Oil on paper.

Trying a lose style, don’t look too close :-)

You can check out the intermediate steps on my revived (but resetted 😭) lemmy server here lemmy.mindoki.com/c/aip

  • cashmaggot@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh this is really fun! I was scrolling through and saw your piece and just had to take a second and pause. It made me =)!

    I’ve got a ping-pong wing-wong kinda brain though and these are the three things that popped up when I saw it: tomie, monet, and a mountain pass

    In that order, so take it as you will but I like it. If you want some soft-criticism I would say working on pushing the forms a bit more might be worth having a think about. Because, and this is a personal opinion, I think you can be abstract while still being a little bit neater than what I am seeing in kinda the upper left area abouts. But I understand what all the shapes are, and I think that’s really nice!

    The only other thing I would say, and I am not sure if it’s due to value or composition (because it’s very centric in its focus) but as I see it - the figure sits in front of the opening. Although the opening is compositionally clearly in front of the figure. So it creates this real tension with the eyes that causes a lot of bouncing back and forth. But overall it really is a fun painting and I think you did a great job. So take these as you will =)

    • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.comOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Wow thank you so much! I love the impressionist style so much, especially Renoir Monet and Manet.

      Gotta check out Tomir I don’t know that artist.

      All criticisms warmly appreciated and well taken! I know there are lots of errors in the painting, like the values of the sun spots, the green versus the sand, the details missing in the bushes/trees…

      I also made the person just slightly too big, and messed up the distinct natural border between the path and the beach (those green leaves to the right) so there is a line but it gets blurred away…

      Thanks again it really warms my heart 💖

    • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.comOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I just understood your comment about the person sitting in front of the opening. So true, oups!

      Maybe the colours needs to be a bit more distant with less red and toned down a bit. Guess I’ll have to try it again!

      • cashmaggot@piefed.social
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        2 months ago

        Betty Edwards was a huge proponent of it. And although it personally hurts my brain, it does make things more fun and the results can be quite interesting. As if your evil-twin took control of your paper =P!

        • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.comOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Ha ha I know that book in the link with the man sitting!

          Great advice to unlock precincieved or just natural ideas we have about how big things are.