Thursday, August 14, 2008
Art Pact #64
(Also published on "Unchain My Art")
Still not feeling up to it, still keeping at those little bozzettos.
I'm slacking from the one-bozzetto-a-day promise I made to myself, but hey - tough. Happens. When the spirit is low, the energy is not always available.
Plus, I'm now trying to decide on three pieces to enter to the upcoming show at one of the art organizations I belong to, the one whose last year's annual show bestowed two awards upon me. Yeah, I know it's silly to expect a recurring success, but I am only human...
So, decisions, decisions... it's a juried show, and we can each submit up to three entries. Those who enter 3 pieces are guaranteed that at least one of them is accepted, so of course most people go for 3. My problem is not to come up with three - it's more to limit what I want to 3 only. I have 2 definite pieces, and I need to select one more out of a couple that I'd love to have in the show. Ah well, Monday is the deadline, so by Tuesday morning that will be behind me.
In the meantime - let me introduce you to Al.
Hard to tell what he is thinking of, what he is contemplating (maybe he, too, is trying to choose entries for a show), what plans run through his mind, almost materializing into action in the background that surrounds him.
I went for a drippy-spotty-splotchy kind of style that I am growing to like. The smooth Bristol paper on which I am working is showing every brush stroke, thus preventing me from doing perfect washes and forces texture - and I like it a lot.
Funny - on one hand I yearn to paint with those perfectly smooth washes, as I know a couple of painters who create magic with them. But whenever I myself resist the urge to texturize and go for those washes, they seem flat and boring to me, and I reach for anything that will ruin the perfection and bring some life into them.
Also, color-wise, I keep realizing that I work much better with limited palettes. At some point I dipped my brush in blue, and was amazed how much it all suddenly tied together and popped.
I'm learning a lot from these bozzettos - time to start utilizing all that wisdom on a bigger sheet of paper, eh?
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Still not feeling up to it, still keeping at those little bozzettos.
I'm slacking from the one-bozzetto-a-day promise I made to myself, but hey - tough. Happens. When the spirit is low, the energy is not always available.
Plus, I'm now trying to decide on three pieces to enter to the upcoming show at one of the art organizations I belong to, the one whose last year's annual show bestowed two awards upon me. Yeah, I know it's silly to expect a recurring success, but I am only human...
So, decisions, decisions... it's a juried show, and we can each submit up to three entries. Those who enter 3 pieces are guaranteed that at least one of them is accepted, so of course most people go for 3. My problem is not to come up with three - it's more to limit what I want to 3 only. I have 2 definite pieces, and I need to select one more out of a couple that I'd love to have in the show. Ah well, Monday is the deadline, so by Tuesday morning that will be behind me.
In the meantime - let me introduce you to Al.Hard to tell what he is thinking of, what he is contemplating (maybe he, too, is trying to choose entries for a show), what plans run through his mind, almost materializing into action in the background that surrounds him.
I went for a drippy-spotty-splotchy kind of style that I am growing to like. The smooth Bristol paper on which I am working is showing every brush stroke, thus preventing me from doing perfect washes and forces texture - and I like it a lot.
Funny - on one hand I yearn to paint with those perfectly smooth washes, as I know a couple of painters who create magic with them. But whenever I myself resist the urge to texturize and go for those washes, they seem flat and boring to me, and I reach for anything that will ruin the perfection and bring some life into them.
Also, color-wise, I keep realizing that I work much better with limited palettes. At some point I dipped my brush in blue, and was amazed how much it all suddenly tied together and popped.
I'm learning a lot from these bozzettos - time to start utilizing all that wisdom on a bigger sheet of paper, eh?
previous ArtPact... ...next ArtPact
# posted by Nava @ 2:06 PM 
Comments:
I love the word bozzetto .... very fun to say and makes you smile. As does your art, it is so beautiful.
I like what you've done, and I like what you've left undone.
Very thoughtful piece and really evokes a mood.
# posted by 
: 8/15/2008 4:48 PM
Blogauthor, yeah, it's a fun word. That's why I'm not creating more bozzettos - I'm to busy sitting around chanting it. And thanks!
Bonnie, why thank you so much! I also like what I have left undone, and I like a lot how you put it! Amazing how hard it is to keep yourself from over-doing it.
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Very thoughtful piece and really evokes a mood.
# posted by : 8/15/2008 4:48 PM
: 8/15/2008 4:48 PM Bonnie, why thank you so much! I also like what I have left undone, and I like a lot how you put it! Amazing how hard it is to keep yourself from over-doing it.
