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Planning Is Everything
No painting for me today. Instead, I’m going to be spending the afternoon planning paintings to do over the next few days. I’ve had a stroll around the village looking for inspiration and ended up with these 23 potential ideas (do bear in mind that what makes a good photo is definitely not the same thing as what makes a good painting). The next step is for me to pick out some of these and turn them into plans.
So I’ll be:
– working out which ones have the most interesting shapes in them
– working out whether there are any rogue trees/cars/whatever that the painting would be better off without
– thinking about how to crop them so the centre of interest is at one of the four hotspots
– making sure there’s a nice entry into the picture leading to the centre of interest and nothing dragging the viewer out of the painting
– drawing in the shapes and planning the values and finally the colours
– thinking about whether I could try out Frank Webb’s push-pull or patch against patch ideas.
It feels like I’m about to take a big step forward. Watch this space!.
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