3 Cool Chickens

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Comment by Riya on July 4, 2012 at 11:08

Hi Linda, thank you for liking my photo's, I really appreciate it ^_^  I like your comment about te cold chickens, I really didn't notice that before, but you're right they look really cold :)) This painting took over a year to finish, but I like it very much. The original photo, autumn 2009, was overcast and it looked very grey. In a former painting of these three chickens I've painted the whole brick wall, brick by brick, more than hundred bricks I think, so this time I just put in a few bricks and I like the way it looks.

Comment by Linda Bishop on July 3, 2012 at 23:58

I love the way you did the brick wall and the chickens look so cold:)

Comment by Riya on May 31, 2012 at 23:31

I just uploaded the exercise, it was fun, and a great help. Now I know that I better start with this kind of drawings. Thank you, Patricia. I'm glad that we've met.

Comment by Patricia Genever on May 31, 2012 at 13:23

Rita, I am very happy to hear that you are starting a colour/value chart.  It will definitely help you figure out your greens.  It's also so much fun too do.  :)))

Comment by Patricia Genever on May 30, 2012 at 20:46

 If you are passionate about art, then indeed you are a real artist.  It is just amazing how our friendship started.  One thing lead to another and here we are helping each other and learning from one another too.  It was all meant to be...  Just by the way, I also speak Afrikaans, which is also a Flemish dialect.  So if it is easier to type in Dutch, I will understand that too..  Ek wou jou al lankal vertel, maar ek het vergeet.  Ek woon nou in Australia en ek praat nie meer my tweede tal nie, so dit is ook helpful om dit die oefen.... 

Comment by Riya on May 30, 2012 at 18:59

Patricia, You are so right, I already learned a lot since I'm a member of this website. And I love to learn new skils and become a real, or at least a better, artist. Maybe I better start thinking as if I'm already a real artist, that should help I think.

Thank you for helping me understand making better paintings. Sometimes I can see that there is something wrong, but I just don't know what it is, and the first exercise helped me and I appreciate it very much. Thank you for your time and critique.

Today is a perfect day for the new exercise, it's way to warm for painting at my room. The only spare room is on the soudside, so a lot of light and very warm. This exercise is a real challenge but I love the idea making different placements.

Comment by Patricia Genever on May 30, 2012 at 13:02

I am very happy to hear that you appreciate my help.  For indeed we learn from one another.  Your comment about my painting has helped me a lot too..  Thank you kindly..

I was going to do the next exercise for you, but I think it will benefit you more, if you do the next exercise yourself too.   The next exercise is about composition, if you chose to try it. 

The object of this exercise is for you to roughly create 3 different placements of your chickens.  Include the brick that the 3 chickens are standing on and also the rooster to the left.  For now only include the rectangle shape, we will do a separate exercise for the bird aviary…   It is important to keep it simple at this stage..

Take an A4 sheet or if you have a drawing book better still.  (I keep all my little exercises in a drawing book mainly to keep them all organized, but also to refer back to them.)

Divide your sheet of paper into 4 equal parts.   Leave the first rectangle at the top of the page blank.  On each of the remaining 3 rectangle shapes,  roughly divide them into thirds horizontally and vertically. 

1. In the first quarter shape,  refer to your original painting and roughly draw only the outline of the shapes into that rectangle.  Do not alter the placement of anything...   It is important to have it exactly as is.

2. In the second quarter shape, draw your previous explanation of how you would move your chickens around, and include only the outline brick rectangle and the rooster, and the outline of the 3 chickens standing on the brick too.

3. After you have drawn in the shapes in the second rectangle take a moment to reflect whether you like that placements and think of ways you could improve it. 

4. Then fill the next 2 rectangles with completely different placements to the first and second rectangle, and see what you can come up with.

When you have completed this exercise at your leisure, would you, please upload your drawing so that I can physically see your exercises, so that we can discuss them.  You may choose either to send it to me in a message or upload it directly to this page.  I will leave that up to you. 





 

Comment by Riya on May 29, 2012 at 19:41

Thanks for your help, Patricia, I really appreciate it.

I did the exercise and I would move the chickens more to the left and a little higher. Then would the right chicken sit in the upperleft focalpoint, and not the chicken in the middle, who's head now is in that spot. 

Comment by Patricia Genever on May 29, 2012 at 15:10

Rita,

I have studied your painting and I can definitely see all the hard work you have put into it.  When I critique, I  come from a place of thinking objectively rather than subjectively.  I also check your work from a technical viewpoint using the principles and elements of design.

To check your compositional division of space,  I made myself a reduced copy of the size of this artwork.  You may wish to try this exercise yourself, to understand this principle.

I copied the measurements of your painting off the screen and transferred those measurements to a plain piece of computer printing paper.  I then folded the small piece of paper into thirds to check where you placed your gorgeous chickens.

Instead of giving you all the answers at once, I have decided to work with you step by step, to give you some reflective time to figure things out too.

If you choose to complete this folding paper exercise, the next question you need to ask yourself is whether you would leave your chickens in the same area or would you move them.  If you do decide to move them, why would you??

Comment by Riya on May 28, 2012 at 19:14

Hi Pauline, thank you for your comment. I was very disappointed when I messed up this painting, because there was that idea in my head of how it should look. I just wouldn't give up, so that's why I didn't ended up in the bin. When I picked it up again I told myself to stop thinking about how it should look, and just start to paint and that helped. The final painting is very different of the first idea that I had, and I really love it.

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