I am staring into the finished colored version of my most recent landscape painting and am at a lost to find a connection with the painting. Perhaps I've been doing a number of similar paintings lately and the subject matter has become trifle trite? Perhaps I've become a little habitual in my presentation.
I am an enthusiast of Chinese Brush Painting and I would like to share my trials and tribulations in learning the craft. I want to document the process, the inspiration and the weird ideas behind my projects and to address some of the nuances related to this dicipline. I hope to create a dialogue and stir up some interest in the art of painting with a Chinese brush on Xuan. In any case, it would be interesting to see my own evolution as time progresses. This is my journal
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Adding Human Interest
Time to call in the cavalry for the rescue, sans the soldiers. I am hoping that the presence of horses might add some human interest to the landscape, which helps to connect with the viewer, me.
I am really going to town with the highlighted effect so I am painting all my horses with that kind of illumination. For the horses in the front row, I am actually painting the silhouette with white first and then come back to fill in with other pigments, leaving a sheath of white to achieve the back-lit effect.
I am making the eroded, gouged faces of the landscape more prominent, to better illustrate the truncated part where the river cuts through.
I suppose my painting now is more animated, figuratively and literally.
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