13d • Critique Club
Fawn
Here are a couple drawings and subsequent painted responses. I am curious about a few things:
- I love the directness of the drawings. There is a raw purity that gets lost when they are complicated by color and more detail. So can I pare paintings down to hold these qualities, or is it enough to allow the drawings to just be drawings? (side note, I don't usually thumbnail or sketch out anything before I paint - I was surprised by the drawings showing up as they did, and wanted to take them further - which I did in a mess of other drawings before going to the paint).
- The doe painting seems closest to the drawings' qualities. I could probably simplify her even more, and yet I appreciate the distribution of marks across the whole surface - she has a sure-ity about her that I quite like. Perhaps this is something that requires another iteration.
- The fawn painting might be over worked and too saccharine, but there's a certain magic she holds. I do want to try another version in a darker palette still, just to see if I can't make it a bit more foreboding. But also, after painting and drawing so many studies where fawn spots turn to moths, that idea now feels boring. The awe is gone. So another thing for me to think about is how to preserve that feeling of awe while working out the idea.
- the first drawing on the crumpled paper is so intriguing - I am tempted to get out my oil paints and see what replicating/responding to this (including the page wrinkling and shadows) in oil might look like.
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