There are some days when I feel like I’m capable of really intuitively painting something that’s light, loose, and easy. Other days, I really do feel like I’m “pain”-ting. Everything I’ll attempt will feel like it results in disaster and mud.
Here and there, I’ll sketch things outdoors in our yard, and while those surroundings are lovely, the results of my efforts are definitely not. I don’t get depressed by that, though, because I tell myself that it’s all practice anyway: trying to improve and learn more about the process.
I’ll ask myself how I could have approached that sketch differently if I were to try it again, to achieve a different result. I realize I have to keep plodding along! Practice, practice, practice, like any other endeavor.
“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.” (-William Inge)
10 comments:
Hello! I'm back in the old swing of blogging! Got any tea? I must stay for a chat. What have I missed? ;)
Love the orange flowers in your first painting!
Well it doesn't look like you had any problems with these paintings.
But I hear it from eveyone who paints especially those who do over the top work that not every painting is going to work out right. I too feel that Pain in Painting. :)
Oh and YES that IS the sound our Towhee makes. Thank you .. I have been trying to put it into words and you said it. SWEEEEET..
These all look beautiful Sue.
You were definitely in the "flow"
Yes the pain in painting..I know it too well but when it flows there's nothing like it is there.
Wayne Thiebaut says keep drawing until you get it.
I try to maintain that attitude, but somewhere deep down a little voice keeps asking "When?"
"Keep drawing until you get it..." I love that! Good quote.
LOL--Jeanette, I hear you!
These all just seem to flow so beautifully - no pain shows through at all. It's funny, you use the word 'plodding' but these painting seem so beautifully effortless. I love them all - but hose poppies in the last one are absolutely breathtaking - so loose and yet they have so much depth. I'm in awe.
You're very generous, Casey! Thank you!
Thanks for your kind comment on my post. You can see more of my sketchbook work on the side slides when I did two months of a drawing a day with a few people. You can go back to Oct 10 in my blogs for a two parter on my old sketchbook work. I have lots of birds in my older blogs too. :)
Oh what a nice post, and oh yes, how we know the pain ting thing.
Your paintings here are beautiful, so light and delicate, I love the colours! And I know that it does not always comes as easy as it looks:)
But these are wonderful
Andrea
Thanks, Cris and Andrea. You all have such talent and your encouragement is greatly appreciated! Cris, I'll look forward to browsing through your art! Thanks!! Andrea, you have the lightest touch and I love your work.
Post a Comment