Robert Longo and Gernard Richter

Robert Longo

Full of charcoal and patience, detail and smoothness, sweetness and satire. This artist I definitely admire and would very well love to create and see the world in this way. Absolutely incredible. Something I would defiantly love to explore in his manner of art.

Gernard Richter
VVery intresting and unique, its a normal activity yet seen in a different perspective. As if it was a candid photograph. Something that is unique in it's own way and an emphasis on normal activitites that we tend to overlook. A composition of life on paper.

Pictorial Composition: an introduction

The Importance of Balance
"the sensitive eye of artist and viewer tests every picture fro balance, a judgment usually rendered naturally by everyone, with or without knowledge of artistic laws"

• balance is very important for all paintings and works of art, it creates an emphasis and pulls in a crowd which in turn makes an art piece strong in a visual aspect
• "the value of a unit depends on its attraction, and its attraction varies according to placement"
• "a unit near the edge has more attraction than the same unit at the middle"

-balances that many artists include in their work is balance of line, of mass, of light and dark, and of measure, so just making sure that everything is balanced throughout the piece. Making every section equal in attraction as in another section.
Looking back on my work, I realize I probably should have more acknowledged balance in my artwork. this of course would help me more on my composition and elements that include to make my artwork stronger, hopefully I can make them stronger. Practice and effort is the key.

Some of my recent work

DCA: Chapter 4

There are 6 categories of light as it falls over a form: highlight, light, shadow, core of shadow, reflected light, and cast shadow. All of these relate back to any artwork, of all the art elemets, " value has the greatest potential for spartical development" or basically just to any artwork.
* I think I got the concept down for light sources, however, I need to concentrate and apply it more to my Artwork, to create more depth and to create better form in my art. With my next project, a corner still life, I will definately need this to apply onto my figures in my actural artwork. How I'm going to get there.....I haven't quite figured that out.

Reading: Colston pg 84, 91

Perspective is actually very hard for me to recreate and of course, it helps with depth and distance. If I get this down, I will defiantly improve at least a level or two with my art work. Wish me luck on that.
Hint- viewpoint gives extra perspective that attracts the eye.
What I defiantly love...is side walk art...they definitely show depth and distance and are extremely well done. If I was good enough to do sidewalk art...I would do it.

Moon lighting: all about diagonal beams, in the end just use an eraser to emphasize the lighting. It's basically just like regular lighting on a still life, just more emphasised.

Landscape Artists

Bob Ross

I really love Bob Ross, I used to watch his t.v. series as well. I just admired how he was able to create such detail in his paintings with relatively simple pain brush techniques, he even used his pallet knife. He was able to create trees and water with either a dab or a swipe, all with great detail and most within a half hour time period.

                                                                                                                                                             

                                             Parham Mill at Gillingham-John Constable          

The Opening of Waterloo Bridge seen from White Hall Stairs-John Constable

John Constable is an English Romantic Painter from 1776-1837, an older era artist, but still quite remarkable. I would love to be able to create such detail like this, everything is very strong and concise, absolutely marvelous.

                                                                                                                                                                   

                                      Tower Mill at Wijk bij Duurstede-Jacob Van Ruisdael

                                          Bentheim Castle- Jacob Van Ruisdael
Jacob Van Ruisdael was a Dutch landscape painter from about 1628-1682, his paintings are very detailed and relitivlely realistic. I would only dream of painting like Ruisdael.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary:
Color: All colors can be defined as three things: hue, saturation and value.
Hue: The name of a color. Paint examples: Cadmium red, Lemon yellow….
Saturation: a color’s strength or intensity, this can be high or low.
Value: this is the color’s lightness or darkness.
Landscape: a painting of a scene in nature.
Under painting: applying thin (lots of water added) layers of paint to start your drawing.