Postings of my various and sundry attempts at something like art
This is following a step-by-step presentation of the painting of a farm with some clumps of cows out front.
The purpose of the project is to learn how to show clumps of things without really detailing each object in the clump.
I’ve gotten as far as doing a colour study in my sketchbook. I’m not sure what else I’ll tackle.
The journal page for this can be found at
https://tamouse.notion.site/Paint-Step-by-step-of-the-Farm-d753c5335dd54b1793983c0be060a586
I was watching another tutorial video by James Julier on sea sunsets . I was inspired to make my own, based on an old photo — I can’t place exactly where the original was, but it was a rocky beach, somewhere on the west coast near Santa Cruz. The project post gives more info and intermediate steps.
I watched and followed part of a tutorial on YouTube, from James Julier, on painting a digital landscape of trees with mountains in background. I departed from the tutorial partway through, but still a good time. https://www.notion.so/tamouse/James-Julier-landscape-tutorial-6fe9dc3b66c34b238e7d7e00973a619b
This was a fun project to do over the past couple of weeks.
The project journal post can be found at https://www.notion.so/tamouse/Foggy-Farm-Greets-Blackbird-2d90e1248aa948a2afad0dca23332533
This week, March 24, 2021, we started a new project in class. The source photo is from our teacher’s own collection, taken on a beach around Manitowoc of Lake Michigan.
Follow along at the entry at https://www.notion.so/tamouse/Manitowoc-Beach-in-June-34dc565aab2d4bac83e76e1ee2d1f14b.
Many macOS users will likely recognize the source for this painting as one or the background images provided in the recent past. Every time it would pop onto my background or go by in a screen saver, I’d just give a sigh and stare at it.
Jokingly naming the painting “Ellie Font” for no typographical reason, just the way my brain works.
Again, the blog is over on Notion.so:
https://www.notion.so/tamouse/Ellie-Font-eb4f71d018b5434f817cb08d9e0b1d0c
We started a new painting class project in February. It’s a picture our teacher took while touring around near La Crescent / La Cross.
The actual blog post is at https://www.notion.so/Woodcarver-s-Barn-ef644546068e41c5887a0256908c1a18
Doing things a little differently this time. Instead of writing my blog post here, I wrote it using Notion.so.
Early December 2020 project, from a photograph taken by our instructor.
Continue reading “Seal Beach, California”
This was a class project, and it was fun. We used some techniques that we’d learned previously, applying them to an whole project.
Continue reading “Barn, Snow, Pine Tree, and Fences”