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I forget it’s name exactly but it is some sort of visual distortion or reconfiguration tool that takes original images and reduces them down to brushstrokes if you select a specific setting and actually does quite a bit more than that and it almost surreal or hyper stylized format once you start tweaking all of the other options.
The above image is an example of my friend did of half Moon Bay which if done in oil paint would probably come out fairly well.
In the effort to add one more work on to the newest easel I am wondering which Japanese master to study.
Or should it be David Alfaro Sequiros?
Orozco?
Or Victor Horta?
David Alfaro Sequiros, “The Elements” 1425 px x 1789 px
David Alfaro Sequiros “Peasant Mother”, 1286 px x 1645 px
Jose Clemete Orozco, “The Subway” 2000 px x 1444 px
So I decided to get a piece of oil work started no matter what, using any surface I could get my hands on so I grabbed a piece that didn’t even have it re-stretch completed and got a team player of transparent maroon oxide onto it which looks pretty bad ass actually.
The 2 inch brush that I used was also perfect and I will be definitely ordering more of those.
It went on like butter and covered the whole surface perfectly and very fast and very even.
Four years before I was being a dumbass where my largest brush was still only a quarter inch or half inch flat and I said they’re trying to cover an entire canvas with it so at least this one commercial brand is working really really well and it’s not a fine art brand otherwise it would probably cost three times the amount.
I might not even do the Picasso but instead just work with the oils on various surfaces to explore what’s possible for the current South Loop painting. There’s quite a few deep earth tones.
Pablo Picasso Cubist Painting Ma Jolie
Had to do a lot more blocking in with the white e.g. the titanium white which is now running low and needs to be found and sourced within Thailand.
I will try to use the http://Nanapun.net resource. Amazon is not shipping the item here due to one of the sellers not being set up to do international so I will have to wait until they run out and re-stock.
I was however able to take out a bunch of colors and test them and get up to color mixing table to good shape instead of running the painting by applying a color at random without any kind of back painting.
It’s taking way longer but is a better way to proceed.
I also added some entertainment in the form of the big screen TV that was just sitting on the floor for months and it has been a boon to productivity to have old-school boxing matches and classic movies running in the background which is allowed me to truly concentrate for hours on end instead of debris first stops that I was doing before.
Putting more titanium white down now to establish light and dark areas as well as continue to cover up of the initial marker lines which turned out to be a pretty big mistake but that’s why I started on this piece as a way to get back into technical readiness.
I did a lot of line work over a week or two of the painting being in the drawing area. I finally burned out and decided to swap it back to the painting room and get some reference lines on it so I could suss what’s really going on overall.
Are used to pretty cheap brush to get these lines in and got some balance as far as being able to get straighter and I can see what’s missing now or three or four key areas that I can start rendering again.
In the meantime I have been able to paint over a lot of the lines that need to be there anymore and these are just mistakes that would happen when you’ve been out of the game for 10 years but are somewhat recoverable.
It was great to have such a large piece right where I needed it next to my normal desk job and in a room where the kids get a lot of drawing done as well which is discussed in a previous post regarding pens and pencils for drawing, mechanical and artistic / composition uses.
Bought more paints and I definitely need more brushes and I’m noticing that for some reason the canvas is sagging and I’m unsure as to the root cause.
I’m used to working with a slightly thinner canvas in some cases and certainly when I do the priming there was enough shrinkage to keep things tight.
In the meantime I have developed a number of workarounds To solve the issues of a lack of Pinewood here as a fix for the twisty hardwood. Panels are the best possible option unless there’s going to be a decay issue between the canvas and panel chemicals.
There is supposedly a victor Hugo reference as there is a book by the same name and I even used to own this book and it was quite an old hard cover but I ended up having to leave it behind somewhere.
It’s time to re-book it on the Waze is this painting which Albert Pinkham Ryder did.
The Lover’s Boat, about 1881, Albert Pinkham Ryder
Flying Dutchman (1887) Oil on Canvas by Albert Pinkham Ryder
I had a book on this guy I don’t early age but I’m only just now checking back in to his work and this seems like a very compelling portrait format painting to execute and even looks like it’s made in acrylic.
I’m looking at this video of Ed Paschke in the studio.
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He’s working on the famous Mona Lisa.
But he’s got it on the ground and it’s pretty much the same height as him and looks to be about 6 feet wide not even seven.
It could be a little bit wider and noticed also like a 6 x 5.5.
It’s impressive how simple he has it and I can also see all of the source materials on the corkboard’s which I have been ramping up my own self. It goes to show even 4 to 6 inches off the floor is good enough although I can’t tell what’s in back of this thing it looks pretty stable.
So then there’s the actual process which takes place by isolating an image and getting it on to the open projector in pure black and white only no color at all.
Here’s looking at you kid.
Using little finger as a point balance and ranging tool.
He also holds the source image in his hand the whole way through.
And he only put it down when he grabbed a tube of pain and when he got the paint he got it directly from the tube they never let it hit the pallet so this must be the freshest most pure version of the color and saves a lot of bullshit screwing around with a pallet and chemicals because he’s painting clearly from the tube likely from high-quality product.
Who is the paint on pure over another set of wash so basically it’s black and white and multiple other colors by the time the purple comes over the orange or the orange yellow.
He even thins it more by using his fingertip to spread it and apply.
This last image could be used as an homage painting. Due to it what he would’ve done to an image of this type.
