Cat watercolor painting needs critique
Jack3000
cat painting. I am finally done and have used most of the suggestions
from the newsgroup discussion, and I think the result came out great
even though the scanned image of the painting may not have came out as
good. (I still have to figure out a good way to copy my work for
presentation purposes on the web.)
Here's the 'before' picture that everyone commented on:
http://www.jack-hand.com/images/art_Charlie.jpg
and the 'after' picture is on this page:
http://www.jack-hand.com/art/
Again thanks for all the advice.
-Jack
p.s. Since I'm done, no need to critque the finished version. But I
won't stop anyone if they'd like to say something positive. ;-)
Andrew D
mr_nic...@yahoo.com (Jack3000) wrote:
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+p.s. Since I'm done, no need to critque the finished version. But I
+won't stop anyone if they'd like to say something positive. ;-)
Good stuff Jack. I'm certain there'd be plenty of people on this group
who'd despise your work because it is quite openly beautiful... so you
just know you're doing something right ;)
Andy D.
"I'm a great speller - but a hopless tpyist!"
bruin70
the reason you feel the painting looks incomplete is because you
brought most of it to a tight finish. therefore anything less would
look partally done. also, the drapery is so prominent with it's square
solid coloring that it DOES make the right side look empty. a better
solution would have been to leave the drapery in an unfinished state.
THAT would have given you permission to do as you pleased on the right
side.
nonetheless, what's left to do would be to bring the whole painting to
a finish. the cat is backlit with a bright window, so this would
allow for a minimal rendering of the right side anyway.......
Jack3000
This painting (http://www.jack-hand.com/art/) was accepted into the
prestigious 60th Annual New Jersey Water Color Society exhibition.