I picked up a piece of 305 Nupastel and did a quick drawing. The light was perfect and the colors on the hillside were exciting.
It was a view of the cliffs of Zion National Park.
I was sitting on a bench outside of the coffee shop doing my daily painting. What happened to the whispering light touch that I advise my students to use? Will it come back? I seem to want to choose a color, make a mark and leave it alone. I don't seem to want to build up layer upon layer of pastel. It seems now that when I have a pastel in my hand I want to put down big bold marks. I don't know if that is a bad thing or not. One of my students told me they noticed that my pastels no longer whisper. 'Wandering West' 6x12 pastel ©Karen Margulis
It may be time! And I will be sharing some of the pearls from Payne's book in a future post. So take out some of those dusty art books that you may have relegated to the shelf and re read them. I was able to slow down and understand what Payne was saying. So when I took it out last week I was pleasantly surprised to discover the pearls of wisdom in the book. True the prose is old fashioned and a bit hard to read but when I first got the book a few years ago.I wasn't even ready to try to decipher the prose. This is a classic must have book but I could never get past the first chapter. Take the book 'Composition of Outdoor Painting' by Edgar Payne. But when we are ready.the moment when it all comes together is simply magic! Sometimes we need to process one concept before we are ready to understand another. We are not always ready to understand everything about painting. So what you may have struggled to understand last year might now make perfect sense. It takes experience and practice for you to really start to understand art concepts. You will undoubtably know more about creating art than when you first read the book. My copy of Edgar Payne's classic book on composition YOU ARE A DIFFERENT ARTIST TODAY THAN YOU WERE YESTERDAY You know these books.the ones that perhaps came highly recommended but when you got them you couldn't get through them? If you have any books like this Now is the time to take them out and read them again! Why you may ask? These books never seem to get put away.Īnd then there are books that I read or tried to read at some point but didn't find them helpful. The ones I always seem to share with my students. I do have my favorite art books.my 'go to' books that I like to read and reread. Well I usually manage to find some nugget of wisdom or inspiration in any book and that's a post for another day. What do I do with all of these books? Some on topics that don't even seem to have anything to do with my mediums. If is is related to art and under $5 I'll probably buy it and add it to my collection. I am always on the lookout for art books in my wanderings through thrift stores.
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