I've been in a study mode for the last couple weeks. I feel like I'm immersing myself in technique and theory and at one point I read that I could be at a state where my brain knows more than what my level of talent is at. Like the conscious incompetant state of awareness. I've been studying color theory, still life techniques, landscape techniques, brushwork, reading, painting and watching DVD's.
The results of all this is that I'm not that pleased with the results! And I realise maybe I'm at a point that I just need to lay all that down and just create now. I know enough...now just keep doing it. The following is a few pictures of what I've been doing. (Most of which I'm not that pleased with).
The results of all this is that I'm not that pleased with the results! And I realise maybe I'm at a point that I just need to lay all that down and just create now. I know enough...now just keep doing it. The following is a few pictures of what I've been doing. (Most of which I'm not that pleased with).
The top two are from photos I took a few years ago on holidays. The west coast and the Rockies. The middle right is a study from an art book. The bottom right is a photo taken from the bog near our old home in Delta, BC. And the pepper and the lemons are still lifes I set up a couple days ago.
I was so annoyed with my result of the pepper still life, that I splashed and overpainted it with some leftover paint on my palette. I like this result better than the formal study I began to do!
I was so annoyed with my result of the pepper still life, that I splashed and overpainted it with some leftover paint on my palette. I like this result better than the formal study I began to do!