Bring on the Rain
Dimensions: 60×48 inches Acrylic | Mixed Media on Birch
I like these prairie views too!
I had never had a “blank” on what to do with my art before, but recently I was stuck on this painting. These large-scale artworks for the Esplanade Exhibit in January 2022 were intimidating to me.
I spoke to a couple of my mentors… one of them being Doug Swinton and he gave me some good advice.
Sometimes you need to run your painting through an application called NOTAN.
What does this mean? You take a photo of your painting in black and white and upload it to this application on your phone. You can then adjust the levels of value. It helps you to see if you’ve lost all your dark value and where you can make improvements in both your dark areas and light areas of the artwork.
When I followed through with these instructions, I realized I had lost my center of interest. This helped me to be able to see that I needed to bring this focal area back by adding some texture to the bottom half of the artwork and brightening the area I wanted people to look at. I have a very busy sky in this artwork, but I wanted people to look in the distance to the edge of the farmhouse, not only at the sky.
Painting is a series of ideas and contains levels of structure and hierarchy. If one level is out of place, it can throw the whole structure of the painting off. Go back, figure out which level you are at and make your final adjustments to fix the problem.
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Bring ON the Rain
Original Available
Dimensions: 48x60 inches
Acrylic | Mixed Media on Birch
★★★★★
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