I am ashamed to post mine after seeing Ree's beautiful picture. She should be so proud of hers, it is absolutely beautiful.
Mine is 5" x 7" on canvas panel. My housemate knew what it was, which surprised me, do you?
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Oh i know I know, it's an accurate depiction of the iniside of my head when I close my eyes. tah's my shriveled brain to the right...right?
ReplyDeleteREally. it looks like a night landscape to me.
Moreton Bay, View from Manly-Wynnum Market last Sunday. But where have all the yachts gone?
ReplyDeleteYup, a land and sea mass is my guess as well. So how did you like doing this? I dont' think I would have the patience. Second thought, I know I wouldnt' have the patience.
ReplyDeleteWhen Ree and Anne have commented I will tell you.. hehehe
ReplyDeletePatience, is a huge factor, and as you can see I was lacking in that respect.
I think I would like to try a bigger one oneday, maybe when I am 90!
I haven't got a clue what it is ....maybe a lanscape .....but it's still better than mine is ..... :(
ReplyDeleteO.k. Yes you are right. It is a landscape. It is a headland, water and sky. It is actually done from a photo down Yamba way Colleen and Ree.
ReplyDeleteAnne don't feel so bad this one is the pits, You didn't know what it was. I want to see yours!!
How DO you show waves and such doing pointilism? I did a similar type of painting once and it nearly drove me nuts. That was 12 years ago and I swore off paintings like this, but fror you, I will try.
ReplyDeleteI guess it is just the varying degrees of depth of the dots. Leave the white caps white I guess? I have never painted pointillism before and I know nothing about it. I was hoping to learn something from this painting, but I didn't really, except that I needed to excise extreme patience. Ree and I are looking into this style in more depth. I think the landscape/marinescape was far too complex for a beginner.
ReplyDeleteI think this would have worked better if you had spaced the dots a little further apart as the white is lost and had them more uniformed.
ReplyDeleteA good try though! ;)
So, then, can I go in with white dots now then, and rectify it?? ;-)
ReplyDeleteNot white dots, but lighter blue, varying shades of blue. Different blues would work too, thalo + white, Cerullean, etc beside each other.
ReplyDeleteI gotta say, you did better than I could I think. I'm way too impatient for niggling dots on a canvas.
And Ree showed us that simple is better than a complicated landscape. I think I would have done the same as you JJ or Anne.
Ok. Here is my take.
ReplyDeleteI was on the understanding that pointillism was using the primary colours only. White paint is not a primary.
Primary colours are one blue - one red - one yellow.
I read nothing about mixing those primary colours. What I read, was that you put your dots of colour next to each other, using your colour theory knowledge, and when the picture was viewed from a distance, your own eye mixed the colours in your head and you saw a 3D picture, full of values and tones.
Yeah, but I didn't think they had to full strenghth colours to do it. I'm probably wrong, but Ree's pic wasn't straight primariesa nd they were lighter versions. Now I gotta go look agian, just came back.
ReplyDeleteher's is yellow, white and varing shades of ochre and I think raw umber. But like I say, of late I've been wrong lots.
Actually I am pretty sure Ree used the primaries as was stated in the challenge, but I will let her address that question.
ReplyDeleteLet me know what you discover in your research. I don't remember saying they had to be full strength, but they did have to be the primaries in this challenge.
Hi Bruce...my palette was all primaries...cad yellow...naphthol red...ultramarine blue. No ochre or raw umber and no white only white paper showing! ;)
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