tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post3811758166052530150..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: If at first you don't succeed............Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-2487067248427068802007-04-07T10:53:00.000+00:002007-04-07T10:53:00.000+00:00Thanks for all the comments - lots of good ideas -...Thanks for all the comments - lots of good ideas - I'm going to review them all before trying this one again.<BR/><BR/>Sarah - it's funny you should spot the blue and yellow. I was very impressed with the colour scheme of the dining room - it seemed so daring even now never mind then! I'm sure it had influenced me as I know every time I think about that visit I rerun the whole visit in my head. I so vividly remember my total astonishment at the way he mixed his colour palette of flowers in the garden through my interest in the contents of the house and its decoration, all the way through to the water garden and back and finishing in that massive studio.<BR/><BR/>Maybe we should have a "Bloggers go wild with paint at Giverny" sometime soon?Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-5747501182459041942007-04-07T10:01:00.000+00:002007-04-07T10:01:00.000+00:00Interesting post Katherine, I like the use of blue...Interesting post Katherine, I like the use of blue and yellow, given the subject and place (his dining room!) and the lines, abstract qualities in a figurative painting are facinating. When I am out "collecting" for paintings I sketch, make lots of notes, concentrait very hard on all my senses and photograph. Have done it for years, it is quite tiring but works and with training it is possible to recall a sence of place even after many years. I also think that revisiting a piece will condense your initial reactions, which can make for interesting results.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14193935968877679533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-2757703863154294942007-04-07T08:08:00.000+00:002007-04-07T08:08:00.000+00:00The first painting is an exceptionally lovely piec...The first painting is an exceptionally lovely piece of work, Katherine - if you could just dash off another it probably wouldn't have been the case. IMHO you probably would have been happy with No2 if you hadn't had No1 to compare it with. I'd love to see another pastel version and may I second the vote for a glass of good French red to get you back in the mood.Robyn Sinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01663604160297996421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-71809079556697923422007-04-07T06:43:00.000+00:002007-04-07T06:43:00.000+00:00If I attempt a re-do (which is rare) I change both...If I attempt a re-do (which is rare) I change both the scale and palette of colors. I find this allows the new work to have its own character.Ed Terpeninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08211416674089451891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-63555393195250970372007-04-06T17:56:00.000+00:002007-04-06T17:56:00.000+00:00I suffer from the same malady. Rarely will a re-do...I suffer from the same malady. Rarely will a re-do appear as fresh and well composed as my first efforts.<BR/>Sometimes I resort to projecting, gridding or scanning (my own original work or jpeg or slide) as ways of getting the composition exactly correct, just to eliminate that variable.<BR/>Also, I may need to revisit my value study. Perhaps make a new one, because I get too hung up on choosing the colors, and skip what normally is second-nature when starting a fresh work: value composition.Casey Klahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020906666248399435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-24903402012191253492007-04-06T13:30:00.000+00:002007-04-06T13:30:00.000+00:00First off, kudos for you for trying this. I have l...First off, kudos for you for trying this. I have learned the most from those subjects I have tried to "do over". No two are ever identical. Ask any forger. <BR/>Each one will have its lesson to teach and the finished product is not the only thing realised from this kind of exercise. <BR/>Go for the pastel. But before you do.....have a nice glass of heady French wine...I am sure he would have too! Great blog message, Katherine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-77710736102112311052007-04-06T12:21:00.000+00:002007-04-06T12:21:00.000+00:00I admire both your perseverance and your patience....I admire both your perseverance and your patience. I've never tried to reproduce something, because by the end of working on the original, I'm tired of it. No patience left.<BR/><BR/>Maybe 10 years later it'd come back. Maybe. You're an inspriation. ;)<BR/><BR/>MegAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-48418928984100196832007-04-06T10:56:00.000+00:002007-04-06T10:56:00.000+00:00The thing that strikes me when I look at these two...The thing that strikes me when I look at these two images is that the first one has so much more value contrast. The second is much more in the middle ranges (less light and less dark). I love contrast, so for me, the second one is more bland, less exciting.<BR/><BR/>Those two strong diagonals at the bottom of the first image are missing in the second -- I think this, too, is part of my preference for the first.<BR/><BR/>I've been interested, reading your posts, and some of the writing at places you've sent us, how cerebral a lot of painting/drawing is. How much planning, how much thinking ahead.<BR/><BR/>One reason I play with any art medium is to give my right brain some time to come forward (I program computers as my day job). With my own work, I deliberately avoid thinking about *why* I like this vs. that, and let my right brain choose. Mostly. :-)I need orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16819543886910857718noreply@blogger.com