there is something wonderful in the marks you make, they seem so rough but each one adds so much to the image. and i also like the "unpolished" look your work has. this is what i would like mine to look like if i could do anything (i have been too busy with photographs to do any drawing ... also i need to get a few pastels and the nearest art shop is a long way away. but maybe the newsagent will have some?? i will look tomorrow when i go to get the paper).
The newsagents may have some pastels for kids and that's fine, as long as they are not "wax" colours (very light on pigment). Any "oil" ones can be greatly helped with just a tiny touch of turpentine, any sort. Have fun!!
Hello Alicia. It's true ..the lanscape looks very calm but in the second post we find that the author is Hitler... the same author of Poland invasion. If you see the links in the post you can understand all the story.
well, Adam, if we take the bottom drawing here, of the guy (Eugene) in his very best, yellow jacket, the light seems "real" because I made a previous agreement with my self only to use that one yellowish earth colour in the whole image, so it keeps turning up everywhere, like daylight filtered through a slightly yellowed curtain would, all over. In reality, I assure You, the gold-rim glasses had an entirely different hue. I just let the sharp line/ fuzzy surface difference carry that load. Then, knowing my friend Eugene's impatient nature, i deliberately choose a very roughly primed paper (I use pigments sold for colouring concrete for that. I only came across them once and they were so cheap I've got four pounds - only to find out they were too grainy to paint with) to let the roughness of the paper take on the role of his weathered appearance. This gave me, as a bonus, the very convincing texture of the wall - which is nothing like the real background was (flimsy). So, to sum it up, the "reality" is pure conjecture, it consist of one simple equation: the limited number of components (three colours only + white, and the background standing in for "black") = equals more or less the general number of impressions an observant viewer takes in at a first, and possibly second glance. That's all, and it has very little to do with the actual appearance of the scene. It's just that this being in a cathegory of views known to every human - an older guy not that happy about this situation being imposed on him - calls for all sorts of sympathy and warmth. In my defence I can only swear I gave him all the cognac he wanted.
thanks so much for that very clear explanation of "cheating"! now that I look at it with that fresh information, you have done such a wonderful work, it is quite amazing!
I like this style very much, as I am sure you guess!
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hi alicja
i love both of these works!
there is something wonderful in the marks you make, they seem so rough but each one adds so much to the image. and i also like the "unpolished" look your work has. this is what i would like mine to look like if i could do anything (i have been too busy with photographs to do any drawing ... also i need to get a few pastels and the nearest art shop is a long way away. but maybe the newsagent will have some?? i will look tomorrow when i go to get the paper).
everything you do is so real!
best wishes
adam
Dear Adam
I cheat.
The newsagents may have some pastels for kids and that's fine, as long as they are not "wax" colours (very light on pigment). Any "oil" ones can be greatly helped with just a tiny touch of turpentine, any sort. Have fun!!
Hello Alicia.
It's true ..the lanscape looks very calm but in the second post we find that the author is Hitler... the same author of Poland invasion.
If you see the links in the post you can understand all the story.
After my comment i've been looking at your "touchism".
I'll come back.
alicja
you cheat? what does this mean?
adam
well, Adam, if we take the bottom drawing here, of the guy (Eugene) in his very best, yellow jacket, the light seems "real" because I made a previous agreement with my self only to use that one yellowish earth colour in the whole image, so it keeps turning up everywhere, like daylight filtered through a slightly yellowed curtain would, all over. In reality, I assure You, the gold-rim glasses had an entirely different hue. I just let the sharp line/ fuzzy surface difference carry that load. Then, knowing my friend Eugene's impatient nature, i deliberately choose a very roughly primed paper (I use pigments sold for colouring concrete for that. I only came across them once and they were so cheap I've got four pounds - only to find out they were too grainy to paint with) to let the roughness of the paper take on the role of his weathered appearance. This gave me, as a bonus, the very convincing texture of the wall - which is nothing like the real background was (flimsy). So, to sum it up, the "reality" is pure conjecture, it consist of one simple equation: the limited number of components (three colours only + white, and the background standing in for "black") = equals more or less the general number of impressions an observant viewer takes in at a first, and possibly second glance. That's all, and it has very little to do with the actual appearance of the scene. It's just that this being in a cathegory of views known to every human - an older guy not that happy about this situation being imposed on him - calls for all sorts of sympathy and warmth. In my defence I can only swear I gave him all the cognac he wanted.
Hello Merdinhas
nice to see You here, I only wish I could understand any of the Portuguese! You are very, very welcome!
alicja
thanks so much for that very clear explanation of "cheating"! now that I look at it with that fresh information, you have done such a wonderful work, it is quite amazing!
I like this style very much, as I am sure you guess!
adam
Adam
he he
You see right thru me
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