Value studies of fabric (homework, week 1)
Homework: one value study of NON-patterned fabric-- look at the folds, the darks and lights- this is an exercise! And 3 of your 4 should be of ONE object on fabric. Look for contrasts in texture (failed in that!).
Oldest/first experiments in fabric are at the bottom and newest/last are what are up to first. That thing is an onion and not a lemon. I used charcoal and graphite, WS pencil and graphite, and acrylic paint. With paint I tried to a big brush and tried to work quickly and gesturally and held the brush loosely (vs gripped). That worked on the mountains fabric folds but not on the chair or onion.
The sweater and chair are unfinished. The chair is the child's school chair from my kitchen and not adult sized. It's getting better but I have spent WAY TOO MUCH time fussing with it. I've changed the background a couple of times, changed the floor, reminded myself there were shadows of the chair and drew them in. The colors a flat and dull, not sure what to do about that. Yet.
What is the point of the onion and how do I make it in that painting. Why is the onion there? For now I think this is an exercise in texture that will reveal itself to me later in some other painting.
Maybe there needs to be some action or some other tension. I like the fabric-mountains because they look like mountains and I could be there and why is that sky that weird color? And the sweater chair looks has some possible action in that there was/is a person who may come back for the sweater.
I'm thinking about spring and pre-spring. I think about fishing and I should be tying flies instead of painting. I want to fish and I know I will and I want to be out there on those late winter and early spring days on some icy stream, nymphing for fish that don't really want my flies. And then looking at the sunset and making photos to paint from later.
The sweater and chair are unfinished. The chair is the child's school chair from my kitchen and not adult sized. It's getting better but I have spent WAY TOO MUCH time fussing with it. I've changed the background a couple of times, changed the floor, reminded myself there were shadows of the chair and drew them in. The colors a flat and dull, not sure what to do about that. Yet.
What is the point of the onion and how do I make it in that painting. Why is the onion there? For now I think this is an exercise in texture that will reveal itself to me later in some other painting.
Maybe there needs to be some action or some other tension. I like the fabric-mountains because they look like mountains and I could be there and why is that sky that weird color? And the sweater chair looks has some possible action in that there was/is a person who may come back for the sweater.
I'm thinking about spring and pre-spring. I think about fishing and I should be tying flies instead of painting. I want to fish and I know I will and I want to be out there on those late winter and early spring days on some icy stream, nymphing for fish that don't really want my flies. And then looking at the sunset and making photos to paint from later.
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