These are my own critiques: The wooden board with the title (yes it's a wooden board) looks terrible. It kind of looks like ham. I admit I was getting hasty around the point I painted that. Also, the trees behind the two foreground trees and Hansel and Gretel are very badly handled. Also, there is an awkward space inside Gretel's name. I decided to leave out the moon, I didn't forget it.
Does it look like night to you?
Again, if you are reading this and there is anything that I should know but obviously don't about painting (basically anything at all), please tell me. I am no good at evaluating art, and for all I know this painting could be... a, uh, bad ..painting.
You know, I'm really starting to miss getting comments... would you comment if I insulted you? What's a guy gotta do to earn some decent comments around here? Huh?
Rather nice.
ReplyDeleteThe best way to make a good painting is to start with a bunch of thumbnails. Try to discover every possible way to make a good layout.
ReplyDeleteComposition is primal. After you have a nice composition, make color sketches to figure out which one looks right, creates the desired atmosphere and makes the painting look fresh and interesting. Technical skills are then required to paint it well.
I don't feel being in the postiton to give advice yet, but there are tons of good books that can teach you pretty much everything you need to know about composition, color and design to get a good start. I recommend books, but there are a couple of websites that are pretty good too.
Maybe this could help: http://painting.about.com/od/paintingforbeginners/Painting_for_Beginners_and_Essential_Painting_KnowHow.htm
Scott Caple's handouts are very very useful:
http://threefingersholdthepen.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-02-07T09%3A31%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7
Good luck with everything!
Sean most of your paintings are adventurous, outgoing, western influenced which is very much like you not that it's a bad thing but can you at least create a more eerie, twisted but obsessing side of you which is very unlike you and dissolve that to something unique and out of this world, I don't know maybe a combination of alien and mythology, an archangel trapped in a call center office, a meteor downsized to a squidball, a more detailed layered stick figure, I mean things that Picasso or Michael Angelo would never dare touch even the most obscure modern anime. I see that in you Sean you have wits and humor as your tool and conspicuously your wide range of art and vocabulary allows you to sense profound elements that most of us cannot. Thank you Sean :D
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