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mynti — Kauterskill Clove Doodle
Published: 2011-07-06 23:47:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 1691; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 0
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I am trying memory doodles again. This time, I looked for 10 minutes at "Kauterskill Clove" by Sanford R. Gifford, and painted what I could from memory in an hour.. Here is the result. I find this challenges my color memory, my analyzation of shapes, and my sense of scale when I work this way...It's not easy, but it's great to hone the eye and brain to remember particular details!
Acrylic on Canvas, 5"x5"
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fair play, such a small scale, you've got a pocket-sized wonderworld there...amazing stuff...i aspire!!
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Thank you! I enjoy such small acrylics!
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This is beautiful. Is it a painting you looked at? Never heard of the painter.
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I was inspired by this painting I saw in a book, although I have misremembered a lot of the original painting in my doodle. The color scheme, however, is very similar.
He is a hudson river school painter, I have a book about them, and I plan to do more for study.
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Thank you.
I have heard a lot about the hudson river school lately. I think I should check them out.
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I have admired their works, since I am in the same area and am exposed to much of their work in our museums. I have been studying their paintings since I was a little girl. 
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Beautiful, 
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I closed the book, and lost myself in remembering.
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would love to see how you done it,
do you ever video yourself or do a tutorials?
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My camera records 16 minutes per SD card, so I would need several SD cards to break up the video.. I hope to, at one point, get a video camera so I can make real video tutorials. 
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This is really lovely, and I find it amazing that you did it from memory alone c:
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Wow, seems like a fun way to try to improve memory 
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... I'm not familiar with the original but I love your palette choices, very warm and inviting...
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Very similar. Of the grandeur and the particulars, I did not fare so well, but the colors seem pretty spot on.
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... haha, getting "grandeur" on a 5x5 piece of canvas is not an easy task but you seemed to have done it quite well!
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True... I do not like to use a big canvas for such exercises though
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... your practices are as lovely as your finished works, thanks for inspiring me...
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Thank you so much for being inspired! What did you do today?
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... heh-heh, worked a little on a presentation package for THIS ...
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Cool! You should try kickstarter.com, they do stuff like that!
Good luck, I hope your project is a success!
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... thank you so much for your support! I've been a witness to one awesome success story on Kickstarter where a Celtic folk band (a quartet of talented friends) wanted to record and produce their own studio CD, they posted a limit of $4500 and actually earned more than $4800 by the deadline [link] which gave them the opportunity to donate the residual to the Red Cross and Japan's Tsunami relief fund...
... what I'm working on is a bit different, I have to convince a city council I know how to produce suitable public art that won't insult someone's intelligence or provoke gang violence, build it under budget and on time with $80K of the city's own money... I'm not really a suit-n-tie person but I'd easily play corporate dressup for this project if I knew it helped (and I think it does) and I definitely have the project management experience for it, I just wonder if they would buy off on 5 gigantic Slinky sculptures waltzing down a popular bike path...
... for some reason Seattle seems to like oversized objects as sculpture, which includes the Oldenburg typewriter eraser and the recent 8' Cherry Popsicle , I'm thinking maybe I have half a chance...
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I think you have a shot. Keep up the dedication and you will see it done! Take pictures for us when it's up.
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Well I think your memory is certainly in tact. It looks amazing. It really does. And acrylic is a difficult medium. This is impressive.
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Thank you... I think encaustics and airbrushing are more difficult, but it could simply be that I am feeling a bit more comfy in acrylic!
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Seriouly loving the color pallete you picked here. (I love orange~) And that water fall is so pretty! Mynti, have you ever tried to copy a style from another period. Like say, paint like an impressionist, or classical artist? I want to see it!
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This is my first endeavor into painting another artist's ideas, and while it is from another time period, you will see that I paint how I paint, and it always comes out like I do it.. I don't know why that is, I guess it's my hand.
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Ah, well, you have a comfortable style, and it looks good! Better then I could do. I had a painting teacher that made us try many different styles. I don't know if abstract counts as a style, but that was my least favorite...I admired impressionists, which this painting reminds me of a little. (probably the pallette) It's still a very nice painting, and a really cool idea to paint from memory like that...you think you have a great photographic memory until you try something like that!
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Oh I never deluded myself into thinking I had a photographic memory luckily... I just haven't tried to improve it until recently.
I have been having some nice surreal dreams I would like to paint, but i keep forgetting the particulars before I am fully awake enough to paint, so I am attempting to improve my painting memory here so I can get better at painting my dreams.
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Dream painting sounds beautiful, sometimes I dream really vividly but can never remember the pictures either. Though, I just watched some star wars and some of the scenes seemed really lovely and artistic...made me want to attempt landscapes some more.
You should try that trick of keeping the dream journal next to your bed...or maybe day dreaming? Sometimes I'm able to recall things in my daydreams.
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I already do keep a dream journal, yep, full of about 200 sketches. But I mean the particulars of color and shape, that I am struggling with in these memory paintings, are what I struggle with in my dream paintings too: accuracy of all aspects of the dream is difficult, and more difficult than looking at a still image, because dreams move and change so easily, it's hard to remember just one image enough to paint it well.
But these memory doodles are exercises to make my mind sharper at just that... in the hopes that one day, my dream paintings will be good enough for me to make a masterpiece out of them! (Because some of my subconscious ideas are cool!)
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Can't wait to see your dream paintings some day!! My subconscious is lazy and not creative. 
Have you ever done a painting with just the palette knife? Always my favorite way. If you have, I want to see it! And if you haven't...it's your next challenge I guess!
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The rest is fine too!, don't be harsh on you, you are very talented. And the fact that you seek ways to train yourself to become better will take you very far.
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One can only try. Thanks to support from my friends, family, and well-wishers, I continue to push myself.
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You definetly have my support as well..
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Very Monet-ish, you capture a very rich colour palette in your memory. Nice work
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Thank you! I love color most of all; perhaps why it's the only thing that sticks! The rest seems terribly off.
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This looks really great! especially drawing from only your memory!
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Thanks! It's a good challenge to keep you sharp!
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yeah it sounds like a cool thing to try is it hard to do?
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Incredibly difficult at first, but gets easier the more you do it. (Like all else, I suppose) I have not posted many memory doodles.
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