Picture Update
I’ve been working on my picture a little. I decided there was no definite direction for the sun. I added some lighter green to the trees on the far edge, which also defined them more. They look very yellow-green in the photos, but they are much more green in person. I rearranged and added some very light grey to the mountains.
For the mid-ground, I thought maybe some bushes. I added 3 to work with but didn’t get very far before I pulled them off.
I thought maybe some flowers in the mid-ground would work. I tried out several colours of sari silk waste.
Softsilk is a brand name, I think. It is shreaded finer than the other sari silk waist I have seen. The pink and the brown are from the same batch of silk waist. I decided the softsilk was the best colour.
Now, I need to figure out the foreground. I may needlfelt and stitch some flowers. I may need to do something to blur the straight line in the sky on the left. I don’t notice it until I take a picture.
16 thoughts on “Picture Update”
The picture is coming along well and your choice of colour to work into the mid ground is just right. The foreground is a lovely colour blend – what colour would you use there for flowers?
Taking a photo of a work-in-progress is a good way to spot anything that doesn’t look right – somehow your eye misses things that the camera lens doesn’t.
Thanks, ladies. I am thinking wight or creamy yellow. I am not sure yet.
It’s funny how you don’t see things until you take a picture. I guess you think you already know what it looks like.
you are absolutly rite!!
using the camera to asses your progress works very well. (phone or tablet work if you dont have a fancy digital camera)
holding your picture up to a merror works too. (reversing the image)
if you have no camera or merror handy, rotate you pictrure so you have the sky closest to you, this works best with a refference photo you have also rotated. it alows the eye to see the relationsips between objcts and the negitive shapes more easily.
the brain tends to say to you, “i know what a (whatever you are work on) Looks like! i dont have to look at it!” when you look at it thrugh a camera or meror the brain focuses on it diferently. even more so when you change the direction you are looking at the image.
these are sneeky art student ticks from years ago, they still work and work better with digital cameras!
if you are having truble with selecting a comosition, try 2 “L” shapes of card stock and move them to crop the image down to what you want to focus on. if you forgot your cardstock you can use your figers to make a quick frame.
Ann your picture is looking good.
From your choices above, I too had mentally selected the soft silk. I like how you have placed it and look forward to your next additions to the foreground.
Camera lenses are good at picking things up….before I actually remember to do that 🤪 I’m usually to be found turning my piece upside down or looking at it in a mirror!
Thank you. the other colours had to much contrast and brightness I think. Yes I do the turning things upside down too. I don’t have a mirror in the studio yet I will have to remember to put one up.
Yes, really coming along nicely, Ann. Those pink flowers look really good now they have been needled into the mid ground.
Foreground? I think I might be inclined to add a few bushes, part needled and part embroidered (for closeup leaves and/or flowers); but I’m sure whatever you decide will work – it usually does.
Ann
Thanks, that silk has make an appearance in many of my pictures. It is amazing how far a little bag of it goes, I have had it for a long time and still have lots. I think probably a flower and maybe some leaves. for the foreground. I will have to have a look through my inspiration pictures to figure out what to do
Your picture is coming along nicely. The mottled color for the mid ground works well. For small pieces like this, I might add a large flower or seed pod with applique and stitching coming from the very bottom. Just not right in the very middle.
Thanks Ruth. I was thinking of a flower angling in from the bottom right. I will have to spend time with my inspiration pictures to decide.
It’s great to follow your thinking as you go along, Ann, and how you develop your ideas. It will be interesting to see your options for the foreground as well as what you decide to do.
thanks. I am leaning towards some flowers but not sure what yet.
I love the colour palette you have chosen for your picture. It reminds me very much of a field that I and my siblings used to spend hours playing in during the summers when we were young.
Thank you . I am glad it brings back happy memories for you.
your landscape is comeing a long wonderfly! great colour choice, i hope i get to see it in person soon. if you are wanting to change your sky just a bit, try wisps of very light greys into maybe hints of the lightest purples to suggest clowds which will give you the dispersed light you like. think thin washes of watercolour pigment so hardly there amounts of wool. if you dont like it you can always remove it!
have fun!
Thanks Jan I will try to remember to bring it next Monday. And maybe a new sample shape.
I love seeing your creative process Ann. These types of posts are like reading a good book, quite a page turner. The softsilk would have been my choice too.
Looking forward to the next chapter.