My sixth project from Little Ways to Learn Acrylics. The border should have been a lot subtler, so the blue showed through more. Not quite a Rothko. 🙂
Colour field
Hue, tint, tone, and shade
A really helpful guide to the difference between these colour-theory terms.
If the majority of aesthetic works fails to astonish us, then, it may have something to do with the ingrained insensitivity that is part and parcel of contemporary life. It may also have something to do with the fact that art, as Solzhenitsyn said so eloquently, is constantly being put to uses that are at odds with its essence.
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel
Elephant
My fifth project from Little Ways to Learn Acrylics. This was the one my eldest daughter asked me to paint for her. I found it quite hard—especially mixing the greens and greys, which didn’t really come out like the book. This was my second attempt too (I chucked the first one in the bin).
Tree at Grey Lynn Park
