Monochrome

Here is a piece I did in response to a comment made by a former prof about my work, which basically said that i seem to worry less about defining individual objects by their color when i work with a monochromatic setup. to that end, i set up a yellow still life ( since so many of my paintings are more dark in tone ) and also gave myself the limitation of not being able to use brown or blue in the painting, since i often use those colors in setting up my work. Given these initial conditions, thise painting came out well...i think that i may work on it more to define the objects a bit more from each other since right now the only things standing out are the lemons.

Trying something new...

So i took another drawing from the session that i went to last week and translated it into a painting. Here the focus is on using color to create the form, temporarily ignoring the actual color of the subject. Using an old canvas that i rubbed out, the figure is bulit up using blues and oranges, which look strangely yellow in this context...Limiting my colors and focusing on value over hue is an effort to get my paintings to mesh more closely with what i can achieve with my drawings.

Getting somewhere....

Some drawing

Ive been at something of a creative low as of late, but after a long talk with one of my former professors, ive gotten on track again, renewed, recharged. These drawings are me trying to get back in the swing, but then drawing doesnt confound me nearly as much as painting does...While doing these, i was trying to more carefully consider the quality of edge as it functions in a three dimensional space. definitely getting better at it, all it takes is practice. Ive done some paintings lately too, but that will be the next post...

Monet..?

So i was readng a book about monet landscapes that i brought last year earlier today and i got inspired to give that sort of style a try, and heres what i got after some preliminary working. I could say that its done at this point, but some fine-tuning could probably improve the piece a bit. Stark light-to-shadow contrast is working well, but the shadows could use a bit more depth, so thats where the bulk of the additional work will be done....