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Ok, now on to the demo! I started, even before the demo, by assessing different photos. This place was fantastically gorgeous, and I wanted to try my hand at something from it. Below you can see options 1 and 2, which I passed up. Photo art is an expression, in my opinion, would be better served by painting it larger. The FP is also very centered. Photo 2 felt too top heavy for me. In Photo 3, I really liked this double banding from the two fallen logs and their two shadows. Leading lines like these help guide you through a painting, like a broken down Z, creating additional points of interest. One of the attendees asked what my focal point was in a jumbled subject like this. I was aiming for that little dark patch below the two logs, but things became clearer to me after finishing the painting. I did a notan the evening before, to make sure I could simplify things. This exists in the photos, but note how I accentuate it in the notan and the final painting, and 2 the upper back area needs to be dark enough to really allow the logs to art is an expression read as a strong statue of athena parthenos. Note how light that upper area is in the photo.
In the notan, the value contrast is bold, and it acts as a reminder to me as I paint.
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Making notans likes these is a process of simplification and design. I funnel things down to the essentials, and that helps me make decisions, but once I get to painting, I open the image back up, complicate the values again some, etc. Much like sand through an hour glass … so are the days of our lives ….
Much like an hourglass, art is an expression composition process simplifies itself first, gets channeled down to the narrow neck of the notan, and then opens back up to complications again as I paint it… but always with the thinking of the notan in the back of my mind.
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art is an expression Making a successful notan should be a thinking, decision-making process. Now, making a painting is a process. Learning through doing. First, I went back in and began to push little muted highlights into the dark areas for 1. The art is an expression areas were too flat for me at the end of the demo much like a notanand I wanted them to read with more sophisticated shapes once you really started to look deeper into it. For 2, I scratched in little highlights, and then added in darker bits to continue the exprssion of the branches. Doing this over the front log was particularly useful, because it helps situate the big log into the context of the rest of the image.
For 3, I went back in again with a light wash, trying to get that light to really gleam off of the logs. I also did a light grey wash on the shores of the creek, to separate the pebbly sand from the shallow water… while also trying to keep them all as a comparatively light value. After finishing the demo, I did a ie over that lower bush, trying to knock it back.
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Even so, it ends up stealing too much attention. Finally, if I had the time, I would drop more pebbles and such into the foreground. I want to push the depth, and that requires strong texture in the foreground for our eyes to hold on to. The light is strong and the canyon feels very alive. Thank you! Seamless Expression.
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