I must say the finished product is not what I envisioned before I created this piece. The picture as you can see is a simple outline of a cat on black entitle The Cat. I guess what I don’t care about are the colors in the background and the way it appears to me as unrefined. I have done another version done in acrylics on Pinterest. Neither of these pictures I am enamored with and I know sometime in the future I will revisit them and redo them.
A good article on the need to see values (the artistic kind} in all the art work we create. Unless you’re creating a monochrome painting values help a painting pop.
A month ago I posted a drawing of an enormous hornet’s nest that took both a considerable amount of time to draw, as well as space on my kitchen table while doing so. Shortly thereafter a friend suggested that I had drawn it upside down! The opening on a hornet’s nest is typically at the bottom which, apparently, helps keep rain out, and I had drawn it at the top. Solving the problem wasn’t a simple matter of turning the drawing around— the shading and composition simply didn’t hold up when the drawing was flipped. So, with reluctance, I went back to the drawing board, as they say, for another go.
Although this piece took just about as long as the first one—15+ hours over the course of two weeks— I was able to take what I learned the last time and push the drawing further. The best part of…
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Great post all artists need to read
It’s a long-standing cliché that artists are their own worst critics. There’s a lot of truth to this, if my own pessimistic thoughts are to be believed about a digitally-edited painting that I made a few hours before writing this article (and consider to be a “failure”).
The full-size painting will be posted here in early February, but here’s a reduced-size preview:
Ironically, it actually looks mildly better at a lower resolution. But, the proportions are wrong and my attempts to make the background look more interesting (via digital editing) have actually made it even more boring!
Still, if experience has taught me anything, there’s a significant chance that other people will actually like it. Every artist has probably experienced something like this once or twice. We make what we think is a failed painting, only for other people to really like it (either online or in real life
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I don’t why I seem to love the simplest forms of art like line drawings. Though when I step back and look the line drawings always seem unfinished to me and I feel the need to add color to them. Today’s offering entitled Penguins on the March is one such drawing. It is a line drawing done in ink and highlighted in watercolor pencil. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating the print.
An original 11 x 14 acrylic landscape entitled country road painted on cardboard. The painting is available for sale. Please contact me if interested.
A little bit of inspiration can go a long way. If you need a little inspiration I advise you read this article.
Stop saying you can’t paint or draw. Find some known or unknown friends and get together in a painters group. Never mind if you have not painted before. Just get yourselves some painting or drawing materials.
Then you set up a drawing or painting session and start painting. If you don’t know what to draw or paint, find out something together and see how different you can interpret the motif.
We did this in my painters group Pink Bucket.
First we drew a face. One of us did the cheek and forehead, one did hair and nose and others eyes and so on.
Then we decided to paint/draw our own interpretations of this facelines. To color it in we used these things to choose colors and patterns for our faces.
You can see a frog shoe, a hat with a ribbon, a basket, a green little chain on the basket…
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One of my favorite paintings I’ve ever painted was something like this one, it was a little girl standing on the beach watching her balloon fly off into the sky. This one, entitled A Boy and His Cat, is similar in it’s simplicity. The drawing is on white paper, outlined in pen and lightly colored.
An art teacher once told me “You must pick one medium and stick with it in order to become good in that medium.” I took her statement to heart and divested a lot of time back in the 90’s creating new pieces in chalk pastels. While I I love the medium I always wanted to venture out into other areas like pen and ink and acrylic paints.
After a few years life took over and I didn’t create many pieces until the last couple of years when I ventured into the wonderful world of acrylics. I love the paints but I also have found a love for some other mediums like colored pencils, watercolors and blue pen
In the wisdom of my years of art work, yeah right, I have found while I agree with part of the statement about to become better at anything you must practice, I also don’t agree with sticking with one medium. I don’t know if it is my adult ADD but I love to create art in what ever form I am led to use. If I want to make a collage I pick up the pieces and create. I also love cartoons and manga. I guess what it boils down to for me is why pick one medium when you can use whatever is available?
Well here’s another one, a portrait drawing that is meant to resemble the person I am drawing but with bigger eyes. Although this one did not turn out the way I had hoped I still feel like I am making progress. Yeah, determination combined with inspiration.
