Acrylic on Canvas
I thought I'd give this another go. I've been reading a lot of back issues of the various art magazines I subscribe to, and my head in now full of more guidance than I can possibly put into practice in any short manner. However, it is helping me pinpoint the things that annoy me about my failures (and it's good to have failures – and insights).
This is starting to look less like a cartoon, and more like a painting. I consider that a good thing, for what that's worth. It's still far from what I was hoping for, but I am discovering why, which is actually a lot of fun. Did I mention that painting was fun before? I sure hope so.
I really like this painting. First of all the lights and darks are perfect. The poses are intriguing. Like that you have them overlapping. Compositionally, I think you have done a super job. Think you have a winner here just as is. Really really good and gets better the more one looks at it.
ReplyDeleteI see why the left side would bug you now that you mention it. Totally missed that because I was enjoying the men. w/their shading & stances. My suggestion: don't crop; you need that space, I think, to imagine what the man looking that way sees. Another person would be too much, imo. So I suggest just carrying the darker tone of those two colors all the way to edge thus getting rid of light tone on edge of painting.
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