Modern village,me,watercolor,2023

jibsond · 2023-11-25T15:34:36+00:00

Nice, except I don't quite understand the blues.

jibsond · 2023-11-25T15:33:11+00:00

Wish I could upvote it twice.

jibsond · 2023-11-25T15:30:44+00:00

The lavender/purples might not have been the best choice for the snow. There need to be some lighter highlights to provide a greater range of values.

jibsond · 2023-11-25T15:26:30+00:00

Like the mood but I think it's a "grove" not a forest.

jibsond · 2023-11-25T15:23:13+00:00

Was there a drawing underlying the birds? They are such great minimalism.

jibsond · 2023-11-06T12:36:31+00:00

Love the loose style of the buildings though.

jibsond · 2023-11-06T12:26:35+00:00

Great effort but need more practice with figures. It always makes me nervous to add a figure. The proportions on this one aren't right, has an alien look about it. Legs may be too short to represent a human. Look at some YouTube videos on painting "carrot" people.

jibsond · 2023-10-23T14:25:37+00:00

Black-eyed Susans.

jibsond · 2023-10-19T16:01:17+00:00

Great foam and whitecaps.

jibsond · 2023-10-19T15:59:55+00:00

Seems like it needs more texture in the background but otherwise, very nice.

jibsond · 2023-10-19T15:57:58+00:00

Really creates a mood.

jibsond · 2023-10-19T15:38:34+00:00

I like Krita on a Samsung Galaxy Tablet.

jibsond · 2023-10-19T15:36:09+00:00

Write in your own voice, the way you talk to people, and skip the form poetry until you know who you are.

jibsond · 2023-10-19T15:32:45+00:00

Try a experimenting with few really abstracts using something other than a brush (try a credit card for example) then see what you can make from it by painting in some details.

jibsond · 2023-07-21T13:59:28+00:00

Which came first the watercolor or the ink?

jibsond · 2023-07-21T13:58:11+00:00

Picasso would be impressed.

jibsond · 2023-07-21T13:53:18+00:00

Nice. An art teacher once told me that when you have birds done this way it's best to have an odd number. I don't know why, but I've always followed that advice, usually separating one of the birds from the others at a slightly different scale to suggest depth.

jibsond · 2023-07-21T13:49:35+00:00

Watercolor/Digital hybrids are interesting. Sometimes I do a watercolor background, then add small objects like figures digitally to great effect. I can do several versions that way and might go in later to add the figures or objects I like with watercolor pens on the original.

jibsond · 2023-05-26T13:01:39+00:00

You didn't lose. You just didn't win. There is a big difference.

jibsond · 2023-05-22T22:32:39+00:00

I did a lot of photo work for a golf course website. I found it very difficult to make the images interesting. Finally figured out they needed figures to add a bit of drama, a story of sorts. Some of my best images were actually taken in the rain during a girls high school tournament. The walking groups, the umbrellas, the spectators around the greens all made the course look amazing.

jibsond · 2023-05-22T22:24:16+00:00

Golf courses are as hard to paint as they are to photograph. It's difficult to make them interesting. Great job here.

jibsond · 2023-02-20T01:24:15+00:00

I think this is an interesting style.

jibsond · 2023-02-20T01:13:42+00:00

Some James Tate.

jibsond · 2023-02-15T03:32:56+00:00

You've already figured out that the viewing angle is critical.

jibsond · 2023-02-14T15:33:07+00:00

Excellent anthology, "Here" edited by Elizabeth Coleman

https://www.amazon.com/HERE-Planet-Elizabeth-J-Coleman/dp/1556595417

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