When you try to paint without working out your values.
When you're in a hurry to paint, and deep down you know before you even start that it's going to go to shit.
Yesterday, I was obsessed with one of my photos that I absolutely had to paint, so in the rush and excitement of producing it, I rushed headlong into it. I tried to reproduce the photo, just like that, on instinct.
I took the time to look at the work, it wasn’t convincing, I didn’t study it beforehand, I just reproduced the colors I saw.
It doesn’t work.
It doesn’t work because it’s not my style, I like to distort reality, that’s why I paint, to inject colors I’m not used to seeing.
I cut out my paper and start again, still without drawing a sketch or defining my values, I just say to myself, come on, let’s do it with blue shades, it’ll work.
It still doesn’t work for me, maybe there’s some emotion in it, but I don’t like it. I let the night pass and this morning, I decided to give this photo another chance.
This time, I worked on the photo’s contrasts, I drew a very quick sketch, I defined my values, and I took the time to choose the palette I was going to use.
Finally! That’s it, that’s where I wanted to go, to tell the story of multiracial people with a choice of bright colors!
It was only after the third attempt that I was able to go further with my proposal,
I defined my work before I even picked up an oil pastel in my hand, and repetition is the key to success.
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