{"id":72,"date":"2015-01-06T22:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-01-21T00:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T05:07:37","slug":"studio-notes-the-landscape-evolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2015\/01\/studio-notes-the-landscape-evolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Notes – the landscape evolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a sort of journalistic experiment, I’m going to follow the development of my recently started Paysage plan\u00e9taire<\/em><\/a> painting through several blog posts. \u00a0This should be interesting, and maybe\u00a0disastrous, since I don’t know how the painting is\u00a0going to turn out. For me, creating is perhaps like giving birth to something — that something<\/em> has a unique and independent existence. \u00a0(Or, to put a humorous spin on it, sometimes I feel like Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein<\/em> — “It’s alive!”) Yes, I have a lot do with how it turns out, but ultimately the work\u00a0takes on a life of its own. \u00a0If things go well, it’s almost as if the painting paints itself. So far, I think it’s going well.<\/p>\n

So recall where I left it the other day:<\/p>\n

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Paysage plan\u00e9taire<\/em> in progress, oil on canvas, 24×24″<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Essentially this what is classically referred to as the “cartoon<\/strong>” – just the outline. \u00a0I also added a little texture and shading in blacks, whites and grays. \u00a0Today I started filling in the underpainting:<\/p>\n

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Paysage<\/em> in progress, shot #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First blue sky. Then I started adding some greens:<\/p>\n

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Paysage<\/em> progress shot #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Paysage<\/em> progress shot #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Essentially I’m taking a layered approach, or a semi-layered approach. \u00a0I could have done it all alla prima<\/em>, wet-on-wet, in one big session. \u00a0My plan is to finish the underpainting in this fashion, and then do a big alla prima<\/em> overpainting to finish it off. \u00a0That will either complete the piece — or ruin it.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I’ve left it tonight:<\/p>\n

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Paysage plan\u00e9taire<\/em> in progress (as of 1\/6\/2015), oil on canvas, 24×24″.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The underpainting is not quite done. I’ll finish that up soon. And I’m going to find the reference to “paysage plan\u00e9taire” and report back here.<\/p>\n

Oh, in case you’re wondering the reference for this piece is a photograph I took in the Adirondacks (upstate New York) a few summers ago. \u00a0I’m not going to show that photo here since it is only a point of reference, an inspiration for the work, and not the work itself. \u00a0I don’t want to invite comparisons between this inspiration and the painting, which is definitely it’s own thing. \u00a0I’m not a fan of the concept of “representation” in art (at least as I currently understand it). But I’ll save that topic for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a sort of journalistic experiment, I’m going to follow the development of my recently started Paysage plan\u00e9taire painting through several blog posts. \u00a0This should be interesting, and maybe\u00a0disastrous, since I don’t know how the painting is\u00a0going to turn out. 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