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TheGreatMC — Grinding to a new level - Jastarnia - watercolour
Published: 2014-08-05 19:50:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 1048; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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*Now also up on Tumblr: maciulek.tumblr.com/post/93979…- - -
*Based upon a shot from Google street view, ul. Ogrodowa within Jastarnia, a fisherman settlement-turned-summer resort.
This is part one of my newest improvement drive - one consisting of using scenery that actually exists to find out just how much I need to push my usage of colour tones and patterns to escape my unpleasant habit of drawing/painting overly light and bleak settings.
So far I had a lot of trouble with figuring out what I can afford to smear all over the paper before it becomes too heavy - and the only remedy for that is to directly reference how colour and light behave in nature. To that end, I picked a series of shots/individual photographs that Google Earth contains around satellite maps of the small Pomeranian township of Jastarnia - primarily due to familiarity of that settlement, as out of the established go-to summer destinations around Poland it is the one that I visited most often.
So much for a start and I already see that there is a rough road before me.
There is also (an intended) part two of the aforementioned improvement drive - only this time B&W technique will be tested against existent nature.
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Very nice.
I've been doing some street view studies myself, but digitally, and I've heard people say that it's better to learn colour out in the open as opposed to drawing from photos. The reasoning is that cameras record colour in a particular way that doesn't necessarily reflect the true colour of the scene. This is all from a few posts at conceptart.org. I couldn't find much other stuff about it.
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Nothing beats drawing/painting from nature experienced first-hand, as far as excercise goes. 
. . .But to stay true to such a declaration I will need to scrounge up some time to organize life-painting practice for myself. So it seems that the next few essential steps are in plain view.
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Houses have so bricky and rough walls that it seems to be really natural *_*
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Only upon painting this piece I have realised just how much details I kept leaving out of focus for all these years.
Better now than never, I suppose.
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It always has been a good ability to criticize yourself
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Looks nice, if viewed from a distance you could mistake it for a real picture.
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It seems that the principle is valid, then.
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