In Max Slevogt's Territory 2

30 cm x 40 cm, Oil, Pleinair

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Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 15, 2015 at 2:34: Glad to hear Deb, thanks!

Comment by deb hill on July 15, 2015 at 1:25: Well, that all sounds very intellectual and helpful for many, but in all honesty, I just flat out like this one!

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 13, 2015 at 0:16: Thank you Michael and Aurelia for your explanations! It seems the pattern composition is what often comes to my mind first and my brain goes: no not again!

After all the frustration at the aftermath with Artrage let me finish with some nonsense joking:

"In conclusion, Ruckstuhl has chosen a pattern composition, one of the most challenging design concepts in the visual arts to take us with him into the German vinyards. The more we are irritated by these overtuned colors initially, the more we will be impacted later on. We feel with the artist that there is no other possible way to ever describe the joy of being in a sunlit landscape but to exagerate.
Estimated price: 50£
Recommendation: buy"

The Royal Collector ;-)

Comment by Aurelia Sieberhagen on July 12, 2015 at 22:12: Thanks for explaining pattern composition, Michael. I also did not know that. I love the work of Edgar Payne! I love ArtRage. It is a big problem solver for me as well. And you don't always have to paint what you see. Here is a quote out of the VAA notes about exaggeration:

Principle Exaggeration: In order to strengthen the impact of your painting and to better communicate your concept, you may need to exaggerate some elements in the painting. You can exaggerate proportions, certain colors, contrast and brushwork. Exaggeration is similar to the principle of emphasis, but takes it further by actually distorting the three relationships of shape, color and edges.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 12, 2015 at 11:01: Hi Thomas. A pattern composition is a harmonious arrangement of the landscape elements that do not conform to one of the geometrical or "conventional" compositional motifs. In other words ..a composition that is neither a steelyard, circle, triangle, S, O, Tunnel, diagonal, group mass, pyramid, radiating line, L, etc. The 2 examples that Aurelia gave you for your greens, are interestingly enough .. examples of "Pattern Composition". According to Edgar Payne, pattern composition is the most effective, but the most difficult to pull off....successfully.

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 12, 2015 at 6:59: Thanks a lot Jessica and Jon! The painting is happy the painter less. I fizzled 5 hours on Artrage trying to understand the atmospheric fade of the light greens. One finding is that my eyes can hardly distinguish differnt saturations in this spectral range. I am not even sure if this is the problem of the overtuned sweet look. Sure is that this subject is one of my favorites and the Slevogt Territory series is going to be long ;-)

Comment by Jessica Futerman on July 12, 2015 at 4:22: Such good brushwork - like the way you keep the colours clean & lay down the strokes; all your hard work is paying off as it looks very confident.

Comment by Jon Main on July 12, 2015 at 4:03: Good light effect - a happy painting!

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 12, 2015 at 1:06: Thanks Aurelia for posting these. When you compare the color variations of those paintings and mine, you will find that the variations in mine is higher. I am speaking of individual fields of the same plants of course. In my case there are only vineyards and we can assume that it is not neccessary to introduce other plants to make the painting less sweet. (It's mostly dry wine anyway ;-) i have been playing with artrage for three hours now and it appears that the sweet look has much to do with too high saturations and inadequate color shift for the fields in the distance.

Comment by Aurelia Sieberhagen on July 11, 2015 at 22:35: Yes, I agree; it is a bit sweet. Your green is to much the same everywhere. Look at these paintings. You need more of a variety of greens and as you said, more passive areas as well. I think you will find some paintings on Michael's page as well.

Nice idea of Picasso drawing on his checks. Will remember that when my work is famous! ;-)