I carried on with the painting I started yesterday with the Facebook Cheese and Wine Painting Club. It’s van Gogh’s Starry Night and it’s far more complex than I’d realised. I did an hour and a half yesterday and two hours today and still a ways to go. Sparta Puss joined me for a while.
I’m using Liquitex acrylic heavy body paint onto a Winsor & Newton canvas. It’s weird painting, not something I normally do, but it’s so interesting to analyse a famous artwork and see what has gone into it. I uploaded a better image of Starry Night today and saw loads more detail in it.
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Watch out for stray paw prints…
Everything that has ever been cemented around here has her paw prints in it!
You’ve certainly captured his style. Don’t try cuting your ear off, though!
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Trying to unlock someone’s style is a real challenge. While Van Gogh did have to work out what he was going to paint, the doing, while always a challenge, was at least more innate in him.
If it would be of any help, or interest, I did take a number of detail shots of some of his other paintings when I visited the Kroller Muller Museum in the Netherlands.
That’s the issue – an artist’s style is, as you say, innate. Copying is far more laboured. But I’m learning loads.
Talent will out. I imagine it’s really not easy to copy someone else’s work
No, it isn’t, but it’s a very useful technical exercise, earning loads…