I did a lot of research this week on how I wanted to develop my artwork moving forwards. I found the work of Rob Gonsales really interesting and want to take inspiration from his work. He does a lot of "magic reallism" which I find fascinating. I started trying to plan my project by look for patterns in the things around me and in nature.
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The last project went pretty well. I got a lot of positive feedback that I should continue moving in the direction of pushing surrealism, but toning it down a little more so I can focus on quality over quantity. One issue I had is that one of my goals was to work on composition and the coffee river line was a little to centered to be pushing composition, fair enough. I think my colors could've been amped up a little bit more too, moving forwards I want to work on lightening the piece as a whole a lot of my colors are very dark.
I watched the Art Talk of Andrew Goldkhule, a stain glass conservationist. He went to college and worked his way up in the construction industry before coming back to his love art. Once he started creating again, he found happiness and built a stain glass conservation company which has been his profession for the last eleven year. Goldkhule believes that his job is to not "put his own spin" on the work, but to preserve the beauty of the artists original work. Something I found interesting is he said he wants his work to be solid enough to revamp the peace and make sure it doesn't fall further into disrepair, but he also wants anything he does to be reversible in case better technology comes along
Things are coming along pretty good on the piece, I'm trying to work out what I'm going to do in the foreground because I'm swaying away from my original plan.
I started a new painting this week because I didn't like the other one I was doing. I like this piece so much more and am much happier with my progress.
I'm trying my hand at a surrealist painting. I've never done anything like this before and honestly don't have a super solid plan. However, I'm finding it very fun and expressive. I like that I don't have to worry about making colors and images look super real or natural.
Throughout my home project, I learned a lot about acrylic painting. I further explored techniques and played around a little by using a bigger canvas. I think I had some success in my attempt at atmospheric perspective. I need work on better detail in the trees and work on extending the sense of distance throughout the whole work and not just in the mountains. I enjoyed the process and look forwards to continuing my exploration of acrylic painting.
Throughout this project, I did a lot of quick exploration with the paints. It took me several "practice pieces to learn to explore with the heat gun, pouring the wax, and carving. The weeks of the 16th and the 23rd is when I did most of my trials and then I started working on my final project the week of the 30th. First, I did the upper half of the piece and used tape to outline the bridge. Then, last week I played around with the water and the carving. Overall, I'm very happy with the project and It was a good introduction to encaustics.
I did a lot of work on my at home project and painted the mountains and started on the foreground. I need to go back and darken the sky a little and add more dimension to the mountains. I also worked on playing around with encaustics, but I messed up and used the brush cleaner as base so the piece turned out really bad.
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