Second Still Life Painting from Workshop
It's taken me a while to photograph this painting as I've been a bit challenged with light (or the lack of it) and rain. Yesterday there was a brief moment when the rain stopped and I rushed out onto the deck and managed to grab this image before the rains started again. :-) This is the second painting I did at the Still Life Workshop last weekend. We had about two hours to complete each piece, allowing our instructor Keith Hiscock, to come around to each of us a few times, giving us feedback.
Keith acknowledged that critiquing is very valuable but that we don't always have someone there to critique our work, so he recommended regular self critiques. To do this, he suggested choosing an artist whose work we admire, selecting an aspect of their painting skills that we would like to develop in our own painting skill set, and work on that aspect. It's not to copy their style, but to understand and develop things like brushwork etc. After the completion of each painting, we should do a comparison of our work against theirs, to gauge our improvement. The skill and artist should keep changing as we improve our skill set. I think most of us do this on a casual basis, but by specifically choosing a skill for improvement, focusing on that, and doing regular comparisons to monitor development, results will be much greater. I think this an excellent and easy to do tool for self development, and feel quite excited to get started on this.
Awesome painting! The folds in the fabric are so pretty, with the same colors in the fruit too! And what you wrote about comparing your own work to some aspect of another artist's work... That's a good idea! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYour workshop looks like a lot of fun. I think you're doing a great job!
ReplyDeleteParabéns!
ReplyDeleteexcelent painting!
Thank you Kathrine, Susan and Antonio for visiting and taking the time to comment. I'm glad you're enjoying some of the information from my recent workshop. It was a great experience with lots of develop to come as a result.
ReplyDeleteTout est légèreté et pureté... Beaucoup de profondeur grâce à votre fond nuancé... Vous avez bien parcimonieusement placé vos plis... Travail très appliqué.
ReplyDeleteBravo!
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This is a beautiful painting Claire. The fruit looks very yummy and I love the folds of the material. Well done.
ReplyDeleteMerçi Martine, and thanks Hilda! I really appreciate your kind thoughts.
ReplyDeleteYour painting has come out beautifully with that dark shade behind and the light just right for us to see. A real gem! Helen
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