Steve Fleming

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Two Demonstrations from this week

Well my blog has been fixed by my wonderful friend Christine and I sure am happy I know her.  Thank you so much.

Here are a couple of demonstrations from my classes this week with the value patterns that I use for the painting. 

Watercolors

Well my blog has been fixed by my wonderful friend Christine and I sure am happy I know her.  Thank you so much.

Here are a couple of demonstrations from my classes this week with the value patterns that I use for the painting.  IMG_136416 x 20 watercolor on 300 lb paper. I was focusing on changing the image to improve the composition.  It is important that you look at your photograph and create a better composition and put your intention and personality into the painting.  I used a black and white value pattern to create movement and a center of interest which was missing from the photograph.

Courson Neighbor

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This is the value pattern that I used for the demonstration, I went through the process of selecting a center of interest, and the photo have multiple options for a focus center.  But I reduced the front grass and moved the building to the left.  I think it is a fun and exciting painting

IMG_1360This simple composition has well conceived small white shape in a large dark middle value area.  I was working on demonstrating large value masses and big to small relationships.

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8 Comments on “Two Demonstrations from this week”

  1. Hey Steve! I recognize that barn, but must admit that I have never seen a painting in it until you did this. 🙂 Love the boat too! I’ve posted it to my Pinterest page under blogs and Tweeted it too! Look forward to seeing you next spring.

  2. Steve…there is a tiny red paint spot at the top of a pole in the barn photo–this looks like something I would do! In fact yesterday in class you asked me why I did it on my little oil painting 🙂 Why did you do this?

  3. what a great surprise to see your blog posts once again-they were missed-thanks for posting the photo referance along with the painting-like how you changed the viewpoint of the barn-the painting really works

  4. what a great surprise to see your blog posts once again – thanks for posting the photo referance along with the painting and the value pattern – I learn about how you changed the viewpoint of the building – I like very much your finished paintings.

  5. what a great surprise to see your blog posts once again – thanks for posting the photo referance along with the painting and the value pattern – I learn about how you changed the viewpoint of the building – I like very much your finished paintings.

  6. Thanks for the comments, the red dot on the pole was to seperate it from the background and create a little contrast it probably should be repeated somewhere else. I did copy it from you Colleen. I am happy to have the blog back up too. I missed it as much as you all did. Thanks Dot for posting my page, you are wonderful.

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