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RE: Icarus in Training - new painting
Excellent piece Leo! Really nice and straight forward composition and I'm impressed, how you gave the figure such strong bird like characteristics.
Love the early morning colors of the sky, emphasizing the theme of a new dawn.
Thanks Reinhard. I'm really putting the focus on colour with my work now. I really need to master the subtleties of colour, light effects colour, colour effects dimension.
As humans, we identify with human form. We express ourselves with it. Thereby, if we use the human figure in our work, we can communicate ideas directly and people will understand, regardless of spoken language and most culture. It is universal, because the human form is universal to us.
Yes, the color aspect alone is such a big thing to master. Working on glass helped me quite a bit with transparent pigments, which I really love... to the point, that I almost neglect the other ones, which do have their place in the painting.
You mentioned the palette in another post, and I was kinda curious, what your preferences are... although I respect every artist who's not ready to share such things... being a bit secretive about my stuff too ;-)
Absolutely agree, with what you say about the human form, but... not sure if I'm making sense... you bent it in a form that would make one instantly think of the posture of a bird (and I'm not only talking of the arms) that the theme of "flight" is imminent
I see no harm mentioning the tubes of paint I use, but which on which point on the canvas, I won't say. How and what I mix, an artist has to work out for themselves otherwise they are learning nothing. It is what I have to do when I examine artworks of others, or translate a reference into the painting.
I work mostly with earth tones these days. Discovering Apelles Palette as the fundamental starting point of all of the Master Painters set me in this direction. The key is a limited palette with mostly dirty colours.
Cadmium Yellow, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Kasseler Brown, Van Dykes Brown, Paynes Grey, Ultramarine, Prussian Blue, Titanium White.
I may vary this selection slightly for each painting.
With the figure, I did modify it slightly to invoke the impression of flight and take off.