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| Black Angus Calf - gouache |
Backgrounds are the bane of artists and one fellow artist said she switched to painting landscapes just to avoid them! I don't think I'm quite ready to do that but backgrounds certainly are a PITA!
3/25/14 Hi all! I've come back a day later to say that I added some darker color to the corners which made the background pop more. While I did like the blue background, I thought it was too bright and intense and overshadowed the calf. This gold background makes the painting look a bit flat in this photo but looks much better in real life. It complements the blue in the calf (which also doesn't show well here) and I think the painting is improved.
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Well, I'm just ploughing through old posts trying to get up to date after our break in the sunshine.
I'm amazed at all the incarnations of this cow. After looking at them all in order I do think the second cow version is much better, and I know you weren't really happy with the first version.
I loved the 'fiery' background earlier and didn't like the blue as much but I think you've done the right thing here - tamed the background but kept the colours to complement the ear-tag etc. Long journey but you've got there and I don't think you should change a thing now
Thanks again, Sue. I don't think I'm ever 100% happy with a painting (or if I am, everyone else hates it!) but I think I'm stopping here with this. Varnished it a couple of days ago so it's definitely finished!
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