At this point, I think I am comfortable enough with regular portraits to move forward and experiment more this quarter. After my portfolio review, I think I will accept this challenge of creating more dynamic pieces by changing my composition and perspective to make these paintings more unique and stylized.
Here are some pictures I had taken of the fairy lights out on my deck last week, some during a clear skied sunset and others during a cold, cloudy morning.
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”
“A dreamer is one who can find his way only by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
~ Oscar Wilde
“Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter’s identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.”
~ Fernando Botero
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
