Theres a wonderful delicacy about that willow warbler in stark contrast to the colourful vegetation Tim....beautiful stuff...:t:
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Theres a wonderful delicacy about that willow warbler in stark contrast to the colourful vegetation Tim....beautiful stuff...:t:
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Again, a masterful piece of work - and such a peaceful and familiar scene. The seaweed is beautifully done, and the ducks have perfect shapes and expressions. Always a joy to see your paintings.
I'm trying to allow my drawing to have more emphasis in my colourwork (as in the Sharpie pics), but I want it to sit more naturally with colour than maybe the strong black line of ink does (?). With this in mind I spent a day playing last week and quite liked the way brown conte pastel combined with watercolour - sometimes it smudges into the watercolour and others I keep the colour a distance away from the line and allow the line to stand alone.
Following the play session, I started this large piece of a cock lapwing in kingcups (32"x20") and, convinced there may be mileage in this approach, worked on a similarly constructed piece - Ringer plover (same size). A wee bit more to do here I think . . .
that Lapwing looks very truly successful- the thing about the sharpies (just from my way of looking) is that the line in them is as strong on the lit side and shaded side of the bird, which makes them less fiendishly subtle than this beauty
. . . it's that whole 'edges' thing, isn't it!!!! I love loose, 'edgeless' oils (such as Bill Wray or James Hart Dyke do) and have tried to roughen up in my heavy media painting, but the closest I come is with some of the wetter watercolours which squeeze under the goalie. But line . . . it's where it all starts, well for me anyway, yet while we're seeing the lines, the colours flood the place.The Eternal Conundrum: Line vs. Color, Line vs. Color, Line vs. Color. Well that was my immediate reaction anyway
And who first came to mind as the best at combining the two? Edgar Degas. Perhaps not much help, especially as I think you once told Colleen you weren't that fond of pastels. But still he strikes me as someone who mastered it, though mainly because he used a medium that lends itself so easily to line.
To me the Sharpies, and I had to think of you when I saw a commercial for WB Mason on TV for them last night, have a wonderful sense of immediacy and dynamism. But the dark black lines do sometimes compete a bit with the color. Still to me it seems like a winning combination as is.
These look fine as well though I don't really notice the line as much.