These two little paintings based on the drawings got a little too wet, especially the bottom one. But I'm learning to live with it!
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(5x7)Which brings me to one of my favorite poems from the collection What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop:
Learn to live
with yourself
most
never do
Then learn to live
with one another
even fewer
manage this
Then--if you ever
live long enough--
learn to live
with everything else.
-- by Cid Corman
What wise words, Laura! And what fabulous paintings! You are so good at doing all the things one is supposed to do--the value studies/sketches, etc. I admire that so much about you. And you do it so successfully. I love these two--and I kind of like that wet second one! It's less "controlled," but so loose and wet and lovely.
ReplyDeleteLaura, your paintings are so fresh and inspiring! I am so flattered and honored that you would want one of my prints!
ReplyDeleteYour suggestions about tone studies are spot on. Plus I enjoyed the poem because I think it's so true that we we relate to others well only after we learn to live with our selves.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder about tone studies.... I needed that!
ReplyDeleteGood words! And you have captured the returning light beautifully!
ReplyDeleteMake value study first. Make value study first. I'm going to make that my mantra. It really does help. I particularly like the first painting.
ReplyDeleteThe inner glow that wall in the second painting developed from being "a little too wet" looks (to me) like light reflected up from the sunlit grass. Hope you remember how you achieved that next time you want to bouce some light onto a shadow.
ReplyDeleteNicely said with a beautiful picture... :)
ReplyDeleteI particularly like the first one. As you say, you have managed to see shapes more than detail. The colors are more defined in the first painting, which gives it more vibrancy. Love the subject.
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Oh I love these! They just glow with light! Marva
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