Here are parts of a painting I started and didn’t like the “whole” of. I wanted to do a pastel with teal and copper as the main colors but couldn’t make it what I wanted it to be. I keep telling myself that art is not always about playing it safe. I’m just reluctant to post something I don’t really like – but it was an experiment and I can re-use the Ampersand pastel board. And I may also re-use the effect in the top section in some other work.
And here is a pretty cardinal I was able to photograph today. We are lucky to have so many in our back yard.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Jo C // Dec 3, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Beautiful bird.
The parts of the painting are great. It makes me think it was all good. Did you cut the painting, or just crop the photo??
2 Regina // Dec 3, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Jo – You’re too kind. I just cut the photo. Now I’ll re-use the Ampersand board and maybe re-use the texture design in the top section when I do another painting down the road.
3 Joanna // Dec 4, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I have to agree: the pieces of the painting are very nice.
And, very nice bird shot.
4 Regina // Dec 4, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Joanna – Thank you – with Jo’s suggestions, I may try some changes to see if it is salvageable. I really like the background on the photo of the bird – it would be fun to paint that!
5 Joanna // Dec 5, 2008 at 10:55 am
Lots of bokeh in that photo.
6 Regina // Dec 5, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Joanna – Bless your heart – I never even knew there was a word for that – I looked it up on the off chance it was not something you had made up…
and here it is: a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image.
Example: The bokeh, or quality of the blurred image in the photograph, was described and discussed.
Thank you! Now if I can just remember this word, since it is something I’ve always loved.
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