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300lb coldpress Arches, Apeiies, Athens Georgia, Ben Burton Park, color, expressionism, expressionist, expressive, Harold Speed, Media and Subjects, native, Native Plants, nature, nature-native, noname creek, Oconee River, process, walk, walk in the N. Georgia woods, water brush, winter
noname creek 08 …rocks, shadows and shoals
(watercolor and charcoal)
I’ve spent more time on this painting than I normally do but I think it was worth the effort. I began with idea of moving up in size to 22×15 ; as well as, using 140lb Arches coldpress but for practical and aesthetic reasons I decided to use 15×11 300lb Arches coldpress. Changing your support is a fundamental change in how you work. I chose the 300lb paper because it is very tough and I wanted to try some lifting and that requires a strong durable surface.
Studies for noname creek 08
Typically I don’t do studies, preferring to work more directly from my resource materials. However, with this painting I wanted to explore some possibilities in composition, color and approach before I started.
When you do studies one of the most important things to remember is not to fall in love with the ideas you’re exploring. Keep the ones that work and drop the ones that don’t.
Changing your support is a fundamental change in how you work. I chose the 300lb paper because it is very tough and I wanted to try some lifting and that requires a strong durable surface.
Entering the Lyndon House Show for Local Artists
I’ll be entering 3 paintings in the local juried show here in Athens. The judge will be Carter Foster curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. I’ll be entering noname creek 08 …rocks, shadows and shoal (above); noname creek 07 …moss covered rocks and Winter Pecan
Form and expression
Art probably owes more to form for its range of expression than to colour. Many of the noblest things it is capable of conveying are expressed by form more directly than by anything else. And it is interesting to notice how some of the world’s greatest artists have been very restricted in their use of colour, preferring to depend on form for their chief appeal. It is reported that Apelles only used three colours, black, red, and yellow, and Rembrandt used little else.
Harold Speed
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Practice & Science Of Drawing
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