14" canvas covered board. I started it at around 1 pm and finished at 6 pm. The sun was creating a glare, and couldn't see anymore. So I took it home and finished it up from a photo. Buck Lake is on an extreme 4x4 road, and hard to get to, so I decided to use the photo, which I don't like to do. You know, the colors on a photo are horrible.
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klippie
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| 09/18/2007 1:37 PM |
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snowartist
I like your painting, don't know why no one commented.....
It has a nice atmosphere to it.
Only thing that bothers me is the pole or tree right, maybe you could have left that out, and make a difference in the rocks by the tree and the back rocks on the waterfall,
keep the waterfall like it is, rather darken the rocks or something by the tree to show they are in front of the waterfall.
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Snowartist
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| 09/20/2007 3:35 AM |
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Hi Retha,
thank you for the help. It is always appreciated. Good or bad comments ,, I like them all! The tree on the right is a dead aspen ,, I never thought about leaving it out ... good idea. But my picture has no water fall.
The background is all rock. But you are right,, it looks like a waterfall. This is the shallow end of the lake , and it is full of lilipads. The bright yellow glow is what made me want to paint it. I think I will put this one away,, til I get to go back up there,, hopefully before it snows too much. |
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LMB
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| 09/20/2007 1:42 PM |
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Hi Snowartist,
I like plein-air painting too and try to get out and do it whenever possible, but if I wait to long between trips to work on the same painting I might as well start anew. I find that the sun moving just a few degrees north or south changes the way shadows are cast along with the way the light is reflected. Like you I’ll take photos of the subject in order to finish the painting back in my studio. I like this painting of ‘Buck Lake.’ I think that the way you have treated the yellow grass in the foreground is quite lovely. I understand why you found ‘Buck Lake’ a subject you wanted to paint. I would like the way the yellow light reflects off the water at the back of the pond. I do agree with Retha about the dead aspen. It acts as a vertical line dividing the painting. I’m not so sure that I would do away with that aspen, but might simply move it. When I hold a vertical block down the center of the aspen that blocks off everything to the right I like the picture even better and limbs off of it could be used to lead the eye into parts of the picture or act as a stop to keep the eye from roving to high in the picture. From a distance some rocks look like there is water flowing off of them because water has flowed down them at one time or another creating a pattern to the rock, but if you break up the pattern with some broken horizontal lines it might change some of that effect, then again it might not and you might want to keep the effect that you do have.
Leon
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Snowartist
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| 09/20/2007 2:49 PM |
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Thank you so much! I sure do like this site. Everyone is so wonderful to take the time to help someone else. I learn a lot also by watching other peoples work. I am putting up my photo, was taken just before I left. Earlier the rocks were lighter and the shadows different.
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scochran
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| 09/30/2007 4:48 PM |
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| Like the painting. Loose the space between the tree and the right side of the painting. The work is too good for that to be a distraction. That is your artistic licenses. scochran |
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J RAMESH
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| 09/30/2007 9:57 PM |
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| YOur work man ship is good. the drawing is good. I wished the rocks in the back ground could have been darkened more. Those rocks have their rim lit. This is an advantage to the art. So darken the rocks and give the brightest bright on the rim. The painting will be great. HOpe being honest in my comments helps. |
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sboyko
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| 10/02/2007 7:00 PM |
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I like this painting. If you must have the dead aspen trunk, and I think it does add something to bring the foreground in, I think your problem is one of edges. In your painting, the trunk is hard-edged and so sticks out more than one might want. You might darken the right edge of the trunk and bring it into closer value with the background on the right side. Just darken ever so slightly. And see, how in the photo, the colors in the grass in the foreground are ever so slightly more brilliant, brighter/darker than the weeds in the lake in the background? In the painting, you have the opposite effect, so the back part of the yellow lake isn't receding away from the viewer. i realize glare is going on in the background, so you might cool/lighten those back weeds. I think just a few adjustments, and it will work very well. The upright part of the rocks needs to be more defined as different from the flat planes catching the light. Anything upright like that will necessarily be darker than something lying flat to the sun. Not a lot, because they are rocks and therefore reflective, just enough to let the viewer know they are upright as opposed to flat-lying. A very nice treatment of the water and the sun bouncing off it - that is hard to capture, and you did a great job in the left side of the painting with that.
I just paint onscene as best as I can and let it go. If I want to say more, I do a separate piece. I don't worry too much about a finiished painting when working en plain air. The studio is more the place to be analytical, outside is just pure fun, ya know? |
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