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JoyK

Posts:195

08/23/2007 3:34 PM	Alert
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to create my own style. Overworking is a big problem of mine. A lot of my stuff seems to be "juvenile" to me. I know I need more practice.

JOY Cogito ergo sum.

Larimar Osprey
Posts:60

08/23/2007 6:47 PM	Alert
jI've never had a problem with developing my own style. Just keep creating and getting input. My style has lots of bits and pieces from God knows where - books, friends, tutorials, personal experience. You seem to be off to a good start. I would suggest increasing value contrast.

http://mistywolf.deviantart.com

StillRotraut
Posts:14

09/02/2007 4:53 PM	Alert
HI - personal style is like being left-handed: You came with it. We used to ask a professor of ours, who was particularly close to students: How do you get a style of drawing and painting that is recognizably your own??? And she would laugh and say: Just remember how it was when you learned to write. And compare your handwriting now to those painful efforts. If you write a lot - your personal handwriting will develop - and there is no other way. If you draw and paint a lot and never allow yourself a shifty-eyed penchant for someone elses style - you will become as recognizable for your own as Edward Hopper - who can be identified in a second - literally! - Like your paintings -lillies very nice - glass needs perhaps a second thought about perspective. Ope you keep working.

Joguff1977

Posts:22

09/04/2007 9:57 AM	Alert
I think my own style came when I stoped trying to do what I thought is should look like and I did what came to me. Try to drop the barriers and flow on a blank paper paint what comes to you. Even if it doesnt turn out it is fun. Joe

JoyK

Posts:195

09/04/2007 1:39 PM	Alert
Thanks for the replies; I'm trying to remember what drew me to w/c originally. Of course the color, but also the way the paint flows, and blending of colors. I am trying to "loosen up" and just experiment more. I've done a lot of reading and am probably overthinking and over planning.

JOY Cogito ergo sum.

Marian

Posts:183

09/07/2007 7:16 PM	Alert
Your paintings will be uniquely you no matter where you are on the continuum of developing your skills. I think that even "masters" continue to try new things and expand or refine their "style". Paint to satisfy your own needs and to express your own view of the world and the style will be "your style". Eventually if you paint enough and enough people see your work, they will begin to recognize it as yours. I think Scott Burdick is most famous for his figurative work, but lately I've seen a lot of his landscapes... The brushwork is what makes the work uniquely his I think. Gorgeous stuff. Keep on painting and loving what you paint and the ability do it.

Sometimes we paint to see more clearly or to feel more deeply. Marian www.marianfortunati.com www.fortunatifineart.com

eyecandy

Posts:152

10/01/2007 10:58 AM	Alert
Hi, I have tried to change my style many times, but I have never really succeeded. No matter how I try, the work always comes out in my style. What ever that is. So just keep painting and trying to make your work look better to your taste and eye and your style will be there. The only difference will be that your painting will get better as you work at them but the style will be the same.

Phil Sydell Boynton Beach, Fl phil-4a@comcast.net or phil4a@msn.com

jason

Posts:107

11/02/2007 6:02 PM	Alert
Hi- First, you might want to know what style you have now compared to others. You probably are a line artist , who likes color, and plays of light, and paints realistically. This , for example would be compared to someone who is impressionistic and does not care about line ( Renoir) compared to Degas - who emphasized line. So, if you better understand what style you already have, you can work to develop a style. This can be done by using different mediums, like oil and pastel acrylic. This knowledge will help you understand painting from different perspectives- and then you might want to work in a mixed medium. The combinations of skills will come out naturally with time as will the integrative nature of the different skills you bring to painting. Since everyones skills are of a different combination, your style will automatically be unique by definition. The other thing that will be usefull will be to state an artistic statement why you paint and then match your paintings to your statement. So- don't worry about style yet and try for the best looking painting you can. My book Creative Painting For The Young Artist can also help with developing an "artistic mode of seeing" needed for developing a style http://jasonalster.googlepages.com/creativityandrelaxedconcentration

Jason Alster MSc http://jasonalster.googlepages.com/creativityandrelaxedconcentration

J. Myrick

Posts:2

11/07/2007 9:32 PM	Alert
Be true to what you know....it is easy to paint what you know, and although classes are wonderful after the class go home and paint paint and paint...you will soon see that you you are deveolpling a style that is what feels right for you............good luck

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