Deborah Secor, a wonderful artist issued a challenge over in the Pastel Forum at Wetcanvas.com. "How LOW can you go?" In other words, try to create a painting with as few strokes as possible. I took the challenge tonight with a little 4 x 6" piece of blue paper, a simple farm scene, somewhat abstracted and tried my hand at aiming for as few strokes as possible.
So, how many strokes do you think it took for this painting? Too many! 80 or thereabout. A good exercise and worthy challenge.
3 comments:
I love the composition and strong values in this. Maybe it is the lack of strokes!
Thank you Pam. These barn scenes are from a drive we took to Michigan this Spring. We saw SO many farms. As I've been looking through all my photos, it's been interesting to distill them down to very minimal, elemental scenes rather than entire farms. I like that approach.
Great use of color! I really like the simplicity you've used to show this scene!
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