seven/ ten

 i’ve been trying to get back to that feeling in first two eaton-studies i did (from these two posts: 23 august and 24 august) but it’s not going very well. i think maybe the value studies contain too much detail still. when i look at the first few value studies i did, there was less stuff. nothing to really distract me from the stuff that actually matters: value and shape.

that is all there’s to it. so where do i distract myself, and why? it’s not like charles warren eaton was a realist. the details are suggestions: they aren’t actually there.

something to keep in mind for tomorrow’s drawings.

today i did a value study that i thought wasn’t good enough (it might just be too complicated a painting for me; it's the one called moonlight at the canal in bruges), so i didn’t do a drawing of that study; i took yesterday’s sketches & did another drawing of that particular landscape, a little bigger. it’s a bit boring. i don’t like the foreground. but i did learn something from today’s effort, i think.