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Feeling: Relaxed
Hearing: Rain splish-splashing
I'm now working on a proper full-scale landscape at last.
Think Albrecht Altdorfer. Deep perspective. Drama. And all taking place as close as Ditchling Beacon, the highest point in East Sussex.
What we're getting is foxgloves again but overlooking a v steep view over Sussex, Surrey and much of Kent in a sexy blue haze. The foreground features a sea of wheat in high detail dropping down suddenly to trees the size of daisies. Everything's inverted. That's how one should do landscapes. Make 'em strikingly different.
But it all takes time. Hadn't realised that the foxgloves in Dreaming Spires, one of my best sellers, were made up of many glazes of quinacridone red and diaxazine purple all in tiny splurges. Start recreating all that business only to find life's moved on from when I had the time to drift into these things. There's now a computer to play on, leaves to be swept, etc.
Anyway, despite all this, here finally is the finished pic after a spot of primping:
Feeling: Relaxed
Hearing: Rain splish-splashing
I'm now working on a proper full-scale landscape at last.
Think Albrecht Altdorfer. Deep perspective. Drama. And all taking place as close as Ditchling Beacon, the highest point in East Sussex.
What we're getting is foxgloves again but overlooking a v steep view over Sussex, Surrey and much of Kent in a sexy blue haze. The foreground features a sea of wheat in high detail dropping down suddenly to trees the size of daisies. Everything's inverted. That's how one should do landscapes. Make 'em strikingly different.
But it all takes time. Hadn't realised that the foxgloves in Dreaming Spires, one of my best sellers, were made up of many glazes of quinacridone red and diaxazine purple all in tiny splurges. Start recreating all that business only to find life's moved on from when I had the time to drift into these things. There's now a computer to play on, leaves to be swept, etc.
Anyway, despite all this, here finally is the finished pic after a spot of primping:
The Long View
1 comments:
Good to see you're passionate about painting again. Your latest sounds like it could be a corker.
Don't settle for second best.
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