Uncle Bud's Art Colony

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Yesterday I was showing you my Winsor & Newton pens. I continued to experiment with the pens to see what they would do. This picture is of roses and daisy with baby breath.

By using the colors as paint and dipping in to double color over color I can add depth and shape.

It is abstract in one way and real in another. You see the rose and flowers. Yet you also see the strange shapes and colors.

So dip in and keep your brushes and pens and pencils handy.

Abstract realist and color

7:38 AM

Kathy

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I saw at the art store this set of alcohol based pens and got them. Next I began to experiment with some pictures. I found I could draw a basic shape or picture then start to fill in ( almost like coloring) then add the pen and ink or felt pen.

The Winsor & Newton pen is the same quality as their paint. A high standard and long time company they have some good things out there.

This is a simple design. The bridge and water with the background of trees. Add the banks and grass and 'voila you have a picture.

I like the fact that the pens give a pastel look and by going over what was painted first you can add shadows. Of course this adds depth to your project.

Well keep your pens wet and your pencils dry.

Try New things

7:53 AM

Kathy

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In the old country they have hundreds of castles. We have two in this county. This one is from Ireland My friend Frank Clarke the watercolor guy painted it but I wanted to try to draw it.

Lonely old castles and Abby's remind of friends gone by. Like people in our lives they are still there in our mind but just moving on.

Yesterday we said good by to our "Fellow" at OSU she is moving to a new position in Utah. Doc Jess we will miss you. This is the third one I have gone thru.
I don't adapt well to change. I am trying to but...

Enjoy and keep your pencils sharp and your brushes wet.

Castle and Rocks

7:09 AM

Kathy

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If you travel across the United States you may go through the Rockie Mountains, or in the eastern states the Alleghenies. If you live in Europe you have hundreds of Mountain ranges including the Alps.

This is just a representative of all mountains and the foggy mist rolling in. I enjoy this idea and the mystery of the fog.

As the sun burns off the fog and reveals the mountains hiding in the mist we see the various levels of depth and the depth of field.

So keep your brushes wet and your foggy mountains foggy.

Do Foggy Mountain

5:41 PM

Kathy

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Trees like people are more interesting with a few flaws.

Something with character, or a few bumps and knots is more interesting. People today want the most thin, or the smoothest skin, or flowing hair. But the reality is we all are bumpy.

Van Gogh, Monet, and even Picasso saw the bumps. Bob Ross sees the smooth but also the rough Mountain. The native Americans made the best bowls from huge knots on the old tree called burl's. They would carve and burn them out to make the inside of bowl.

These bowls were hard and lasted even until today. We should take a snapshot from this example.

So be kind to us with a few flaws, and keep your brushes wet.

Ugly is Beautiful

8:10 AM

Kathy

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This was fun to paint but the size is way off. Taller is better. The color is not bad, but there is something neat about the whole picture.

He or she is all ears, must be an African elephant. India or Asian elephants have smaller ears. If I was to repaint this, which I will, I will have a picture or live model. I do believe I need to go to the Zoo.

Color can be correct in a painting yet the other parts are not. So how to hold it together? Practice, Practice, and more Practice.

Study the drawing, layout, and composition.

Keep painting and keep your brushes wet.

Size is everything

7:01 AM

Kathy

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Leonardo said, "Light expands."

But the dark comes forward.
In painting these truths are rules every painter has broken, then fixed.

Painting is the illusion to make a flat or 1-D drawing into a 2-D or 3-D visual. The years have pasted and we just now understand all these things. In the Dark Ages painting was flat. Then in the Renaissance we discovered the shadowing and began to make subjects look 2-D.

Finding light and dark together we see and our eye pulls the light up and out. The dark come toward us and gets bigger, this makes painting look more real.

Keep your brushes wet and leave the light on.