Saturday, June 23, 2007

Waterfall type image

This isn't what I'd call a completed work of art in a pictoral sense, but it is complete compositionally. It's sort of a bit of an abstract image of a waterfall or something similar to a waterfall where you have a stream of colors flooding down the middle of a composition. This was more or less just a doodle. I like doing landscape paintings a lot, and somehow manage to get waterfalls in them on occassion. I mess with trying to figure out how best to depect that and still be painterly and sort of realistic but make the water sort of look alive as it's moving downwards... My past attempts at that have been somewhat successful when using pointilism type techniqes, but it's something that still needs a lot of conceptual work and work in getting control on how to get brushstroke placement and things all to work together cohesively... this little doodle was just a quick sketch in mspaint while on break at work, and I'll probably do more doodles like this or paintings in this arena in the near future since it's a complex visual puzzle to put together that is super simple yet can be very complex to deal with as you are trying to figure out how it all fits in together and works, and does what you want it to do for a viewer... all of that's probably not too apparent in this little sketch, but maybe a bit of it is?...



just another 5x7 doodle


just another 5x7 doodle


just another 5x7 doodle

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