a painting and a drawing

 

So, it all started with a post from the Writer's Almanac this week... mentioning Georges Braque. I remember I like his work, and wanted to learn more about him, so I did a little research...

 

I looked and looked through his artwork, to see why I'm drawn to his style, and what makes his style so definable to me... 

 

 I decided it was the hard edges, or planes, with color dragged away from them... kind of like last week's leaves painting I did. I got out the prismacolor watercolor pencils and did a quick still life of a pink flower. My goal was to be sparse with detail, but capture some planes of shape.

sometimes I blended the pencil colors, and the whole thing was pretty simple...

just pencil lines

til I added water.  I wet the area just away from the line, the way I wanted the paint to travel, then wet the line dragging the color toward the wet paper...

finished version

Well, then... 

Not so simple after all, but very impressionistic to me. I love the slashes of color and how they blend out, I like the odd vase, the stark table, the very simple flower shape. I went back after it dried and added in white highlights with posca pen.
 

Then I wondered if I could capture the planes of a reclining  poodle

and without overthinking it, got out a pencil and scrap paper. I will try this with the pencil technique on better paper, but I like it.

I'm finding a style... it's quite simple compared to people who sketch in detail with lots of shading. I like this not that I won't continue to study other styles. 

In fact, I found a show on youtube called the Forger's Masterclass... three people are taught how to paint in the style of a master painter, so it discusses the painter's style in great detail. I watched that after doing this exercise, and plan to watch the one on Braque. I imagine I'll enjoy watching this show on all the great painters. 

this week I did a small fiber piece, in sort of a painterly style too... more tomorrow on how I made it...

I feel this follows along in the simple, planes kind of style too although this was made before the painting or research on Braque! Must be where I'm headed...

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