While the last attempt yielded long grasses, it was far too wild and rugged for good German, intensively fertilised corn. So, rather than pursuing Brian's good advice for variation, I veered intensively into the opposite direction: repetition, repitition, repetition (which figures as another point on his list).
So much so that I felt I was doing a caricature rather than a pastel painting. That wasn't a bad feeling, though: I'd love to be able to do them, but again: a lack of illustration skills gets in the way.
Just for memory purposes:
The first attempt at something bigger cornfieldish is here
Cornfields, Acrylics/Pastel on board 35x25cm
This, then is Cornfields # 2
Cornfields #2
Pastels/Acrylics on board, 35x25cm
And? Enough repetitive intensity?
Cornfields #2 Detail
Pastels/Acrylics on board, 35x25cm
I think so. But all the same, I notice something majorly wrong with this. Do you see it?
A hint: try to figure out time of day, direction of sun etc - usually the practicalities I don't bother with too much when I pick hues/values I want to. But with this one it struck me afterwards - too much realism gone wrong: The trees are getting full on sun from the left (south east) while the distance is almost in an evening/dust type dullness. Doesn't quite work, does it?
Will fix it, though. And then let cornfields be cornfields for a while.
2 comments:
You have achieved some wonderful colors here, Gesa. They stand apart for that reason alone.
Light direction? I couldn't care less - these have their own light!
Thank you, Casey. The colour intensity was good fun, I must admit: most of the colours I tend to use rather sparingly, but kind of muting/neutralising them by placing them close next to each other in the field was aj interesting experiment - it ends up such a vibrant neutral, well, probably the same as mixing your greys and blacks from scratch.
LOL - light direction. Yes, I do agree but that middle ground wants a bit more attention nonetheless, it tells me.
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