Vas Avramidis is a freelance artist and designer. He has over ten years of experience in graphic arts and web design. In addition to graphic work, Vas is also a painter, illustrator, and relief carver.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Abstract Realism - Take 2
This is my second sketch of this abstract realism style I am trying to develop. I don't think it was as successful as the first one, but I made some interesting discoveries along the way. There is a certain vocabulary that is developing that may get me somewhere in the end. One thing that I have learned from art history is that if you obsess over one thing long enough, great things happen. So we'll see...maybe sketch 100 or 1000 will yield the "A Ha!" moment. Below are the stages along the way.
I always begin with an ink sketch because it helps initial image fight through the layers of paint and stay visible in the end. My initial concept here was to show the struggle between man and nature, but as you will see in the end I had to abandon that idea.
After the initial ink sketch I start to block out the general color map. Here I started to obliterate the horseshoe a bit to show that man cannot ultimately control nature.
This is my improvisational phase. I just work intuitively to map out the language of the piece.
By the time I got to this nearly finished state I decided that I hated the result and almost threw it out. But I always tell my students that there are no mistakes in art, so I decided to take my own advice and keep working. There is always a discovery to be made.
This is the final result. As I said, I was not happy with the previous results so I painted over teh horseshoe and got an interesting result. I like that I can see the under layers peeking through, this is something that will be useful in the future. Basically I think this painting was not overly successful, but I made some useful discoveries in the process. Let me know what you all think.Labels: abstract, paintings, sketches
posted by Vas Avramidis at 1:24 PM
 
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