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There's a tree in the park I run in that I feel is sort of from a
magical Haruki-Murakami-esque reality. It casts a "shadow" but upon
close examination, it's not a shadow at all. It's like there's dirt
that's wet all around it and then a piece of dirt that's completely dry,
in the shape of a cast shadow. Same thing with the sidewalk. There's a
slice of the sidewalk that looks like part of the cast shadow but it's
not. It's just dry, where the other part of the sidewalk is not. Aside
from that, everything else is normal. Hahaha. I took a photo of that
magical tree and used it as a reference for this demo painting I made
while teaching a private painting lesson today.
My perspective in getting a landscape painted is by scribbling the skeleton first, and then going into the scribbles and fine-tuning as needed. I call it my scribble theory.
There's a tree in the park I run in that I feel is sort of from a
magical Haruki-Murakami-esque reality. It casts a "shadow" but upon
close examination, it's not a shadow at all. It's like there's dirt
that's wet all around it and then a piece of dirt that's completely dry,
in the shape of a cast shadow. Same thing with the sidewalk. There's a
slice of the sidewalk that looks like part of the cast shadow but it's
not. It's just dry, where the other part of the sidewalk is not. Aside
from that, everything else is normal. Hahaha. I took a photo of that
magical tree and used it as a reference for this demo painting I made
while teaching a private painting lesson today.
My perspective in getting a landscape painted is by scribbling the skeleton first, and then going into the scribbles and fine-tuning as needed. I call it my scribble theory. |