Category: PAINTING TECHNIQUES

Shadbolt Center “Boat in Lake” Concept Overview – COLOR AS TONE – Oct 19, 2017

Getting a little bored with simple realism? As the title suggests, here is a way of seeing and painting called “Color as Tone”, sometimes called ‘arbitrary color’. Actually the hue may be arbitrary, but the tones or tonal value shapes are not.

I am sure that we all, at some stage of our painting development, have seen paintings which impress us with the ‘creative’perhaps adventurous use of color, for example, the Impressionists, but there are many others.  This is a method that many use to achieve this effect. Not the only method – but I like it! I will add a few video demos on this soon.

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COLOR AS TONE 

 

 

Cut Flowers in the House of the Deity

A myth is a truth about our nature, often terrible,  which is easier to bear because it appears to be merely an imaginative tale told about others, far away in time, space or dimension.  I think of this as Mythic Space . I worked on a series of paintings called ‘Back to the Garden’ which took the Adam and Eve myth and played with it to include many ‘adams’ and many ‘eves’, who became flamenco dancers and bodybuilders (the epitomies of display, fierce and pathetic) blossoms that bloom and fall.  I put them in a vase among other cut flowers, iris and narcissus. I drew the ‘vases’, Doric, ionic and Corinthian, in line form and the whole image then seemed to exist in a kind of ‘mythic space’, real and unreal at the same time. After all, we are but ‘cut flowers’ in the House of the Deity. And a painting is a window in that House.

Eraser -ism Aspens Done for Art-Slam Charity Fundraiser Feb 12, 2017

Eraser -ism Aspens done for Artslam Semiahmoo Arts Charity Fundraiser Feb 12, 2017 – Done in 20 minutes each as part of a competition ‘paint-off’. Used white vinyl erasers to scrape out aspens. FUN AND QUICK. Because there were rules to the competition, I could not do a titanium white underpainting as per usual. So I painted direct on the primed canvas. This causes some ‘ghosting’ of the earlier horizontal background layers (not unattractive)  which could not be scraped off thoroughly, as would be the case with a slick titanium white under layer.  I have several video demos on this. Search for “Aspens” in search box.

Still Lake Reflections Watercolor Demo {Nov 2016}

https://vimeo.com/190479147This is a little demonstration I did in Nov 2016.

Still Lake Reflections Watercolor Demo (3 video segments) {Nov 2016}

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