Wednesday, December 8, 2010

North Tower Study


I got a request to see my pencil study for North Tower Nocturne, so here it is. I think you can see some of the compositional struggle here.

2 comments:

  1. Can't believe that you do those amazing paintings from little black and white pencil sketches - no color studies? I was looking at another artists blog and he showed multiple color studies for a painting explaining that once he resolves the color study, he can just have fun painting and isn't burdened by having to make color choices while painting.

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  2. For me knowing the final values comes first and the color comes second. If you get the values right, the painting usually works. Not that color isn't important, but I do so much wet-in-wet that it wouldn't be possible to follow a specific color study. So I have fun experimenting with color as I follow my values road map during the final painting

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