Challenge Group member Robin Cheers came up with this little doozy for us and instructed us to: "Set a timer for 30 MINUTES. And start painting!! When the timer dings, chirps, rings, beeps, whatever, you are DONE. Stand back and see what you accomplished! The idea is of course, to get in as much as you can - to mass in, to respond quickly to what you see and not analyze. You can work big or small."
My first attempt, a small rough portrait sketch, was hardly worth showing after 30 minutes, so I tried again. Thirty minutes is not long to get much blocked in. I considered doing a quick little sky study. I've painted some simple landscapes for Quick-Draw events in an hour. I thought maybe I could get the basics painted in half that time, with absolutely no detail.
I also considered that I had tried some oil sketches at our figure drawing salon. They were pretty rough, even from our longest poses of 20 minutes. So I thought I'd try a quick figure study in oil. Thirty minutes is just enough time to block in the form's shadows and shapes, then add a few highlights.
"Glance Back"
Oil on canvas
12"x9"
©2010 Diana Moses Botkin
Monday, November 15, 2010
November Challenge: Do a Thirty-Minute Painting
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4 comments:
If this is your quick figure 30 minutes painting it is amazing!
Yes, it was a 30 minute quick study, Karla. Thanks for the kudos.
It is pretty much what you'd see with the beginning of a painting, although I did try to work extra fast. This was so good for me, as I usually try to be more careful than fast.
I should work at this more: it would be good to be able to do both.
grrr. this one was tough. I have to make myself be careful and deliberate as a matter of course...but I'd LOVE to be able to pull off recognizable quickies from time to time!
So would I, Vicki. I think it would start to feel a lot more natural to do these quick studies with more practice.
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