Dawn has a more rational approach to her art than
I do. She figures out the entire
composition first, then does a series of preliminary sketches to fine-tune
it. She also does full-color preliminary
drawings for many of the individual sections to see what color schemes work
best. She’s been working a lot in
pastels and oil pastels lately, and the results are pretty impressive.
Personally, I’ve been sticking with
acrylics. I like oils, but the clean-up
is too involved. I take more of a
Pollock approach, where I start with a blank canvas and maybe the vaguest of
ideas of where I want to go with it. I
think exactly one of my last dozen or so canvases have turned out like I
envisioned. Mostly, I start with a color
scheme and let the image grow from there. Needless to say, a lot of my paintings have
other, abandoned, ideas buried beneath the finished product. I like to put the paint on as thinly and
smoothly as possibly to accommodate this part of the process…..
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