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You are a truly blessed person if you have even one friend whose door is always open to you. These special people are God's hand to help us deal with life. Let us all keep the door open to our friends.
Spontaneous is defined in the dictionary as something occurring without external cause...natural and unconstrained...involuntary; not due to conscious volition....instinctive...etc. If you've ever tried to achieve something that looks spontaneous in your artwork, then you know full well how difficult this can be.
I have concluded that any means of effortless mark making or unusual divisions of space should be explored. For me, cropping is still the number one means of acheiving such a look. Do whatever mark making , blocks of color, or texture you want using any medium or tools you want and create this on a large enough sheet of paper to allow for cropping. You will soon (after one try) realize you can be somewhat intentional about space left blank around these erratic images to allow for additional imagery or lettering after the cropping. Even if you are simply exploring unique divisions of space for work in a completely different medium, this is worth a shot. And it's terribly freeing and therapeutic! Try it. You'll like it!
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I agree with your cropping comment. For oils, back to the basics, since I cannot re-crop a panel the best way is to work out the design and blocking on a thumbnail sketch. To already have a plan on division of space is the key before starting. This thumbnail is often skipped by artists, but it is so necessary. Even "the masters" sketched! ~s
ReplyDeleteHad this been available last week, I would be in a quandry.
ReplyDeleteI love it and what a perfect gift for a special friend.
I *love* all the colors on that blue door!
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