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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Waterfalls Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:46 pm | |
| This painting was done with acrylics as part of the class I am taking with Johannes Vloothius and is based on one of the photos he provided for us to apply color mapping techniques to. You can see his work at http://improvemypaintings.com/onlinegallery/ This is the preliminary value map. Here is the painting. I made a few revisions after he reviewed it and will post that later today. Judy | |
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:14 am | |
| Great painting Judy! Love the cascading water. | |
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watermixableguy Moderator
Posts : 972 Join date : 2010-06-11 Location : New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:19 am | |
| Judy, it sounds like you are picking up some very useful tools in your workshops. Learning to visualize and analyze a scene for value would definitely help strengthen our paintings! Thanks for sharing this! | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:57 pm | |
| Thank you both. Here is the revised painting. It is hard to see the change in the photo, but what was recommended to me by the instructor was to reduce the detail in the rocks on the left. I'm a detail person and tend to get hung up in them. Theoretically, the detail should be mainly used around the focal point. The details in the upper portion of the left rocks was tending to pull me away from the COF and Johannes picked up on that. The other recommendation was to put more gradation in color. I always love the way that looks but never seem to accomplish it. Alan, you do a great job on the building fronts in your Sant'Allesio painting. I added more blues and ochres in to the lighter rocks on the right and that did help make them more interesting. The third recommendation was to reduce the value of the tree in the right upper corner since I had identified it as being a mid-value in my value map. There is so much to learn. I hope some of this is helpful to you all. Judy | |
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:51 am | |
| I can see the colors better in this one and I do love the way you handled the colors throughout the painting. | |
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Dale
Posts : 573 Join date : 2009-11-17 Location : Near Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:39 am | |
| I love the rocks on the right - beautiful colour. | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:16 am | |
| When it was critiqued for class, I was told to reduce the detail in the rocks, especially in the left. As I look at it now, I see glaring clones dead center where the rock divides the falls. Oh well, one more time.
Judy | |
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Crystal1
Posts : 639 Join date : 2010-02-05 Location : Ft Worth, TX
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:33 pm | |
| Seems like a very different style for you Judy. I like it a lot. Dayle | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Waterfalls Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:52 pm | |
| Thanks Dayle,
I'm learning. I have wanted to get away from copying photos so precisely and some of these techniques that are being taught by Johannes are helping. I still have a long way to go, though.
Judy | |
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