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Sunday, May 8, 2011
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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:
I like watching you work on depicting yourself! Is this done with three primary colors? Did you create the dark glasses with those instead of using black? It is so interesting to have these lively colors come together instead of mixing up the most accurate color beforehand and using that.
...love this one, Liz. You are great with the color (also--cool glasses! :-)
Thanks Kelly, Lorrie I don't use black so I mix the deepest colors togetherand think of complements alongside each other. I am afraid the thought of accuratly determining color , Then painting, is part of my undeveloped skill set. I get so caught up in the colors responding to each other; I get a sort of domino effect where I then change colors around the painting. ...sometimes it works , and then not. Using watercolor is a huge challenge for me, the edge comes quickly.Thanks!
Hey Liz, I also don't use black, and try to create the darks with mixtures of a complementary colors. Sometimes it's "muddy" -- but other times it separates somewhat on wet paper in ways that I love. As you know, it's not always easy to get a good dark black with certain pigments mixed (LOL cerulean blue, forget it, right? but it makes a lovely gray with vermillion). I've been appreciating Payne's gray lately, and indigo, for their darkness right out of the tube.
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