chinchilla
Sep. 15th, 2021 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicMy 33rd acrylic painting finally has nothing to do with the UK. I made this as a gift for a friend who loves chinchillas and currently is unable to have one, so I hope she likes this.
I suspect that some people will call this the best one I have ever made, and most likely because of all the fuss and attention to small detail, esp. the fur. My friend is someone who appreciates meticulous realism in art, so I did this with her in mind. But now that I'm done, I come away with a sense that I always felt I was capable of doing such work, but somehow that isn't what excites me in my own art. Just as my cartooning and ink drawing when I was younger involved far more tiny lines, more obvious technique, than what I choose to do today. Today I am more interested in simplicity and stripping down. Like Alex Toth did when he got older. Like the Post-Impressionists and Fauvists and Expressionists did. I like this painting, and I'm fairly pleased with it, but I'd be more impressed if I could pull off something that feels like Münter or Vlaminck or Macke.
I suspect that some people will call this the best one I have ever made, and most likely because of all the fuss and attention to small detail, esp. the fur. My friend is someone who appreciates meticulous realism in art, so I did this with her in mind. But now that I'm done, I come away with a sense that I always felt I was capable of doing such work, but somehow that isn't what excites me in my own art. Just as my cartooning and ink drawing when I was younger involved far more tiny lines, more obvious technique, than what I choose to do today. Today I am more interested in simplicity and stripping down. Like Alex Toth did when he got older. Like the Post-Impressionists and Fauvists and Expressionists did. I like this painting, and I'm fairly pleased with it, but I'd be more impressed if I could pull off something that feels like Münter or Vlaminck or Macke.
