I plan to post current paintings on my blog site. I'm not much of a writer but I do love to paint. I do oils and pastels and I teach workshops. I plan to sometimes post demos and talk about how to create a painting as well.
Please check out my website at www.alineordman.com
Thursday, June 14, 2012
This is the painting demo from Monday. Starting from the bottom as the beginning of the painting, I start with the big basic shapes and create detail within those shapes. Though these were white Peonies, no pure white was used.
No pure white was used, & no flowers were harmed in the execution of this piece...Aline, this is gorgeous. And so simple! 1-2-3 & there you go. (So why don't mine turn out like this...?) Really, Aline, the looseness of this piece is what makes it so charming & yet so bold,too. It's like magic to see the 3 panels go from masses of color to 'detailed' flowers. Thanks for letting us see the progression; it's very instructive. You seem to use oils like pastels & vice verse--working in the two different 'mediums' gives you a really distinctive style:beautiful colors, scumbling one color over the other,knowing viewers LIKE to 'fill in' what's left unsaid. I think one of your greatest talents is knowing when to STOP. That is what is bold & arresting. If you did this picture in pastel, would you develop it in pretty much the same way as you show us in these 3 panels? Mass in the big areas, then pick out the details, except using soft pastels? Gosh, this picture is beautiful, Aline. Do you choose a palette for a picture prior to starting? You've got a warm ochre(?)covering the canvas since the flowers are cool 'whitish.' The vase is hue of 'Aline Coral'--often an earth tone in your pics, a deep hue was the sweater color on the clothes line that saved your last pastel--'Aline Coral.'Then, electric blue to wake it all up! Color choice is probably an unconscious act to you now, I'll bet. Anyway, thanks so much again for including 3 stages of picture making. You're fantastic! L&K, MaryB
Hi Mary Always love your commets! Thanks! I do pastels and oils very similarly which is why I can teach them simultaneously. I don't pre choose a palette but I think I do work pretty consistently with the same one. Thanks again. Aline
This is the painting demo from Monday. Starting from the bottom as the beginning of the painting, I start with the big basic shapes and create detail within those shapes. Though these were white Peonies, no pure white was used.
A beautiful floral, Aline! Gorgeous colors. Thank you for sharing the process.
ReplyDeleteThank you Hilda!
ReplyDeleteVery very nice aline.
ReplyDeleteNo pure white was used, & no flowers were harmed in the execution of this piece...Aline, this is gorgeous. And so simple! 1-2-3 & there you go. (So why don't mine turn out like this...?)
ReplyDeleteReally, Aline, the looseness of this piece is what makes it so charming & yet so bold,too. It's like magic to see the 3 panels go from masses of color to 'detailed' flowers. Thanks for letting us see the progression; it's very instructive.
You seem to use oils like pastels & vice verse--working in the two different 'mediums' gives you a really distinctive style:beautiful colors, scumbling one color over the other,knowing viewers LIKE to 'fill in' what's left unsaid. I think one of your greatest talents is knowing when to STOP. That is what is bold & arresting.
If you did this picture in pastel, would you develop it in pretty much the same way as you show us in these 3 panels? Mass in the big areas, then pick out the details, except using soft pastels?
Gosh, this picture is beautiful, Aline. Do you choose a palette for a picture prior to starting? You've got a warm ochre(?)covering the canvas since the flowers are cool 'whitish.' The vase is hue of 'Aline Coral'--often an earth tone in your pics, a deep hue was the sweater color on the clothes line that saved your last pastel--'Aline Coral.'Then, electric blue to wake it all up! Color choice is probably an unconscious act to you now, I'll bet. Anyway, thanks so much again for including 3 stages of picture making. You're fantastic! L&K, MaryB
Hi Mary
ReplyDeleteAlways love your commets! Thanks! I do pastels and oils very similarly which is why I can teach them simultaneously. I don't pre choose a palette but I think I do work pretty consistently with the same one.
Thanks again.
Aline