WHOOPS... rendering.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just one word of caution,Brian. Watercolor is an exacting media to
> control.
>
> Unlike drawing, or any of the opaque painting medias, there is virtually
> no
>
> going back over a watercolor rending to repair and error. Just my .02
> cents.
>
> (I jhad ust posted a comment on the photog aspect in the original post,
> and
>
> then I saw this one.
>
> Rick
> .
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your thoughts, folk..
>>
>> Interesting that there seems to be a bit of resonance here and there.
>>
>> I hope I can open the cat-flap if I bump into it.
>>
>> And, no - painting over a photographic print just wouldn't cut the
>> mustard.
>>
>> Not one of the galleries I would hope to be exhibited in would look even
>> once at such work from me.
>>
>> I know of one local artist who photographs very old gold-miner
>> rock-shelter
>> cabins ( 150+ years old) and paints over the unattractive/distracting
>> surroundings on quite small prints, to bring the attention right on to the
>> cabin(s). But that's not the same. And she exhibits only/mainly in a
>> gallery
>> run by a collective of which she is part. has inside running, so to speak.
>>
>> What I would use photographic prints for is (a) help provide an accurate
>> outline of the essential structural elements in the picture, and (b) help
>> get
>> the colour / shading just right. Both for when I got home and worked on
>> the
>> real painting. But we all know how colour temperature can play havoc with
>> "true colour rendition".
>>
>> When creating a "painted over" photographic print, one would have to bear
>> in mind that this is called mixed media.
>>
>> I have in mind true water colour paintings. That's what has sold in the
>> past
>> and continues to sell.
>> Look at ... http://www.http://bensart1.homestead.com/
>>
>> Whatever you might think of his paintings, people like them and buy them.
>>
>> Mixed media paintings usually also are associated with 'avant guarde'
>> painters ... I'm not going down that road, for now.
>>
>> Brian Swale.
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