From the Artist: I haven't painted for years, but I broke my right hand and decided to become ambidextrous.
From the Painting Guide: Making people use their "wrong" hand is a standard exercise in art workshops, and the results are often surprising because the lack of control means you can't work on auto-pilot nor fuss so much over detail. Ambidextrous is very useful as a painter as you can work with a brush in either hand, or a brush and a cloth.
I admit, I'm not quite sure what to make of a painting of a hummingbird buzzing in someone's ear... there could be all sorts of symbolism here that I'm just not getting. So I'm going to ignore that line of comment and stick to a technical aspect.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Creating a Sense of Form: The illusion of depth in a painting is created through the use of tone, but having areas of light and dark which our eyes then interpret as being three-dimensional. In this painting, I think the body of the hummingbird needs some tone to make it less flat.
Nothing complicated, just think what basic shape its body and head are. (The basic shapes being a sphere, cube, cylinder, and pyramid.) Then, having decided, and apply the 'rules' that work for that shape, in this instance a sphere which means darker tones towards the bottom (see Painting Basic Shapes: A Sphere).
From the Painting Guide: Making people use their "wrong" hand is a standard exercise in art workshops, and the results are often surprising because the lack of control means you can't work on auto-pilot nor fuss so much over detail. Ambidextrous is very useful as a painter as you can work with a brush in either hand, or a brush and a cloth.
I admit, I'm not quite sure what to make of a painting of a hummingbird buzzing in someone's ear... there could be all sorts of symbolism here that I'm just not getting. So I'm going to ignore that line of comment and stick to a technical aspect.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Creating a Sense of Form: The illusion of depth in a painting is created through the use of tone, but having areas of light and dark which our eyes then interpret as being three-dimensional. In this painting, I think the body of the hummingbird needs some tone to make it less flat.
Nothing complicated, just think what basic shape its body and head are. (The basic shapes being a sphere, cube, cylinder, and pyramid.) Then, having decided, and apply the 'rules' that work for that shape, in this instance a sphere which means darker tones towards the bottom (see Painting Basic Shapes: A Sphere).