Painting Rocks in Landscapes
Painting rocks in landscapes can either be easy, or
very difficult if you get over whelmed by detail in them.
But this time,
I ran into a boulder which had a formation I was completely unfamiliar with.
I didn't do too badly with the first under painting of them.
But as I progressed, my mind kept seeing rows of shingles like cedar shakes lined up on the side of a house.
I was totally frustrated...
Finally, a good friend of mine who has a much better understanding of geology,
explained to me that the rocks are really a series of vertical rock
divided by stress fissures that give them the appearance of being individual rocks.
Once I had an understanding of that concept, this is the results.
Now they looked more like the original.
One thing I thought of after wards was to use a trick I learned many years ago.
When you turn a picture upside down you use your creative right side of the brain and you can take over the control of what you actually see rather than what your logical left brain thinks you see.
Judy
When you turn a picture upside down you use your creative right side of the brain and you can take over the control of what you actually see rather than what your logical left brain thinks you see.
Judy
Posted by Judy Filarecki at 4/14/2010 8:30 PM 
Categories: landscapes, painting rocks, painting
Tags: landscapes painting rocks painting
Categories: landscapes, painting rocks, painting
Tags: landscapes painting rocks painting
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