the casein paints. This one along the Peshtigo River...
for the heck of it, to see what I might learn...I might
varnish this one...then do a bit of glazing with copal
medium and oils.
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- Larry Seiler
- Enculturation imbued with print media & tv means we live in a 2nd reality, one the lens sees. Lifeless shadows, static detail rank accurate to life. My renaissance from 20 years in studio came after taking my paints outdoors. Several things happened- I saw color as only an artist can see, (painting being the deeper way of seeing); I was overwhelmed with all to be worked out in short order; thirdly, that taunt of a feeling I knew nothing of painting! Such would send many back to the pretense of the familiar, but I’m not good hiding from myself that which I’m not able to succeed. By right…I should be able to paint outdoors, and was going to do this were it to kill me. Kill me it did! So complete was that death, I could no longer aspire to paint as artists I had admired. Their works now lifeless, labored, detailed, realistic, yes...but no sense of REAL'ness. I wish I had started nature’s schooling much younger, but lives are like books. Not one chapter stuck to one narrative. Life can be filled with many chapters. It can have interesting twists and new directions, and I say go for it! *See my book on landscape painting, and new DVDs available thru “Books & Videos” at larryseiler.com
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3 comments:
I like how the one from yesterday came out better than this one. Seems like a tough thing to paint plein air with.
Is it tougher than gouache?
I think the glazing into this one might work nicely.
The piece has a good design.
For new painters, Frank...I often tell them it takes about 120 bad paintings to learn something about painting. I think when seasoned painters try a media totally foreign to them...though as much intuition engages as is possible, there is yet that learning curve.
It is as much a challenge to paint and struggle thru handling the new media, as it is just to tune in and do nature justice. It was a thing of seeing what the paint would do, while yet a part of me would hope to make a painting work. The scene had its intrigue with part of the foreground in shadow...a canopy, and the light in the distance. More of a challenging scene than yesterdays, so I wonder if that is the more the paint or just me? Hard to say...
For one thing...softening edges of contours to push edges back. Certainly an easier thing to do with oils, as the surface sucks this casein right up giving little of any wet on wet feel. Perhaps if I treated the paper with an acrylic medium first...hhmm...lots of stuff to experiment with I know that.
thanks..
Just want to report that this morning, I applied Krylon Kamar varnish to the caseins, and the varnish spray covered easily, no issue...
and now...I'll experiment with a bit of oil color glaze mixed into a thin layer of copal. We'll see what happens...
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