Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Rhododendron
Here's an odd one. Summer of 2008 I took a class with Marlene Ahmann. She's a fantastic local artist, inspired frequently by Zoltan Szabo. Taught us a lot about negative shapes. For this exercise we were told to find something outside we liked and paint it, using negative shapes and light. I loved the way the sun lit up this gnarled and ancient rhododendron. I never really finished it, but it's grown on me as-is. What do people think? What does it need?
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What's a negative shape?
I like it but I couldn't tell you what it needs, though I think it needs a little something.
w.v.: bante
Negative shapes happen when you paint a dark background up to the edge of a light shape, creating the shape WITH the background instead of imposing the shape ON the background. Nifty, eh?
And good words. ☺
Negative shapes happen when you paint a dark background up to the edge of a light shape, creating the shape WITH the background instead of imposing the shape ON the background. Nifty, eh?
And good words. ☺
Negative shapes happen when you paint a dark background up to the edge of a light shape, creating the shape WITH the background instead of imposing the shape ON the background. Nifty, eh?
And good words. ☺
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