Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

What's on the Easel

This blog is being started as more or less a bet.  Two of my friends, Geoffrey and Nick claim that blogging can bring in business.

I say, nobody reads blogs!

So, let’s let the contest begin!

 Now with that said, what I can do is give a progress report on the painting that I am working on each day. Today I started a 30x40 piece on some boats up in Seattle

I started out with just a quick block in to figure out the basic composition. Using a medium sized brush, I will draw with a few lines the subject matter. There is really no point in getting too detailed with the drawing part of it, since it will be covered over with washes of thin paint. I tend to work more with shapes and masses than line drawings.

It’s still a little crude, but "c'est le vie"

Then I worked on trying to define some of the boats, and filling in the rest of the canvas with paint. Once again the lines are being obliterated by the fields of color I am laying down.  I like to have it all covered over in the first session, thereby thinking out all my composition problems.  The rest of the painting now I can relax on now, since my composition is all figured out.

Okay, I understand most people will be looking at this and saying “It’s still just a bunch of unfinished blobs of paint?”……what’s more important for me, is that I know how it will look in the end.

Richard Boyer 

http://richardboyerart.com/

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