The 100 Paintings In a Year Challenge is intended for artists that are dedicated to the growth and development of their style as well as their artistic voice. The challenge also provides a means for overcoming areas in need of improvement.
The paintings should be a mix of small, medium and large pieces, some sketches, plein aire, and studio work; work from life as well as from photos. The variety is meant to push the artist out of any rut, to provide ample opportunity to create no matter what other time obligations are going on, and to challenge the artist if they do not create in one of these categories. The work can be done in any medium, but it is strongly advised that the artist consider choosing one medium in which to do the Challenge as this will help facilitate faster growth than trying to master multiple mediums.
DO NOT JUDGE the artwork! When a piece is complete, set it aside and move to the next piece of work. Learning to suspend judgement of our work is a major step forward in the development our skills.
Once committed, the expectation is that the artist will fully participate in the blog by posting on a regular basis as well as leaving encouraging comments of others' artwork through comments.
The challenge may be started at any time.
4 comments:
Wowee Brinda, it is gorgeous!! The crystal looks wonderful.
Without know what areas you are seeking comment about specifically let me give you my impressions of this piece....
Love the background. The pink "material" looks like a piece of velvet and steals the show from the crystal. The crystal is well drawn and it reads as glass. The top of the tall vase is especially well done.
Crystal reflects EVERYTHING around it - greens, blues, purples, yellows reds, etc., and I really don't see too much of those colors in either piece of crystal. I would love to see the grayed blues, greens and purples in place of some of the grayed grays.
Crystal is one of those wonderfully reward subjects to paint as well as crazy-making trying to get all the facets to read right and to "glint" as glass does. BRAVO to you for tackling it!
A wonderful piece!
What a beautiful painting! I love it.
Wow! This is a difficult subject. It does look like crystal. I agree with Laure that touches of other colors rather than so much grey (sometimes we have to take artistic license). I especially like the reflections on the back side of the bowl on left.
I would not have had the backdrop go from red to white right along the left edge of the vase. It brings too much attention to that spot. I think just a little one way or the other would be better. ... but maybe you were supposed to paint excactly what you saw.
Good job on a difficult subject!
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