Taronites

Knacki wrote:Me, I like this landscape very much.
You see, if you would have tried to do the clouds more 3D, you probably would have destroyed the fresh atmosphere.
Something I tend to do very often - too often.

The art in art is to know where to stop.
For aquarelle, this has a very special meaning.
The inner view before you start is very important. The process itself, when it's about something loose and live, is often very short.

Me, I almost always start in verve something, because I want to escape from other duties
That means, I don't plan.
That means - a lot of results are crap.
But the joy is always endless

The strongest part in verve is, that it is almost always giving you something. A momentum of satisfaction and pride.
Priceless!

Taron wrote:Once upon a time I saw a documentary about Rembrandt and common methods at his time. I found that INCREDIBLY inspiring, because it so quickly gets you into a specific mood spectrum and you can focus on lighting and substances with lesser complication to colors. The "trick" was to base (fill) the canvas with your fundamental color, likely dark, then work out the light design with brighter colors of around that same hue, so to say, and work your way forward that way. It maintains beautiful coherence and just allows you to get lost in your painting, in your subjects, in the substances and the atmosphere. The whole concept of building up the painting also helps to maintain focus on the whole, rather than getting lost in a detail before everything comes together, while it always almost demands to be attractive the whole way through, you know. I find that exciting!