Everyday I feel like I am getting a little closer to my goal. I want my paintings to come alive. The strokes in the face are too similar in value and color so it loses a bit of the energy. I am working bigger and I am finding that I overwork areas a little too much. I want to mix value and color and put down swatches and let them standwith as little blending as possible. I want to leave details to the imagination but leave no room for error when it comes to value and color. So while this is not exactly adhering to that I am sure that is what I want to do. I will work on this again in a couple of days when it is dry.Friday, October 24, 2008
The Ann Gale Experiment
Everyday I feel like I am getting a little closer to my goal. I want my paintings to come alive. The strokes in the face are too similar in value and color so it loses a bit of the energy. I am working bigger and I am finding that I overwork areas a little too much. I want to mix value and color and put down swatches and let them standwith as little blending as possible. I want to leave details to the imagination but leave no room for error when it comes to value and color. So while this is not exactly adhering to that I am sure that is what I want to do. I will work on this again in a couple of days when it is dry.
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I've never had the opportunity to see
her paintings except in digital reproduction over the internet,
but it appears as if she is using a
knife instead of a brush on most of the
paintings. The color is extremely clean,
and the edges of many marks are very sharp. Do you think this is right?
Actually I am sure she uses the knife at times. You can even occasionally see the outline of the knife on a paint stroke. I am pretty sure that the brush is her primary tool. To me it looks like the painting surface is very smooth and she uses soft brushes to put down precise strokes of clean color and leaves them without any further manipulation. She has many sittings and I am sure the paint dries between sittings. A great person to ask is my friend Chelsea Bentley James. She is in the Dolby Chadwick Gallery with Ann Gale.
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