tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35145936.post1422423118913988061..comments2024-01-23T18:18:54.450-08:00Comments on Ron Guthrie Art: Gaviota BluffsRon Guthriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09173474868558565132noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35145936.post-70531903885801439522010-01-29T20:50:58.988-08:002010-01-29T20:50:58.988-08:00Hi Marian,
I want to do the subject with good r...Hi Marian,<br /> I want to do the subject with good results but I'm not all that confident with seascapes right now. I remember starting out with landscapes and the early ones were learning trees, bushes, depth. Seascapes present a whole new set of things to be learned. <br /><br />Maybe when you're not comfortable with something you just tend to create your own barriers that have to be eventually chipped away. It's that point in painting that is very frustrating. It's very easy to just say "no, I'll go back to my comfort zone". I'm going to try and balance between landscapes and seascapes, or at least Marine Art, for a while and see if things start to happen. I know one thing...you learn nothing by stopping.<br />RonRon Guthriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09173474868558565132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35145936.post-354432583467667972010-01-29T16:16:24.460-08:002010-01-29T16:16:24.460-08:00Another interesting and informative post!!... I l...Another interesting and informative post!!... I like Sue's comments too.<br /><br />I was painting rocks and the sea today and found that too is difficult... Think I'll go back and re-read your post... maybe some of the info will sink in....Marian Fortunatihttp://www.marianfortunati.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35145936.post-20864058171596649462010-01-28T23:30:40.052-08:002010-01-28T23:30:40.052-08:00Hi Carolyn - Nice to see you in here young lady. ...<b>Hi Carolyn</b> - Nice to see you in here young lady. Glad you like the WIP or Demo...I've always liked seeing those. Hey, look up John Budicin's website...he has a great demo on one of his plein air paintings there.<br />http://www.johnbudicin.com/field_studies.htm<br /><br />H<b>i Sue</b> - Same way here....wait a couple of weeks and it's like someone turned a light on, hahaha. It really does help to view your work and do it with a skeptics eye...I don't know what you would call that that makes your brain see differently a few days later. Would be nice to be able to adjust it though, hahaha. <br /><br />I think volumes of books could be written on composition. There is a good video on it by <b>Ian Roberts</b> called <i>"Mastering Composition"</i>. Well worth looking into. He basically shows you some very simple compositional "standards" for painting...the "S", "L" or fulcrum...the Mass etc. Then he shows good examples of them. If you keep to just the few he shows you could do an awful lot of paintings with correct comps.<br />RonRon Guthriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09173474868558565132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35145936.post-44915310024815787072010-01-28T19:06:34.409-08:002010-01-28T19:06:34.409-08:00Same here. I really enjoyed reading about the s...Same here. I really enjoyed reading about the stages this painting went through--how and why. I agree about the need to think and understand why some things work and others don't. I almost always love my paintings right after I finish them. After looking at them and thinking about them for a couple of days, though, I can see the flaws. Then it's a matter of trying to figure out why something didn't work, if it can be improved, and how to do that. I know some artists think that this sort of intellectual analysis is over-rated, but I think it's truly improved my technique and continues to do that. Lately, I'm trying to figure out why various compositions work. I just find paintings and photos I enjoy and try to understand why that's the case. And of course if someone will *tell* you why they do things a certain way, you can really harvest some great Ah-Hah! moments.<br /><br />SueSuetoisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35145936.post-84596539489811327242010-01-28T18:27:06.588-08:002010-01-28T18:27:06.588-08:00Thank you so much for posting your work-in-progres...Thank you so much for posting your work-in-progress. I really appreciate it, and I learn a lot from it. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com