Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Make It About What It's About


An idea I heard at the Stephen Quiller workshop I took 2 summers ago was, 'make the painting about what it's about'.  To me, this meant, identify the main idea of the painting and emphasize that.  A few days ago I posted an image, Cascade.  When I lived with that image I came to realize that the main idea was the interplay of the colourful tree and the more muted background.  A lot of the original image, particularly the left side of the painting wasn't really adding anything to the painting.  This cropped version of that image is, I feel, much stronger.

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Posted by Rex Beanland at 12:28 AM

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    I agree the tree really stands out proud and profound. Nice !

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  2. Rex BeanlandJanuary 17, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    Thanks for the comment. I think it's a much stronger composition like this. I have to credit my wife with guiding me to see it this way.

    Rex

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  3. Renee CarrierJanuary 19, 2011 at 6:34 PM

    I love how you used the negative space in the tree!

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  4. Rex BeanlandJanuary 19, 2011 at 8:37 PM

    Thanks Renee. Nice to hear from you.

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