From the Artist: This was a very quick, early morning painting and my first attempt at abstract. I was trying to capture the shapes of the inner part of a succulent plant without it looking like one as such.
My medium was acrylic - unsealed, on a cheap piece of canvas sheeting. I spent an hour taking the photo, downloading it, and then doing a quick paint interpretation without getting too fussy.
From the Painting Guide: Your painting shows you've certainly internalized the aim of the project and the concept of abstraction. You've taken your succulent photo and developed a painting from it that echoes the photo but is different. You've used the fundamental shapes (and the arrangement of these) and colors to create a graphic and strong abstraction.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: One of the 'rules' of composition in a painting is supposedly to never put the focus right in the center. But rules are, of course, meant to be broken occasionally and this painting is one such. Looking at it I find my eye is pulled strongly into the center, but then moves out again. Back and forth, back and forth. To me the arrangement of elements and colors creates an energy that keeps my eye moving around the painting.
Taking it One Step Further: This painting is done using opaque colors, which is part of what gives it the feeling it did. Words that come to mind with opaque colors are solid, flat, hard, definite. To take the idea one step further, I'd do another version using transparent colors, painting glazes to build up color. The resulting colors can be more complex than opaque colors, being built up through multiple layers rather than just one or two.
This is not to imply that either opaque or transparent colors are better than the other, just that doing a similar painting using the two will be a good learning process in part of the lifelong journey of exploring color.
My medium was acrylic - unsealed, on a cheap piece of canvas sheeting. I spent an hour taking the photo, downloading it, and then doing a quick paint interpretation without getting too fussy.
From the Painting Guide: Your painting shows you've certainly internalized the aim of the project and the concept of abstraction. You've taken your succulent photo and developed a painting from it that echoes the photo but is different. You've used the fundamental shapes (and the arrangement of these) and colors to create a graphic and strong abstraction.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: One of the 'rules' of composition in a painting is supposedly to never put the focus right in the center. But rules are, of course, meant to be broken occasionally and this painting is one such. Looking at it I find my eye is pulled strongly into the center, but then moves out again. Back and forth, back and forth. To me the arrangement of elements and colors creates an energy that keeps my eye moving around the painting.
Taking it One Step Further: This painting is done using opaque colors, which is part of what gives it the feeling it did. Words that come to mind with opaque colors are solid, flat, hard, definite. To take the idea one step further, I'd do another version using transparent colors, painting glazes to build up color. The resulting colors can be more complex than opaque colors, being built up through multiple layers rather than just one or two.
This is not to imply that either opaque or transparent colors are better than the other, just that doing a similar painting using the two will be a good learning process in part of the lifelong journey of exploring color.