Monday, November 14, 2011

Proposal Version 3.0

Alright, on my way to sort of starting over I have yet again changed paths. The idea of simply re-creating a strawberry left behind, I first began thinking of ways to carry my liking of the strawberry into my new concentration. I was heavily considering a series of large works (not HUGE but large by my standards) that were up close, distorted studies of the air bubble's distortions to the strawberry, where you could sort of recognize that it was a odd up close strawberry, but not really. I was going to place a lot of emphasis on the color as well, keeping with the deep reds that I liked about the original picture, but creating new contrast as well. I didn't know what medium to use because Prismacolors were to slow and not practical for large scale works, I don't really know how to paint so if I was to experiment it would be with something simpler like acrylics instead of oils, watercolor was an option, but it wouldn't be bright enough and the edges could never be quite bold enough. It was then that I considered doing the drawing or outline in ink and then going over it with watercolor in an exaggerated fashion, but it still wouldn't be as dark or bold as I was wanting, it would just be lightly toned paper.

So it was then that I really started thinking about this as a technique. Sure, it probably wouldn't work for something I wanted to be bold like the strawberry, but it could work for other things.
One thing that I remembered that I have, is a lot of pictures from my grandmother's farm. They are mostly just random images of old objects and such, but I think they're interesting and they have meaning to me. So I wondered how it would work to draw the random objects as studies using a micron pen or something, and then go over them with watercolor. The images are not especially colorful, and using true and exact colors wouldn't be very interesting, so I instead figured using simply earthy tones over the entire page would work okay. That way I could do a few, and they would be tied together not only by their relations as old farm objects, but also in technique.

Thus, I have decided to do ink studies of random farm objects, both from personal pictures, and then through the use of online pictures as well if necessary. I don't know that I would even stick to just objects, I might do things like old farm buildings as well. But, anyway, the ink studies, then shaded with cross hatching, and then lightly washed in earthy tones using watercolor, to give and old, rustic, and nostalgic sort of feeling.

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