Good work Olga. I find it's usually quite difficult to work with black and white in a painting. This has a nice touch of spontaneity about it, and expresses very well the silence and bleakness of a moonlit winter landscape under snow. Did you paint from memory, or is this a scene from your studio window?
As we're quite interested here in the process of making art, Olga, why not upload some of your sketches?
Here's a nice example of one of your fellow artists. Hillel had uploaded his paintings and then decided to show some of the preparatory studies. In them, he appears to have resolved a lot of the visual structure before moving on to the canvas: [LINK]
That sure is a sombre self portrait Olga. Very different that what I'd usually expect - artists normally paint themselves in strong lighting with a critical or favourable gaze, whereas here you've almost disappeared into the murky cityscape at your back. You're hardly discernable from your surroundings. Will you tell us something about this work?
WINTER
WINTER /55х45/
" Rome "
" Rome "/50x45/
Winter I
Winter I
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26 Dec 12 11:15
Good work Olga. I find it's usually quite difficult to work with black and white in a painting. This has a nice touch of spontaneity about it, and expresses very well the silence and bleakness of a moonlit winter landscape under snow. Did you paint from memory, or is this a scene from your studio window?
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30 Dec 12 17:28
Olga replied here: [LINK]
As we're quite interested here in the process of making art, Olga, why not upload some of your sketches?
Here's a nice example of one of your fellow artists. Hillel had uploaded his paintings and then decided to show some of the preparatory studies. In them, he appears to have resolved a lot of the visual structure before moving on to the canvas:
[LINK]
Winter II
Winter II
Winter
Winter/60x55/
OKTOBER
OKTOBER
Snow
Snow/60x55/
Winter
Winter/60x50/
Distant waking Dream
Distant waking Dream
self-portrait
self-portrait
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30 Dec 12 17:43
That sure is a sombre self portrait Olga. Very different that what I'd usually expect - artists normally paint themselves in strong lighting with a critical or favourable gaze, whereas here you've almost disappeared into the murky cityscape at your back. You're hardly discernable from your surroundings. Will you tell us something about this work?
Pink house
Pink house/45x32/ mixed media
''Pink City''
''Pink City''
''Gien''
''Gien''/80x70/
"Mylene and Serge always together"
"Mylene and Serge always together"