St. Wilfrid's
Jan. 21st, 2021 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicMy 28th painting is another in my UK Series, and yet another old church in York. It took me a long time to work up the nerve to finish this one, for some reason. Like Minster Gates, this one was intended to be a gift for Sharon, but I was pretty sure she wouldn't like this new one as much. [And, as it eventually turned out, I was right in that -- she didn't.]
In the reference photo I took, the setting sun made the building look much pinker than it actually is. But I liked that aspect, and decided to push it here. So I knew going in that I would be taking a more expressionistic approach than something like Minster Gates, which seems to me very much an impressionist work. [Again, Sharon's feedback confirms me in my evaluation. She said that Minster Gates “up close looks like odd blobs and smears, but stand back and it looks like a photo” -- a pretty fair description of impressionism, I'd say.]
I didn't want to get so caught up in the details in this one, didn't want to evoke that photo experience, but rather focus on the colours and basic shapes. So I painted this one without wearing my glasses, so as to keep everything soft and vague. What I ended up with here reminded me of some of Gabriele Münter's work. Since she is my hero, I am gonna call that a win.
In the reference photo I took, the setting sun made the building look much pinker than it actually is. But I liked that aspect, and decided to push it here. So I knew going in that I would be taking a more expressionistic approach than something like Minster Gates, which seems to me very much an impressionist work. [Again, Sharon's feedback confirms me in my evaluation. She said that Minster Gates “up close looks like odd blobs and smears, but stand back and it looks like a photo” -- a pretty fair description of impressionism, I'd say.]
I didn't want to get so caught up in the details in this one, didn't want to evoke that photo experience, but rather focus on the colours and basic shapes. So I painted this one without wearing my glasses, so as to keep everything soft and vague. What I ended up with here reminded me of some of Gabriele Münter's work. Since she is my hero, I am gonna call that a win.
