Painting for me is all about color. Yes I like a good design, and I am careful to have a good underlying drawing, but the part that I work at and am continually challenged by, is color. I like rich, warm color. I often use color directly from the tube to get the most intense color possible and then juxtapose it's opposite. I often use reds in shadows to warm them up. The worst mistake is to overuse white to lighten up colors and end up with a washed out look. I would say the overall look of my paintings are realistic with more intense or exaggerated color.
I have a painterly style. You can see most of my brush strokes. I blend colors but not to the point of hiding the process. To me the process is just as important as the subject in viewing a painting. If all the brush strokes are blended away it is like the artist left nothing of himself behind. Brush strokes are the signature of a painter and along with color choice, a measure of his passion.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
When Do I Get Serious About Art
When do I get serious about my art? It has always been important, but I feel like I never made the full commitment. I was always doing something else as well as doing art. Of course life gets in the way but doesn't a serious artist not let it? Am I afraid of failure? Or does success matter?
This is my first blog where I will be discussing my feelings about being a visual artist. I will talk about my fears, my challenges, my success and my failures. I think part of the answer to my first question, is in doing this blog. By making this commitment to share my feelings about art is making a commitment to be serious about making art a greater part of my life.
When I asked the question, "Does success matter?" I first have to decide what is success. Few artists get rich or famous, but that is two measures of success. The thing is, they didn't start out rich and famous, they started out with a passion to do the thing they loved, and when they arranged their lives to do that, that is the point they became successful artists. Art is in the doing. A rich artist or a poor artist fills their days the same way, doing art. Did Picasso stop doing art? Did Monet? They painted until they died because that is what they loved.
This is my first blog where I will be discussing my feelings about being a visual artist. I will talk about my fears, my challenges, my success and my failures. I think part of the answer to my first question, is in doing this blog. By making this commitment to share my feelings about art is making a commitment to be serious about making art a greater part of my life.
When I asked the question, "Does success matter?" I first have to decide what is success. Few artists get rich or famous, but that is two measures of success. The thing is, they didn't start out rich and famous, they started out with a passion to do the thing they loved, and when they arranged their lives to do that, that is the point they became successful artists. Art is in the doing. A rich artist or a poor artist fills their days the same way, doing art. Did Picasso stop doing art? Did Monet? They painted until they died because that is what they loved.
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