NEWEST PAINTING
I feel very pleased with my latest painting. I have been taking more risks as the semester moves on- I guess one has no choice when working from photographs, right? I'm home in Cape May this weekend so I'm gonna go around to the local docks to take pictures for more boat material. My research has slowed down a bit while I'm concentrating on producing more. I'm excited to continue painting like this. I just hope everything keeps flowing as smoothly as it has!
CRITIQUE FRIDAY OCTOBER 7th
Critique went really well. Catherine Murphy stopped in to ours and had a lot of constructive criticism for each of us. She is really open to and interested in all genres of art. I found this great being that the majority of her work is photo-realistic. She urged me to continue with making my paintings engaging and brooding. She suggested I begin working larger. I definitely want to heed this advice, but I'm terrified! I have not worked larger than 4'x4'... It's about time to face my fear though and just dive in. Larger paintings make more of an impact on their viewers, and that is undoubtedly what my overall goal is.
For my next painting I want to utilize the similar techniques of Peter Doig and Egon Schiele. Both of their styles are incredibly unique, and a fusion would be nothing short of intriguing. I especially like the fragmented quality of Schiele's landscape paintings. They are kind of awkward in a sense and give me an uneasy feeling.
Egon Schiele: Autumn Trees
" Art cannot be modern, art is eternal"- Egon Schiele
So I have been reading a few excerpts from "Between Ruin and Renewal" on Egon Schiele by Kimberly A. Smith. Here's the link:
http://books.google.com/books?id=U_xpaF86M8IC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=egon+schiele+landscape+interview&source=bl&ots=8S21rdsmmv&sig=WwMupfNnyOmA6bKMpw7w6qL_ZL0&hl=en&ei=5viVTtvIG-X10gGRnJC9Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false
One particular section focuses on the painting, Autumn Trees (pictured above ^). The "composition remains focused on the trees' striking presence within an empty landscape". "Aside from the trees few objects are present, adding to the sense that these organisms are as capable of transmitting important content as any human body" (pg 141). Sometimes, less information is more. Perhaps I can try focusing more on the object I want my viewers to pay most attention to. I just hope the object will not seem disconnected from the ground in which it lies. I have a few photos of boats in the water with little surrounding information. Perhaps I could take this further and put the surrounding landscape on the back burner. My pieces could then become figurative in a sense- kind of like a silhouette painting. I guess it all depends on the way I handle my paint and brush stroke. This is a relatively new idea so I need to flesh it out more.
http://books.google.com/books?id=U_xpaF86M8IC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=egon+schiele+landscape+interview&source=bl&ots=8S21rdsmmv&sig=WwMupfNnyOmA6bKMpw7w6qL_ZL0&hl=en&ei=5viVTtvIG-X10gGRnJC9Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false
One particular section focuses on the painting, Autumn Trees (pictured above ^). The "composition remains focused on the trees' striking presence within an empty landscape". "Aside from the trees few objects are present, adding to the sense that these organisms are as capable of transmitting important content as any human body" (pg 141). Sometimes, less information is more. Perhaps I can try focusing more on the object I want my viewers to pay most attention to. I just hope the object will not seem disconnected from the ground in which it lies. I have a few photos of boats in the water with little surrounding information. Perhaps I could take this further and put the surrounding landscape on the back burner. My pieces could then become figurative in a sense- kind of like a silhouette painting. I guess it all depends on the way I handle my paint and brush stroke. This is a relatively new idea so I need to flesh it out more.
GOALS FOR THIS WEEK
*BIGGER CANVASES!
*Collect more images of boats and docks from home
*Do sketches on site so more emotion and preciousness can become evident in my paintings- after all that is what I am aiming to do
*Keep taking risks
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