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Post Critique
My paintings lined up for help |
My critique group met today for our monthly critique, lead by our fearless leader, Tim Horn. The best part of the whole thing is to see his paintings at the end. Here are photos of a couple of them.
I love the simplicity of that barn, and check out his interior - those red velvet curtains glow in that sunlight streaming through the window.
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| Tim's painting of a barn in Sonoma |
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| Tim's painting of his green velvet chair in his studio |
Fortunately for us, Tim's paintings come last. I went first to get it all over with. I put up some of my recent landscapes and compared them to the Copy-cat paintings I've done. I was ready to get all the answers. "I want to paint this way", pointing to the Copy-cats. "What's the deal? Why do my landscapes all seem to look alike, and not like how I want them to look?" Big questions, but he is a professional, after all. Here's what I got: I need to intensify the saturation of the colors in the foreground - mine are too chalky (a common mistake) and work on composition. From now on, I'm to draw a sketch and Notan (a black and white drawing with a Sharpie to determine shadow shapes) before painting. And I'm to keep painting...a lot.
When everyone left, I went to work on the following paintings and tried to apply my new knowledge in making corrections. I also followed this step by step procedure (Elizabeth Tolley) on how to paint a Eucalyptus when I re-did the painting below. I think the tree shape on the right definitely looks more like a Eucalytpus now. It's the first of many more to come.
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