Al Fresco Art Club Challenge, April 5, 2020 -- Paint Like a Painter
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This is the “after” image.
The “before” version.
Today’s Al Fresco Art Club challenge was to paint without using silhouettes. We weren’t allow to use ink lines to show edges. Instead of painting in a comic style with black outlines, I was supposed to use value and color to create a painting with no lines, just lost and found edges. I chose to repaint the cover image of my first book, the Jay Bird That Jumped Down A Chimney.
I didn’t produce a finished image in the one-hour we were allowed for the challenge, but I’m happy with my painting. The picture looks dreamier than my original comic version. I like that. After all, I’m writing fantasies that are inherently dreamy and filled with impossibilities, such as jaybirds that wear glasses, and butterflies that can carry a burro over a 40-foot high, barbed-wire-encrusted border wall. Dreamy is good.
I’ve decide to pursue a painterly style, which mean that I’ll be repainting the images I’ve already completed. This may throw my schedule out of whack, but in return, I’ll have visually more exciting image. I realize that adapting a dreamy, painterly style will require lots of time spent learning how to paint, but I’m excited to learn. I’m going to do the work.
