Wings Over Winecountry, Colleen's place (1 Viewer)

[colleenc]

thanks Tim, someday hope to bring my bird art up to this level too.

and now for something completely different, this is an abstract I started from a horse drawing I did, that evolved to a wave and now my idea of and egret in flight:-O After 6 years of solid realism my roots are showing here...it's great to really let loose and let the forms, surface and medium out of the "rules" of illusion and just let the formal elements play...my abstract work always starts from some real thing...then I let it go and play in the painting plane

pastel( yes really, want to see how it can be used so really pushing it with water, alcohol( on the painting not in the painter) and fixative, sifting it onto the surface etc. Until it became about egrets I wasn't going to post it, but if you want to see the evolution use this link

BTW still evolving this....and cant get the colors right, its more shades than the camera sees.

 

[username]

Think i'm going to enjoy this....

I will be interested to see how this abstract progresses....until the colours seem 'right' in your eye's i guess Colleen....:t:

 

[colleenc]

they are right in my eye in real life, just the camera is missing about 25% of the color shifts. so it looks flatter than it is.....turning back into a landscape now.:-O

 

[halftwo]

Immediately thought of the just-rising sun, seen through lying mists just disturbed by a zephyr to swirl...lovely.

 

[colleenc]

Good I hope it is evocative for each person indivdually, and that image you mention halftwo is even more so now as it really has landscape feel...almost done now

still the flight of the egret to me...has in it all the places I've seen them and all the beautiful shapes against the sky and land in flight. and a movement .....turned it sidewise and let some chance drips and marks become landscape, pulling in reflections on "water" a lot of this you can't see, in this the blues are pretty good but that orange is not as strong and opaque as the photo makes it.

still have to balance the composition

 

[timwootton]

. . . and as a radiating pool of sliced reflection caused by a droplet of water from an egret's foot. Like.

 

[Birdspot]

Just catching up - this forum moves very quickly, no? Now I am trying to shake a newly found fear of house cats, which I can thank you for It's a lovely little painting - the point of view is perfect.

 

[nickderry]

trying hard to catch up on so many threads - the cat had me jumping back from the screen, and this "ripple" has me staring watching it "move".

 

[solitaryVSong]

Just catching up - this forum moves very quickly, no? Now I am trying to shake a newly found fear of house cats, which I can thank you for

I think that was my first take as well. Maybe out four innocents aren't quite as innocent as they seem. Not soon after I commented on this pastel our youngest cat caught a spider. I'm sure this painting came to mind in the spider's eyes.

 

[colleenc]

Just wondering where you were Nick....always miss you and your work when you run off for a whlie

funny how Tuddy seems to affect people....being a cat person myself, I know this look, and as the book Tiger in the House, says it a cat is always a part wild animal somehow, unlike our dogs....Hope it's not too scary for my client.

latest, getting close now...best color I've gotten but several blues missing which makes it look flatter than it is...have to think about lower right corner upper left and tweaking a few edges here and there and backing off a bit on the "landscape" but very close now.

 

[username]

Just knew i was going to enjoy this one....tis a great ride....!!

I will be interested to see your final destination with this piece Colleen....[i am still parked at post 1205...my favorite...so far]...!

It is so fascinating to me how different folk react to various color and form...and indeed 'why' they do......[i'd better shut up now...i fear a 'woffle' coming on]....:smoke:

Let the images speak for themselves.....:t: [and as you are a fellow cat lover...here's another icon..:cat:]....

 

[colleenc]

oh dear that's long gone and will never be seen again:eek!:

.....this started off from a horse sketch I did, evolved into a wave( grew up on the beaches in SoCal so it's in my blood) and finally to flight, if anyone is interested you can go here and see the evolution from the very first.

 

[username]

oh dear that's long gone and will never be seen again:eek!:

.....this started off from a horse sketch I did, evolved into a wave( grew up on the beaches in SoCal so it's in my blood) and finally to flight, if anyone is interested you can go here and see the evolution from the very first.

As long as it's on my screen it's not gone...no worries....

Viva agents of evolution.....morph away....!

 

[colleenc]

yes, guess it's like I'm a human photoshop filter app...

 

[username]

yes, guess it's like I'm a human photoshop filter app...

Tis all 'filters' Colleen....

Looking forward to the next version...:t: Great stuff......!

 

[Woody]

That's a nice puddy tat Colleen, the depth in the pic is particularly striking. Fascinating to watch the development of the 'egrettiness' too.

Mike

 

[colleenc]

Ok I'm calling Flight of the Egret done...just cannot get a good photo no matter what I do, there is more depth than shows here really a sense of deeper space and form you cant see here....but its as good as I can get it.

I go nearly every night to see the egret evening commute. so I expect there will me more paintings eventually but not abstract like this.

 

[nickderry]

Oh Colleen, it's so beautiful! A hazy spiral of calming light slipping through almost unseen right-angled barriers. It moves in every way possible.

 

[colleenc]

Thank you so much Nick, I think you really get it....that makes the work very worth while....

 

[solitaryVSong]

Turned out very well I think. I've not commented earlier because I just wasn't sure about it. But I think your last changes really brought it together.