jere
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| 04/11/2007 1:27 AM |
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/jere/100_1777.jpg
please copy and past to your browser to see. i am experiencing tech
problems with the computer i am on [beats skull against montitor in
futility, defeat and dispare. the computer won this round]
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jere
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| 04/11/2007 1:37 AM |
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okay so the above is a barn in norton, that i have been painting from my monitor. i would like to be able to "show" in contests and what not. the problem is i have no idea what i am being judged on what is "mainstream" things that i should and shouldn't be doing. in short i have done what comes naturally without influence.
i have a dendency to take watercolors to the saturation point, very thick not "transperent" to better reproduce colors contrast. i don't know if i have gone too far in the above painting, with details and density/layers of colors. i would like to know if anyone thinks something can come out of this painting or if it is time to give up on it and start something new
thanks again
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bluiiz
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| 04/11/2007 7:06 AM |
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 hope this works |
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bluiiz
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| 04/11/2007 7:14 AM |
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| This is also very nice, you clearly have wonderful talent. With this one, I think, you need to work a little on differences in the "spatial" differences, a little darker color on the left behind the building as on the right, maybe a stronger shadow or color in the forground. But this is really very nice! Do give up on it! |
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vikingwife
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| 04/11/2007 7:26 AM |
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I agree....you have a nice painting style. For future paintings, I might suggest changing the composition a bit. Having the focal point right in the center (for me anyway) distracts from the nice areas you have going on around it. It doesn't encouage the eye to want to move around and explore the page. Good work! Glad you were able to have it posted. Don't give up!
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gene
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| 04/11/2007 9:10 AM |
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| Check your perspective on the left side of the barn. Were you working plein aire or from a photo? If from a photo, why not use a grid in order to get the drawing correct? If you take a piece of clear acetate and with a permanent marker draw one half inch squares to make a grid.Place it over your photo. Then make the same kind of grid on your paper, in the proper proportion, and then figure out your drawing that way. I think you will be happier with your final result. I like the colors you used in the foreground and I like the way you have the tree on the left side coming into the picture. I think I would eliminate the tree on the left, however. Are we seeing the entire top of the painting or was some part of it cut off when photographing it? Any, I agree with Jess........don't give up............Gene |
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gene
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| 04/11/2007 9:12 AM |
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| I'm sorry. I typed that wrong. I meant to say I like the tree on the right side coming into the picture, but I would eliminate the diagonal tree on the left. Gene |
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jere
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| 04/11/2007 1:50 PM |
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thanks anna very much for the help posting the image!!
i will keep going on this then thanks everyone for the advice it helps very much.
in the future i will try not to center the barn, i have some more photos straight from the digital camera, i really hope to get yalls ideas on which digital photos to paint from how to crop better and what to leave out.( i think i will have the resizing issues worked out by then)
i definatly see the distortion, i think that is the angle i took the photo of the painting from. or maybe it is just hard for me to see because i have looked at it for so long 
gene it is the top of the painting, i guess those trees arent helping asthetics much. if i make a frame for the painting out of tree branches do you think that would help? |
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rpartin
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| 04/11/2007 7:32 PM |
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jere,
First of all, I don't think your photo is doing your painting justice.
I think you have done a good job and I agree with the comments of the others.
I believe the sky is done much better than the photo indicates. The trees are very good.
Keep up the good work. |
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scochran
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| 04/11/2007 9:55 PM |
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Just the few things that have already been mention, but you have a nice touch with the watercolors.
Don't give up. You are going to learn a lot just thru this group. I see some very nice transparents colors coming through. scochran |
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