Working on textures!

Hi.

 Klee

 Klimt

Mondrian

Currently we're studying color and value in Design. We're working on concept boards and these are three of the images I'm using. I really love Klee's use of colors and how the yellow counterbalances the blue. I also love Klimt's piece for many reasons ( he's one of my favorite artists. ) I think the dark subtle tones in his work are visually stimulating yet calming at the same time. Mondrian's use of vivid reds and purples though, are almost annoying. I like the piece, but I feel like it's a little difficult to look at, at the same time.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

- Gustav Klimt

Still working on my panel. I added a lot more to the wave and I think it helps balance the lines I don't like. The pointillism on the right though is taking forever.

Making progress on my panel! I'd have more done but I had the flu for about a week. I'm still really unhappy with the lines on the wave... I just feel like they look terrible. But the upside is that I think the drips came out really well.

Comparing two pieces from the Met

Frans Hals

Dutch, Antwerp 1582/83-1666 Haarlem

Portrait of a Man, possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout

Oil on Canvas

Painted around 1636-38

Rembrandt

Dutch, Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam

Hendrickje Stoffels

Oil on Canvas

Painted at different intervals in the years 1655-60

Both of these pieces are Dutch in origin, and come from around the same time period, give or take 20 years. However, they both are extremely different in nature. The lighting, lines, and feeling emanating from both of these pantings differ extremely.

In the painting of Hendrickje Stoffels, you are looking at her, but she is not looking back. There is great use of psychic line and implied line here. The contour of her face and shoulders is very gentle and almost sweet. 

The painting by Frans Hals, however, is almost abrupt in nature compared to Rembrandt's. There is use of line as texture and pattern in his garments. This piece also is composed almost entirely of explicit lines. He is staring at you in an almost jovial fashion, which makes you feel a little bit happy, but a little uncomfortable as well.