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I started this painting with the conviction that waiting for the right spark of inspiration is a foolish endeavour in art. The only way to waste a canvas is to think your idea isn’t worthy. That’s why I set out to create the most beautiful painting I have made yet, with a simple subject: a portrait of the stag I painted before. This painting is my defiance against the belief that great art needs to be unique and filled with meaningful symbolism. All it should take is for the artist to see beauty in the world and a desire to capture it.
This is a simple portrait of the same deer I painted sitting on a spoon before. This new painting however is presented with a much warmer and friendly looking pallet and composition. The intense white ruffles around the shoulders contrast strongly with the black of the ribbon around the neck. The orange fur surrounded by a red background further supports the feeling of warmth in the light; together they make the eye contact with the stag feel warm and inviting. The painting itself is life size on a 40cm by 60cm canvas, making the act of looking at it feel personal.
The simplicity of this painting mirrors it’s message. Definitions and expectations make it easier to talk about things, but the world exists in spite of them. Listen to your art for what it needs before listening to others for what it should be.
Painting-information:
Character's owner: me
Tools: oil paint on wood panel
Finished: 21st of June 2020
Time invested: -
This is a simple portrait of the same deer I painted sitting on a spoon before. This new painting however is presented with a much warmer and friendly looking pallet and composition. The intense white ruffles around the shoulders contrast strongly with the black of the ribbon around the neck. The orange fur surrounded by a red background further supports the feeling of warmth in the light; together they make the eye contact with the stag feel warm and inviting. The painting itself is life size on a 40cm by 60cm canvas, making the act of looking at it feel personal.
The simplicity of this painting mirrors it’s message. Definitions and expectations make it easier to talk about things, but the world exists in spite of them. Listen to your art for what it needs before listening to others for what it should be.
Painting-information:
Character's owner: me
Tools: oil paint on wood panel
Finished: 21st of June 2020
Time invested: -
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 845 x 1280px
File Size 780.1 kB
I'm glad to hear that doing these big projects occasionally pays off! The longer a painting takes, the smaller the changes you make become, so if you want to push really far how far you take a piece, then got to invest a lot of time. That can be quite spooky at times. But in the end I'm glad to have done it. (:
Yeah! And if you look at artists like Rembrandt; he specifically sometimes gets called the most skilled artist in history for painting portraits of people in the same basic pose. All it really takes to make great art is a willingness to see beauty in what you paint. The point I see a lot of artists fail is that instead of thinking about their painting, they focus on how they want people to react to it, the details they want viewers to notice and talk about. Or even worse, they focus on the praise they imagine getting for having made the painting. Art is an opportunity to let the world look through your eyes and see beauty you see. That opportunity is squandered in it's entirety if you paint through the eyes of other people you often don't even know yet, in an effort to chase their praise. (:
That is a remarkable way of seeing such. I truly admire Rembrandt's works. But what you said "...great art is a willingness to see beauty in what you paint..." I remember reading that he knew he was homely looking, and yet he painted many self-portraits. Your statement really points that out. He wasn't doing it for the praise but doing what HE saw, truthful in his art.
They say in writing, "Write what you'd want to buy and read" which is basically the same thing. Write for others when your paid, otherwise write what you love.
They say in writing, "Write what you'd want to buy and read" which is basically the same thing. Write for others when your paid, otherwise write what you love.
There are paintings of fields of flowers that look almost the same as the real thing, but in day to day life you never notice them because they're always there. The act of painting them allows other people to see the beauty. It allows others to notice what things that where always there in the first place. It's the same with writing. If you depict or describe something that you think others want to see, then you'll just give them the same old boring world they've always seen. But if you've ever had a teacher who's good at their job, you'll know how their enthusiasm can inspire. You never knew you wanted to know about the glitches of some old Zelda game, but then you find that one Youtube video where some guy talks about that with pure joy and suddenly you care about it too. It happens everywhere. Following trends never allows you to inspire others. You got to share something you love yourself. (:
Fully true, on all fronts. I find that when I have nothing to actually write, I simply fill my writing notebooks with simple things, such as describing a simple puffball in the woods that I found (It was a /foot across/) but just describing it brought out things you don't see; smells, sounds, experiences. I do with the love of what I'm experiencing, the amazement of such.
I should just set up a blog on Medium just for these snippets. Might be something someone would love to see. Thank you deer for the inspiration! :)
I should just set up a blog on Medium just for these snippets. Might be something someone would love to see. Thank you deer for the inspiration! :)
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