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Author: Phyllis_Russell_Franklin, Contributing Editor
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| After that first painting session, all of us were ready to prop our feet up and relax. We all had brought lots of food and snacks to have for the first night.
Each evening we would gather around all of our painting and have a critque session. This was one of the highlights of the entire conference and I think we all learned a great deal by discussing each painting. Just to show you how it went, here is my painting of the lone palm tree and what was said about it. Good points 1. It looks like a palm tree. 2. I can tell you are making a lot of progress with your painting. You are keeping your paint much cleaner. |
 | Areas to Improve
1. Color has to be balanced to be effective, working on getting more contrast in your values will help you a lot. 2. Brush work is very important. Lay your colors down and don't fiddle with them so much. 3. Watch your colors and spread them around your painting. Trees are more than just green. 4. I can tell you are making a lot of progress with your painting, but I'm not convinced you have captured the real water. Water isn't always blue, it takes it's cue from what's around it, under it, and above it. That water sure is blue. Where did that come from. Slowing down, stepping back and really observing will give you the clues you need to paint that water and make it convincing. |
 | Well, don't laugh, I thought I was really doing good to get what I was calling "the bones" layed in. Later at the critique session everyone had lots to tell me that would help with the next attempt. Here are a few words from that critique session.
When you first see the scene that you want to paint, remember to first just block in your basic shapes. Go for the light shapes and the dark shapes. Don't go for detail, and don't just paint the limbs on the trees. Block in your tree leaves just using dark shapes and then you can come back and refine to show hints of limbs and make your value changes for your leaves. Block in first. Use a rag or use your brush, but don't fiddle with details. Go for the big picture and keep it simple. |
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