26 December 2009

New Art


Did I mention that I was taking Carmen Torbus' online workshop, Spill It!? I think I did ... Anyway, here are my efforts at Lesson Four. The point wasn't to copy her painting, but to let our own style shine through. Unfortunately, I don't yet know what my style is. What I do know is that I love the way Carmen paints; her style really resonates with me, so she really influenced what I came up with.





Carmen writes with lots of "inky drippy goodness" on her paintings and I love it! But when I tried it, I didn't like it as well on my painting. In the second one, I left the canvas flat while I wrote to minimize the drips. I love the look of writing with a dip pen -- I'll definitely be working with my dip pens to "perfect" this technique!



This painting is still very much in Carmen's style, but I felt a bit more free as I worked on it. It was inspired by an Untitled painting of Carmen's (Sorry, I couldn't get a direct link to it). I had more fun with this one than I did with the previous two, so I think I may be edging more into my own style here. I'll definitely be working on more paintings like this one.

2 comments:

Sherry said...

You've done so well with these Cindy! Your style? It emerges as you go...you can be influenced by many artists and I don't see any of these as being exactly like Carmen's...these are Cindy's all the way!

Great colour choices and I really like the 3rd one!

Carmen said...

Love these Cindy!!! Especially the last one. I can see you "let go" a little and just let it emerge!

Happy New Year!

xo,
Carmen