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These beautiful landscape paintings are by the Canadian artist Linda Wilder
Wooded Mystery
Glitter Within
The Melt
Highway Peek
Autumn’s Kiss
Peek A View
Glacier Lake
Rocky Mountain Bow
Athabasca Rocks
Banff Fir
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Posted on Flickr by Harmaly
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something that’s staring you in your face. For the past two years I’ve been trying to draw photo realistic but I could never get it. But for the longest time it escaped me why that was. Only a few weeks ago it finally dawned on me.
I don’t have any pictures on my walls because they bore me. That seems to be one of the drawbacks of having a photographic memory. Within a few days a picture on the wall starts to feel like the rerun of the rerun of a show I didn’t want to see to begin with.
So why did I ever think that I could be interested in spending weeks creating an image of something I’ve seen in real life?
from a picture I was planning to copy. This drawing was more fun to do then most of the drawing I’ve done so far. But I still didn’t feel satisfied.
While doing this drawing I realized that I’m actual not interested in shapes. I’m far more interested in playing with colors.
So for my next drawing I will be doing something that’s the opposite from this one.
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This drawing is going to be a copy of this landscape painting by Francesco De Iure.
Just like with the last drawing I started out thinking I’d concentrate more on the colors then on the shapes.
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But I found very quickly that wouldn’t work with this drawing. Clearly the relation between the tree in the foreground and the mountains in the background is very important.
So I started again this time starting with a sketch of the tree and it’s surrounding.
I used the lightest hue of gray I have in my color box. Even then I was a little scared it would show up in the scan. But luckily it didn’t. Although it does make for a rather strange picture.
Just like with the last drawing I came across the problem of having to use colors I don’t have in my drawing box. But this time I’ve found a better solution. Instead of just layering a few colors on top of each other I tried blending them. That worked out much better. The color I got looked much more like the original.
It feels a bit strange to start with the light background and then work my way to the foreground. Especially since I’m not really sure how I’m going to draw the tree.
This painting looks a lot like the Bob Ross painting you used to see some years ago. I’ve always been wondering how to imitate the cutting colors with a knife using a pencil.
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It took me a while to figure out why I’ve never seen this picture in real life. The Netherlands lies below the level of the sea. For that reason every body of water is enclosed with dikes. Which means that if you look at the sun setting in a lake you’ll see a dike and a few tree tops in the distance. Never tops of houses as you see on the left site of this picture.
For my first attempt at copying a painting I chose Day 293, Morning sun, pastel, A4 by Rita Pogo.
About half way through the drawing I decide to concentrate more on the colors then on the shapes.
I can draw very good copy of objects. I done so in the past. The problem is that I loose myself in the detail and forget about the colors.
I figure that if I can get the colors right the shapes will take care of them self.
This drawing seems much lighter then the original. I’ve been thinking about making it darker, but I didn’t.
For one thing because I’m not completely sure about how to make it darking without changing the colors. And also because I think this should be a light colored picture.A sunset usually has a lot of bright colors.
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It seems so obvious now that I’ve solved it but ever since I started drawing I’ve been wondering how to get rid of the white. Doesn’t matter how many details you draw there will always be a part of the picture without details and that part will be white.
The painting I’m copying has no white in it. But what do I draw after I’ve drawn the sun, the clouds and the water?
This afternoon it finally hit me.
I should start out with a background color. Either the lightest color there is in the picture or a part of the picture. In this drawing I’m doing that with the sea (lower part of the drawing, isn’t jet there). Or I use a color that I can mix to get the colors I need.
In the upper part of the drawing I use the lightest pink I have in my drawing box. That color isn’t actually in the picture but I can mix it to get the dark purple parts of the sky and the dark gray/blue clouds.
Using a background color has one other purpose. Pencil colors are usually far more interesting when you get them by mixing a few colors then by just using the colors in the box.
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Paintings by Linda, LoveItaly and John Taylor. (And a few flowers by Dubonnet.)
Some paintings just make you happy. They don’t have to be that good. Don’t even have to have a very interesting subject matter. But they do have something bright and sparkling.
Today I have three Flickr sets with just that quality:
Linda paints Gods creation
Linda is trying to “reflect the beauty of Gods creation in her work”. She indeed paints a lovely picture of her world. She paints mostly cityscapes and paintings of her cats.
Hummingbird by Linda
Birds by LoveItaly
On any given day LoveItaly sees 25 varieties of birds and she loves to paint them.
In this set you’ll find some 30 watercolors of different birds painted with a light touch and almost opaque colors.
John Taylors oils and pastels
After his retirement John Taylor took up painting as a way of occupying himself. He really likes the bright colours of garden scenes, water reflections and effects of light and shade. He paints a lot of landscapes like this beautiful pond with a swan.
Swan by John Taylor
Flowers by Dubonnet
While looking for nice paintings this morning I came across this beautiful but small set of flowers on flickr.
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Abstract paintings by Caleb Miles and Wendi Love and painting nature by Dalya Bersano.
Caleb Miles’ modern art
Caleb Miles takes his interest in color to a whole new level. In his abstract paintings he doesn’t even try to draw a shape. And rightly so. His collection of modern art contains some very nice paintings.
Wendi Love digital abstracts
Wendi Love also plays with color. But instead of using a paintbrush she creates her abstracts with light. With a lot of mosaic like shapes. But still the color is more important then the shape.
IIIII by Wendi Love
Dalya Bersano oil paintings
In Dalya Bersano’s oil paintings color also plays a very important role. But contrary to the last two artist Dalya’s paintings are far from abstract. Most of her paintings are pieces of nature. Most of the color is in the background of paintings.
But the background is so big that it draws attention to it self.
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Abstracts and portraits by Rebeca Blázquez Jover, oil paintings by Joe Kresoja and landscapes by Ronald Menti.
Pintura painting
This little set of paintings by RebecA Blázquez Jover is an interesting mix of abstracts and portraits. Very colorful.
Autorretrato II by RebecA Jover
Oil paintings by Joe Kresoja
I’m tempted to call this set a bunch of women. Although Joe Kresoja does paint some other subjects a large part of his paintings are of (partly nude) women.
Usually I’m not a big fan of this kind of work. I can’t quite put my finger on why but I do like this set of oil paintings.
Pittore d’arte Ronald Menti
Looking at this small set of paintings by Ronald Menti it seams as though something is wrong with them. Although it are very nice paintings they seem to big. It’s like the artist tried to put everything into one frame.
Painting removed by request of the artist.
update: After I remove his painting the artist allowed me to put it back.
I won’t.
I don’t want to play this kind of games. Either you allow me to show your work, or you don’t. But I won’t be deleting and then again adding pictures to my blog.
Castello di Brendola by Ronald Menti
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