It's good to have a friend who is more than happy to talk about all the finer details of things no one else cares about. Like gouache, for example, and portable sketching.
Carey and I have such good momentum together; we inspire each other.
And we both painted yesterday... she painted in the afternoon, then later I painted at dance, and she painted again with me at dance from her studio. And I am happy Carey painted because her work is just so. good. and it is lovely to see. So it was lovely to be painting with Carey, and I LOVE the energy of painting in the dance studio. It is a late class and no one is there but me. The energy is so good... everyone is working and doing their thing, and there is nice music and it really is a wonderful atmosphere. I don't know why I only started just now. I'm so slow it is baffling.
Literally every single thing in my cigar box gouache kit has been sitting collecting (pastel) dust in my studio for YEARS. I wish it didn't take me so long to come to combinations that work.
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I am enjoying these gouache studies because they are making me handle situations I don't normally.
And practice in one area naturally flows to another.
So, for example when I had all my values blocked in, the girl who cleans the studio in the evenings shut off all the lights in the private lesson room. Which is what I was painting.
Now, honestly, I could have asked her to leave them on, or I could have just turned them on again myself. But I didn't. Mostly because it didn't matter all that much to me. This is why we have visual memory. I had been looking at it long enough, and I had enough blocked in that I could go with it. Besides, when I am out plein airing, my entire light structure changes constantly and despite several attempts at asking nicely, the sun does not listen to me and the clouds do not stay still.
Compared to plein air, sitting indoors painting is luxury! It is much easier. There is a restroom, temperature control, NO WIND, no bugs, etc. Though I really miss plein airing and can't wait to get out again.
Carey and I have such good momentum together; we inspire each other.
And we both painted yesterday... she painted in the afternoon, then later I painted at dance, and she painted again with me at dance from her studio. And I am happy Carey painted because her work is just so. good. and it is lovely to see. So it was lovely to be painting with Carey, and I LOVE the energy of painting in the dance studio. It is a late class and no one is there but me. The energy is so good... everyone is working and doing their thing, and there is nice music and it really is a wonderful atmosphere. I don't know why I only started just now. I'm so slow it is baffling.
Literally every single thing in my cigar box gouache kit has been sitting collecting (pastel) dust in my studio for YEARS. I wish it didn't take me so long to come to combinations that work.
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I am enjoying these gouache studies because they are making me handle situations I don't normally.
And practice in one area naturally flows to another.
So, for example when I had all my values blocked in, the girl who cleans the studio in the evenings shut off all the lights in the private lesson room. Which is what I was painting.
Now, honestly, I could have asked her to leave them on, or I could have just turned them on again myself. But I didn't. Mostly because it didn't matter all that much to me. This is why we have visual memory. I had been looking at it long enough, and I had enough blocked in that I could go with it. Besides, when I am out plein airing, my entire light structure changes constantly and despite several attempts at asking nicely, the sun does not listen to me and the clouds do not stay still.
Compared to plein air, sitting indoors painting is luxury! It is much easier. There is a restroom, temperature control, NO WIND, no bugs, etc. Though I really miss plein airing and can't wait to get out again.
:D Yes, we do well together; it's probably why we were prisonmates!
ReplyDeleteAsking the cleaning lady to turn those lights on would probably be like asking the sun to tone down or brighten up. ha... You and Carey are a great pair. The gouache looks like fun.
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