Color-mass painting is the exact opposite of drawing. Just because artists use brushes, doesn't mean that they're painting. However, when scrubbing with a brush, from the center moving out, an edge can be created by juxtaposing one color spot next to another.
(detail © 2000 C.Berk)
Placing a light against a dark, a cool against a warm, vague next to defined, a contour will emerge.
(detail © 2001 C.Berk)
Without filling in between lines, colors truly interact and the paint develops a visual life of its own...breathing undulating until each color functions to the individual artist's temperament.
Please leave your comments, questions, etc. below. (More artwork, by theme, will be posted soon.)
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Hello!
You're the art weblog of the day on http://aawad.canalblog.com
See you
Awadie
Thanks Awadie... appreciate the plug!
Have a creative day, Chuck
magnificent & very original work mate... saw you on flickr... gad I cam over here to have a look... I'm largely self-instructed but I agree with the laying in the colour and tone first approach...
Hey Cyclone...appreciate the kind comments. I'll check out your sketches and see ya on flickr.
Just happened to surf into this place. I really like your paintings. Very cool!
Hi Linn...hope you'll stop back often.
I just found out about flickr and have listed some of my work as well...under Art with Attitude in one of the groups you belong to (Art & Theory ?). Your method of painting is similar to my own. Creating mass by shadow, shade, color contrast and negative space...rather than line. It's a right brain thing...
I love your colors in your work. Will be checking back for more.
Thanks Margot...I hear you! and plan to see your work on Flickr.
So glad you posted this. I'm going to give it a try with my markers.
That would be interesting...to see what you can do with markers in this technique.
Yeah, as it turns out, yer as right as rain. The Heron Art School downtown does life drawing on Tuesday nights (by "downtown" I mean Indianapolis and by "Heron Art School" I mean the art school attached to IUPUI, so it won't be a case of painting naked birds....
Actually, it ain't gonna be that cheap as I live some fourty miles North of town (don't ask me why I keep calling it a town, they're pretty sure it ranks as city class) but since I want to do this thing, I'm just gonna do it.
Probably should have kept my part time job, though. I was training rabbits to walk bakwards in a straight row. Yeah, I called it a RECEDING HARE LINE.
Anyway, thanx fer the tip! SEE YA!
CONNELL
I "hare" ya Connell...just DO IT! E-me about your progress.
I like your breathing painting.
hfm
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Muito obrigado Helena.
Lovely to say so in Portuguese!
You are a good painter, drawer etc.
Congrats ...
just a happenstance ...
Mmmm, love them Belgium waffles. I've enjoyed surfing your stuff. Keep up the fine "Indigo" work. Regards to all in your art group.
The colors are lovely.
I enjoy your fin(e) drawings too.
This is exactly what my tutor was trying to explain to me recently but you make it sound so much clearer. Thank you so much .
Hey Heidi...sorry I missed your post. I think there are times when lines can be useful, but are often a crutch and therefore a distraction from many "juicy" paintings.
Red Writer...obviously you have a very wise tutor...lol! Try to keep in mind that when it comes to art, there are no rules and all techniques are eventually meant to be broken. Push the envelope and find what works for you, but when studying a technique practice it (as is) until you own it.
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