it's something i'm very interested in right now. it's something that is always interesting to me, actually. this realisation feels important, because i've always been obsessed by that idea that one should have a style, a favourite medium, etcetera.
and i'm impressionable.
i'm working on it.
maybe my interests are a bit boring and oldfashioned. look at what i'm doing right now; mostly *just* value studies with colored pencils (i adore the sepia and burnt sienna and burnt ochre and brown ochre luminance-pencils: there are three of each, a light a middle and a dark) & sometimes an oil pastel landscape.
this one was inspired by a landscape by the artist j. francis murphy; a november morning (1913). he was a tonalist. i'm really interested in that movement right now. it's mostly landscapes without humans (well, murphy's painting seems to contain a few tiny persons but i ignored them) & colours are subdued because the scenes depicted take place around sunset. they're very dusky and dark & i love them.
that means the colours might also be boring to some, but i'm in love.
i would like to try to match the colours in the actual painting. warmer greens & some browns. and i definitely need more practice on skies. i also do not like the treeline.
i do like the fuzzy feeling of the colored pencil-study. where trees end and the sky begins.
(do we really know where trees end and skies begin, ever?)
it's actually one of the things that attracted me most about tonalism: the presence of trees and the way they often are so gorgeously, almost abstractly, placed within wide and open landscapes. those landscapes are the ones i love most of all: faraway horizons, fields, solitary trees.
(i really really wanted to buy myself a book about tonalism called a history of american tonalism 1880-1920 by david a. cleveland. it is very, very expensive. & then my parents offered to help me out so now i own a copy... it's beautiful.)
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i guess what i meant to say is that it feels good to kind of have a specific area of interest.
