Some of my readers are asking me about the paintings in The Firts Session Paintings, a while ago. I thank them for it. I am having some difficulties, finishing (or continuing) these paintings. Painting is harder than I thought it would be. Large paintings (at least for me they are large) frighten me. I think I can do more than I really can. These paintings in the last post are still there. They will be finished. Some day. It looks if I am complaining, but I am not. I am enjoying painting. A lot. But I wish I could do more than I am doing. The bar is set to high for me. I only want to get better in painting. I wrote this before, but this is my story, so far. Many times I find myself looking at, and thinking about the paintings I am working on. Asking myself questions. What’s the next step? Which parts could be better? Should I change things? This process sometimes takes several days, untill I know what to do. In that time I don’t paint. I stare at paintings. That is why I started a new painting project: a weblog called: ’Holland in Small Oils’. Little paintings of landscapes, still lifes and whatever comes to mind. This is my answer to that “thinking-process”. Find the answers to my painting problems. And, because I feel that, no matter what, I should paint every day. When I paint every day, it will improve my skills, and I will make better paintings. It is a (almost daily) two or three hour exercise. I seem to have less problems doing small paintings, I feel comfortable with these kind of exercises. When I produce a lot of these little paintings, I think I can go back and produce some larger ones. At least, I will learn new things and will get more experienced. Go, and take a look, I hope you will join me and be a part of my learning process. Give me some comment and support. I really need it. Tell me what is good, tell me if what's wrong. Some day I will conquer myself. This weblog will stay here and I will post some new things, but not for now. For now, I will concentrate myself on the small paintings. Above, on the image, you see the track I am walking on. A track that leads to an unknown area. But I will explore the field before me. I will go for it! - Jiddje
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Je bent niet de eerste of de enige die moeite heeft met 'groot'. No problem - het is geen 'must'. Ik doe hetzelfde als jij; somes schilder ik niet maar denk na over waar 't naartoe gaat, want schilderen zonder plan komt meestal uit met teleurstelling.
Ik vind je dit kleine schilderijtje met de onverharde weg erdoor erg mooi en leuk.
Keep going!
glad to hear you will go for it!
Het is een intrigerend en leuk proces, Sophie. En je maakt hele mooie schilderijen. Bekijke je blog regelmatig! Mooi werk.
Thanks Rhonda! I will, I will!
Really like this! So many different greens...amazing.
I love the miles of space in this painting and the brilliance of the greens. As a painter I find that landscape paintings are the most difficult for me.
If you are having difficulty with a change of scale, try making the change in small increments and work up to a large scale slowly. It might be less daunting. But having that many paintings going at once is the best way to work. Great work. Good luck!
Thanks Davida for your comment! I was thinking: when I paint small oils with small brushes, should I paint large paintings with only large brushes? The bigger the painting the bigger the brushes. I was wondering about that.
Sophie, Rhonda, Gwen, thanks a lot
Yes, Jiddje,
Big brushes for big paintings at least at first. You will probably never use brushes as small as you use for your small paintings.
The kind of stroke you like in the small paintings probably comes from the wrist. The big paintings require strokes from the whole arm.
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