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Comment by Bernadett Budavári on August 14, 2010 at 7:42

Dear Peggy, thanks very much. It was a challenge. I am planning to paint it again and see what comes out of it now that I know a bit more.

Comment by Peggy Guichu on August 14, 2010 at 3:12

I just love this painting. You've managed to take one color and discover all of its family. This is a very inviting and a place I would enjoy experiencing.

Comment by Roena King on August 14, 2010 at 3:03

I bought the RtBrain book and workbook and did all the exercises. // Tole painting did one thing good for me. It gave me such good brush control - I used to say I could do anything with a brush. // Teaching is a good learning because your students will come across problems that you never encountered before and you have to figure out how to solve them - without the knowing that it is a "new one" for you! ha ha // Motorhome is 36' long with 2 TV, separate living area, kitchen, bath, bedroom. The bedroom can be closed off with a door so one can go to bed and one can stay up and watch TV or read. We love this life of travel and seeing new places. The USA is one big country and takes a long time to see it all. We keep repeating our travels going back to the same area at times to visit family. We move around weekly in the summer (a fast track life) and slow down more the rest of the year moving every 3 weeks to several months. No, no home base - we sold everything we owned and moved into the RV. We have all we need, but only 1 set of dishes, etc. Money wise the travel is not bad as you move about slowly and short distances. We are not in any hurry, and want to really explore each area before moving on. // Truly love living and traveling all the time. Many of my paintings are from the places we visit and my photos. // You are so blessed to be able to show your work. My thought is when you show and start winning that is how you start getting known. I am glad for you. // You mentioned you were a teacher. What do you teach and who do you teach? Ro

Comment by Bernadett Budavári on August 13, 2010 at 20:01

You did???? That is sooo funny! Well, when I did the course I didn't think about whether I am interested in people or not, I just wanted to try it out. Drawing people was like an exercise. (Otherwise no, I am not interested in painting people.... ) What I would suggest for you is just do some of the exercises that seems interesting. Some of them really can turn on the right brain. And also, I was a "greeny" when I did the course, your case is different, you are an experienced artist.
I had to look up what tole painting is. Seems very creative! Interesting way of "learning'", I think teaching is a good way of learning :-) at least I found that when I was a teacher.
You are living in a motorhome? And for how long are staying in one area? Do you have a "base" where you go back to? In Hungary it would be pretty hard - for a Hungarian. Money-wise and otherwise too. Our country is small and would travel accross the country really fast :-) Do you enjoy living like that?
I had an exhibition from the graphite and pastells shortly after I started drawing, my boss organized it actually at my workplace :-) And recently we had an amateur painters's exhibition that was organized from a forum on the net. I had 3 pictures on that one.

Comment by Roena King on August 12, 2010 at 2:48

I am laughing my hear off!!!!! I just did the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain!!!!! I only went 1/2 way and quit when I got to the part about people. I am not interested in doing people (although I have done some before-oil paintings - so I know how to do it - out of practice). I want to be a color/landscape artist and I am trying hard not to get side tracked doing other types of paintings. I just yesterday loaded some of my drawings, although not all of the Rt Brain exercises. // R U REALLY interested in doing people? // I took a class in tole painting. We moved to a new small town and I started teaching tole painting. I got interested in "regular" oil painting and just took my students right into oil painting too. I started water color and took the same students into water color too. I started opaque watercolor and taught the same students that too! LOL I took a class in portraits in prisma colored pencils, but never really did much after the class. My life got changed and I taught our son school 7, 8, 9 grades. Then I started working for the first time out of the home (before I only raised our 2 children (girl and boy). In 1998 we retired and started traveling and living in a RV motorhome. I started painting a year a half ago again. I picked up oils and really did not remember anything about how to go about it. I still had all my supplies and brushes. // I am a self taught artist and only had the opportunity to take a very few classes. Self taught in oils and WC, but I did take a workshop to learn the opaque WC using white gauache. // I taught in a very small town in Texas were we lived for 23 years. // I had one woman shows in the local bank. The bank let my students have shows too. Sometime small towns can be good. // Oh, I learned to paint by copying good art.

Comment by Bernadett Budavári on August 11, 2010 at 18:50

That is a very good idea! If you can specify something, you will be able to relate it to other, similar things and also a good associating exercise. Like people often see shapes of animals or faces in the clowds, you can do the same with shadows or bushes. I will try that.
I don't know if I told you but I got into drawing and painting after doing the course on "how to draw with using the right side of the brain." I am left handed, for many things I am using both hands, can mirror-write, upside down, from right to left, with both hands at the same time etc.etc. have been playing the piano so I was used to use my right brain, but somehow I felt there was a block on drawing. I tried but didn't get very far... so I did the course and it unblocked something, and since then I draw, did pastels and then started painting. One exercise that we did (it is a 4 day-long course), that we drew the negative shapes of a drawing, and we also did some drawings looking at the picture upside down so we could not see the actual figure. It was very interesting and turned out great! The Keanu Reeves picture that you can see on my website was done on the 3rd day of the course.
And how did you start? Did you learn? Where did you teach?

Comment by Roena King on August 11, 2010 at 2:50

I think that bushes and trees are one of the harder things to paint and make look 3D and flully. It is all in getting 3 good values. I do a lot of research when I am doing something. You might look for paintings that have good bushes and trees and see how the artist did his. Look at them "for a long time" and "talk to yourself" about what you see. NO KIDDING! I used to teach painting long, long ago and I would tell my students that if they could name something they could paint it. For instance, the "shape of a shadow or highlight". That part looks like a butterfly wing......you can paint a butterfly shape in your shadow. This part looks like a "H" with a long curve to the right on the end. When I break things down into little sections and try to make similar shapes that I can put a name to it just seems to work out for me. You might give that a try. Pay attention to each bush and paint the painting bush by bush like a puzzle. All the pieces fit together and make the picture. Hopes my silly way to thinking helps. LOL Ro

Comment by Bernadett Budavári on August 10, 2010 at 19:48

Thanks! I had soooo much trouble with this one! I made it form a photo. It actually have a lot of colors mixed up, that's why it got a bit dull. I am planning to paint it again.
Again, thanks for the advice.
I just read a letter from Richard as an answer to a question from someone - if you can make lights by glazing, and he said that it give some opaque look if you do that. And this is what I did here too, putting some white on it, instead of mixing the right colors.
The picture (the photo) otherwise is very nice.

Comment by Roena King on August 10, 2010 at 13:05

Boy, from the very first one you had some nice things going on! Great water, reflections, and distant mountains. One thing that might help is to go outside, and look at the bushes up close to you (how much detail-can you see the leaves and branches up close), next look just down the street (how much changed? You see color, but not each tree leaf), now look far off (everything is a blur of color). With those thoughts in mind - the 2 trees on the right could have more detail. After you do those - judge the trees on the far side of the pond. They might be ok. The distant ones are great. You did so well for your first painting. I say you have a lot of "artist" in you! Ro