still learning
Jul. 24th, 2022 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicOriginally I wasn't gonna share this painting here:
Allow me to explain why I changed my mind.
I usually share my pencil doodles on my social media, often to let people see that I don't always have a finished idea in mind, or work to make something good for people to see. It's in the spirit of “this is what it looks like when I hack around”. But my paintings? Usually I only show those when I feel like I've come up with something that people might enjoy looking at.
This wasn't one of those. This was more of a gouache doodle [and an excuse to test-drive the new Pébéo gouache set I recently got]. I posted it as such, primarily to let people see that I often have no idea what I'm doing.
My recent reading on painting put a few ideas in my head. Such as using a split-complementary palette, which I had never done before. And the Fauvist idea of using colours expressively to convey my feelings, as opposed to reflect actual appearance. I got thinking of how much I love skies, and I thought that red/pink could be a colour to reflect that love. And, from there, the complementary palette suggested green for the clouds. I also wanted to focus on curved brushstrokes, in the masses of foliage as well as the clouds. But that's as far as careful planning went with this — I was basically “hacking around to see what happened”. And now, I can see unfortunate tangents in the composition and whatnot, so it's not what I would consider a finished successful piece.
In my experience, paintings that move away from traditional realism aren't often met with much approval. But — to my surprise — I got a few vocal likes on this one, mostly saying that they really liked the colours. One lady said that if she had this, she would frame it and hang it up! So I got her address and gave it to her.
My point is that I have no idea what people are going to like, or not like. I'm tempted to give up trying to guess.
Allow me to explain why I changed my mind.
I usually share my pencil doodles on my social media, often to let people see that I don't always have a finished idea in mind, or work to make something good for people to see. It's in the spirit of “this is what it looks like when I hack around”. But my paintings? Usually I only show those when I feel like I've come up with something that people might enjoy looking at.
This wasn't one of those. This was more of a gouache doodle [and an excuse to test-drive the new Pébéo gouache set I recently got]. I posted it as such, primarily to let people see that I often have no idea what I'm doing.
My recent reading on painting put a few ideas in my head. Such as using a split-complementary palette, which I had never done before. And the Fauvist idea of using colours expressively to convey my feelings, as opposed to reflect actual appearance. I got thinking of how much I love skies, and I thought that red/pink could be a colour to reflect that love. And, from there, the complementary palette suggested green for the clouds. I also wanted to focus on curved brushstrokes, in the masses of foliage as well as the clouds. But that's as far as careful planning went with this — I was basically “hacking around to see what happened”. And now, I can see unfortunate tangents in the composition and whatnot, so it's not what I would consider a finished successful piece.
In my experience, paintings that move away from traditional realism aren't often met with much approval. But — to my surprise — I got a few vocal likes on this one, mostly saying that they really liked the colours. One lady said that if she had this, she would frame it and hang it up! So I got her address and gave it to her.
My point is that I have no idea what people are going to like, or not like. I'm tempted to give up trying to guess.
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Date: 2022-07-24 11:12 pm (UTC)My mom's an artist, and I inherited absolutely 0 of her talent, so the fact that you can actually paint something impresses me. :) Thanks for sharing! :)
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Date: 2022-07-24 11:20 pm (UTC)