The best way to describe Saturday's swim team, "LUMINOUS". Good punctuation at 30 feet and closeup. Beautiful, clean brush marks abounded with light and shadow well punctuated!
Beautiful, clean brush marks don't always show at a distance - closeup, a necessity....period! Not described with boring repetitive brush work...certain death on canvas. Perhaps the hardest thing to master. We worked on that a bit Friday and Saturday.
So really, there are three (3) important things going on at the same time while painting... VISUAL AWARENESS, PUNCTUATION AND BRUSH MARKS.
On the other side of the line is OVER BLENDING! Losing punctuation! Those beautiful, clean marks.....sadly lost. Often the things that make great paintings great! Because closeup, they might look garish, not right in some way.....shadows to dark, passages often diluted with white instead of rich colour, overworked to insipid meaningless CHALK.
VISUAL AWARENESS, working with a shape as opposed to going against it is clearly the other SNAKE in the room. Visual awareness of actual shapes... colour rhythms that produce light and shadow......are not random but very deliberate and necessary marks in telling a cohesive story on canvas. Capturing the essence can be described with infinite variation.....in the end it has to be plausible to the eye.
S.I.P Team is starting to understand which side of the line in the sand is painting.
SOME COOL TEAM SHOTS
The cherry on top is MOVEMENT..:=)
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