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 ETC: And just because I think it's cool, here's the palette I used:  Blobs of color take shape and form and become something you create with hundreds of brushstrokes. How crazy! |
by Brett Rogers, 12/21/2005 10:51:44 PM
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I love it. There is a lot of "motion" in it; I briefly thought it might've been an animated GIF, but my mind does that to me sometimes... and no, it isn't just the astigmatism. LOL Very nice. Satisfying. |
| | Posted by Anonymous, 12/21/2005 11:40:12 PM |
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Thanks Kris! I had my son pose for the picture about two weeks ago, and got around to painting it tonight. You know, one of these days, all I will have to do in a day is paint and fill some orders. That will be a great day! |
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I love it! Great work with the painting. |
| | Posted by Anonymous, 12/22/2005 11:28:14 AM |
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This is a weird detail-y thing, but I love the blue shirt. All of it is very cool, but that particular part TOTALLY reinforces everything you say about color creating depth. Awesome. |
| | Posted by Bella, 12/22/2005 1:42:02 PM |
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I like the painting, but I think it's too dark for a logo. Maybe lightening up the hair or something. |
| | Posted by Anonymous, 12/23/2005 10:03:06 AM |
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You know, I'm pretty happy with the painting, and Nick has dark hair, so I'll leave it as it is. But I do appreciate your honesty! And thanks Bella. What's weird is that I'm learning that black is a color I almost never use now. Shadows are never black. So I'm learning that the colors used to create depth, especially in shadows, are varied and gorgeous in their own right. |
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Brett, I never ever use black now except when I'm writing with an inkpen. :) For the same reason as you, too -- there's very little in this world that's truly flat-black, because light and shadow and reflections make it something else. True black, for me, indicates emptiness or nothingness. Once in a very great while I will add a teensy touch of it to another color to gray it down. In the same way, I almost never use white anymore either. In some of the bigwig watercolor competitions, they forbid its use, preferring negative space and highlighting to be done by leaving spaces of blank paper. |
| | Posted by Anonymous, 12/24/2005 10:44:19 AM |
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I totally agree, Kris. I found negative space to be the hardest part of watercolor. It's a difficult skill, paiting everyting but the negative space. |
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