tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542811459603883481.post3477549918267707055..comments2011-12-29T22:05:53.065-08:00Comments on chicken on the nest: every mark mattersSarah Ketelaarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06581178977005074925noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542811459603883481.post-18351175147682003822009-05-20T05:34:17.827-07:002009-05-20T05:34:17.827-07:00You raise many very interesting questions here! Be...You raise many very interesting questions here! Being very slow I've not a lot to say on the matter, except that we need to allow ourselves to make mistakes and messes if we want to progress. I tell it to my students everyday and try to live by it (easier said than done ; ). Anyway, I need to say that your final painting is beautiful, and moving. Love the colors, very poetical, and there's a great movement in it!kazumiwannabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02314259816204251753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542811459603883481.post-46611536475304380102009-05-18T09:44:00.000-07:002009-05-18T09:44:00.000-07:00Hi Sarah! You left some wonderful and flattering c...Hi Sarah! You left some wonderful and flattering comments on my site - you made my day! You have a wonderful ability to open up a fabulous 'arty' debate - you should do it more! <br />I have 'killed' many a painting by putting a line in the wrong place, I have also produced some 'fantastic' work, gone to bed, next day... bad painting fairies have been in the night and made it horrible! I would love a button on my easel that allows you to restore it back to the place just before it all went wrong! I love Owens comment - make it bigger, my advice to anyone is paint big, if not, have a small space but fill it! Rachels advice, 'if it's wrong, get rid of it, do it again' is so right. We can be really precious about our art and spend hours getting it wrong, at the end of it you may have lost a piece of paper and a bit of ink - I have many paintings out there on canvas's with a horror of a painting underneath! You work like an artist, the elements are there, the rest is about honing skills and just keep doing it!Stephen Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16876113438372579654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542811459603883481.post-13031289353070380312009-05-18T01:11:00.000-07:002009-05-18T01:11:00.000-07:00I think "rubbing out over half of it" is about par...I think "rubbing out over half of it" is about par for the course for life drawing - isn't that the whole point? It's something that was always drummed into us at school, then again on my foundation year, then again in college. If it's wrong, get rid of it. Do it again. It's a hard lesson to learn when you've spent half an hour on a foot that you think is your best foot ever, then you realise it's an inch too far to the left, but it's a useful one. And you're right, it's freeing to know you can always do it again. <br /><br />I think that "every mark matters" thing is a really useful one as well though, and it's something I'd started to think about more in the last year (when I used to draw instead of just clean the house). I'd always been guilty of just scribbling until there were more lines in the right place than in the wrong place, but I realised I could benefit from being a bit more deliberate. <br /><br />Anyway, well done on sorting the drawing out. I love the quality of the colour on the pink bits - it's kind of glowy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542811459603883481.post-58320471940916386152009-05-16T10:42:00.000-07:002009-05-16T10:42:00.000-07:00I love these drawings.
I had the same trouble in c...I love these drawings.<br />I had the same trouble in college with multidraft essays (probably why I don't have my masters yet).<br />Congrats on making it through.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542811459603883481.post-8263775107228447582009-05-12T16:05:00.000-07:002009-05-12T16:05:00.000-07:00These drawings are really good! They have an expr...These drawings are really good! They have an expressiveness that I wish many of my drawings had.David R. Vallejohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188837526693333112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542811459603883481.post-45862145554065549282009-05-12T09:37:00.000-07:002009-05-12T09:37:00.000-07:00One art instructor I had always wanted us to "Make...One art instructor I had always wanted us to "Make it wigger" (he had an interesting accent and bigger came out wigger. Always, wigger, wigger. One day I got a tad bothered over it and during our figure studies drew so large the figure went well off the page in more than one place. I could feel him looking over my shoulder. When I turned, hoping I would find him annoyed only to see him beaming. He patted me on the back and said, "Now, make it even wigger."<br /><br />Well, he did go a long way to helping me to get over myself and be less timid. :)<br /><br />Happy creating to you.owenswainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540186205959897960noreply@blogger.com