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| Painting 1. The background is a light gray which you cant tell by the picture. |
Showing posts with label source of materials and inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label source of materials and inspiration. Show all posts
Monday, April 25, 2011
Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing creativity
In Gilbert's speech she mentioned a moment while writing Eat, Pray, Love where she finds herself stuck in her own genius and she feels this intense feeling of failure. I had a similar experience last week while working on my second painting in the series. I have never felt 100% confident in my painting abilities until I produced my first piece of work. However embarking on my second piece for some reason I could not get over the fact that one would be better then the other or the shading ect was not perfect. I then came to thought that it's ok to not be perfect; flaws sometimes make things beautiful. I know I have flaws in my paintings but I know its the way that I make flaws which makes my piece beautiful and unique.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Painting
So far there is shading on a couple of the flowers and I need to work on the last two and shading on the others. Im also contemplating what the background color should be..any ideas?
Monday, April 11, 2011
Week 3
This week so far i have begun my first of 2 paintings. The picture on the left is the start of the painting and the picture on the right is the start of the first purple flower. I have not started my main shading yet. What I plan to do is take a light to help guide me what should be lighter and which places should be darker.
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| purple flower beginning |
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| Outline in pencil and start of black stems ect |
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Georgia O'Keeffe
I love Georgia O'Keeffe. Her paintings are made of abstract flowers along with looking so realistic. That is what I want to portray in my paintings
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Double Block Reflection
Today was an amazing day! I finished up stretching out both canvas for my project. I then went over them with a white paint to finish them off and tighten up the canvas material. Im so excited to start painting. Im going to start both paintings that way if I get tired of doing one there is the other one to do.
A problem that I faced when starting the white primer was that it bends the canvas and contorts the rectangular shape. So in order to fix this I laid down a bottle of paint on each corner so the canvas would dry properly.
A problem that I faced when starting the white primer was that it bends the canvas and contorts the rectangular shape. So in order to fix this I laid down a bottle of paint on each corner so the canvas would dry properly.
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| The first coat of the white primer |
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| Frame before the canvas |
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| Piecing together the frame |
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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