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Hi Dan,
This is only my humblest of opinions, since I’m still learning too. I think you have lots of talent and it’s a shame that you stepped away from it, but I can understand getting discouraged from hitting your head against the brick wall of commercial art.
Your perspectives are great and I like your lifestudies. In my own work there’s something that bothers me and I see it in yours too. It’s like we’re too intense with color, painting everything instead of letting some parts fade due to atmospheric and light effects. That makes the pictures look hard and dead. I’m still looking for answers but Susan Sarback’s book “Capturing radiant light and color” has pointed me in the right direction. I struggle to “see the light” in the way she does, but I can see how her use of color brings life to paintings.
Hope this helps, your thoughts on how to improve my work would also be appreciated.
Kind regards!
Maca de Klerk
Hi Maca,
Thank you for commenting. I agree totally with your comment, I have also noticed that I need to work on my atmospheric perspective. Also thank you for the book recommendation, I will look for it.
I enjoyed looking at your work and disagree with another of your comments, I think you do quite a good job on your atmospheric perspective.
I did notice another element that we both have in common. I think we both tend to have too hard outlines. Whether it’s where a tree meets the ground or where a body meets fabric.
Hi Dan, I appologise for taking so long to reply. Since last comments I’ve studied the book of Richard Schmidt and learned a lot on both atmospheric perspective and hard and soft edges. Huge improvement in my work! I’d love to discuss such topics with you, especially recent study material I worked through regarding warm shadows and cool light. I haven’t nailed the concept interily yet and would like to hear other artists’ thoughts on it.
I’m at a place where I’ve learned a lot and can see the concepts in other’s paintings, but haven’t experimented with it in my own.
Hi Maca,
Which Richard Schmidt book did you read? I’d like to try to find it.
I read a very old book of a series of lectures by William Turner. He kept emphasizing that the further back your landscale goes the cooler the colors should be. That everything in the distance should remain cool. I had heard this before but after I read it I started to look more closely at his paintings and try it myself and it seems to work well as a general rule.