I made the wall! Had a bit of a mental struggle, because I didn't really want to continue this piece, since I am not excited about it at all. I finished the wall, but I don't think that I'm going to keep it completely green. I will most definitely either go over it with white brownish yellow ocherish so that it becomes more cohesive, otherwise the green will not complement the colors of the flowers. I'm worried about what the sky color will be, but it will most likely be a very warm grey, and above the wall I am planning to have something of a cafe that complements the flowers.
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I don't love the road :(. It's too chunky and not as "smooth" as I wanted it to seem. I think I applied too much paint, because although it looks like a road, it isn't nearly as nice as I wanted it to look. Also, it is less warm than I intended for the colors to be, and I think I took advantage of shadows to the side, highlight in the middle. Personally, it looks very middle school because the craftsmen-ship isn't great, but I'll fix it next time.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF6EluMNR14
- Richter working on a piece using huge canvases and tools to apply paint. Reaction: I really love Richter's style of painting! His use of palette knife in some of his earlier pieces such as the park piece is the type of abstract work that I want to possibly do in order to create scenes. The feeling that his color schemes give off that may even confuse the viewer is quite powerful. In his apple piece, he purposefully blurred the piece in order show that an artist can never show the full truth of a subject in a work of art. This concept resonates with me, because when I create works with palette knife, I purposefully make them slightly abstract because a realistic painting will never truly show the entire emotion and perfect replica of the scene itself. However, when working with textures, the artist can add their own twist to a subject which is what Gerard Richter did here. His artistic process of standing up and applying paint is AWESOME. It's amazing how a painting comes together if you just see the final piece. His use of wooden slabs is quite interesting and unique to his artistic process. Although he doesn't explicably say it, his experiences in WW2 have clearly influenced his works because of their *vibe*, and I appreciate the overall feeling of his works. I think that applying one's own emotion into artistic pieces is vital to its content and adds an artist's mark on any piece made. I've put paint on the canvas! I've envisioned something along the lines of a street with flowers. I was constantly walking on streets in Switzerland which had flowers on every street, along the shops, ivy along the walls, and the antique and dainty feel of the scene is what I want to capture. I'm quite worried about this piece since I don't exactly have a reference picture, just a few ideas in my head and a goal of a style that I want to achieve. This piece began as a planned abstract piece, where I would use warm greys in the background and explore color using warm and saturated colors splayed across a line splitting the canvas. However, I want to use those same colors to illustrate flowers in baskets along the wall near a dust/stone road. I'm intrigued at how this piece may turn out, and I hope that it turns out slightly similiar to my vision, and decently aesthetic :( :).
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