Art Challenge #1

[browncoat2x2]

                        Title: Abstract Green
                        Artist: 2x2
                        Medium: Oil on Canvas 
                        Brushes: #10 Flat bristle
                        Colours: Permanent Green, Sap Green, Viridian Hue
                        Dimensions: 16" x 20"
                        Approx. Time: 1 Hour
                        Completed: Apirl 11, 2007

agent_rouka challenged me to paint something abstract and green. This is the result. I'm really quite pleased with it overall. This is the second oil painting I've ever done. Unfortunately, a lot of the brush stroke detail is lost in the picture. I'd like to do a high quality scan of it once it's fully dry, for archiving. This was very good practice for getting used to how the paint moves on the canvas, and how the colours blend with each other. Oil is a very fluid, mutable medium. It's quite interesting to play with. I'm excited, now, about trying some more!

Comments

[agent-rouka.livejournal.com]

:O

WOOOOOOOOOOW!

I really really really like this! It's so rounded and curvy and feminine but with such lovely texture... to it. Calming and inspiring at once. :D Like a big patch of wild grass that suddenly decided to go up and travel the world, hehe!


And now I am really nervous about trying to meet your challenge because.. I SO don't paint as prettily as you.


But that doesn't stop me from giving you another challenge because there so needs to be more Mel Art! I dare you to do something that is all about angles. In all the shades of orange. :)

[browncoat2x2]

Okay, first thing... Please, please, *please* don't feel nervous about painting your own challenge :o( That is *so* not what this should be about... it's not about comparing styles or anything like that, it's about doing something creative, trying new things, and having fun! I'd rather never post another piece of art than hamper someone's creativity :o( Besides, you promised glitter! I want to see glitter!! *is still bitter and angry at the post office for losing your card* Okay? Please?

Now... OMG to your wild grass comment! *is amazed* I so had this definate idea of grass when I started painting the bottom right hand side, that swept up into these feathery things and... wow, that is soo cool that it would make you think grass! And I wanted to come up with some sort of title that implied 'LIFE!' or 'springing up' cuz that's so how I felt about it... that's just... how do you *get* me like that?

Anyway, thank-you. I'm *very* pleased with how it turned out, and it's just *so* much about the medium of oil paint... seriously, I could not have painted this in acrylic or water colours, they just don't have the same... organic? quality that oil paint does. It's so very different, I had no idea!

Orange and angles, eh? Very cool... This one is going to take a little more thinking and planning, I think... :oD Thank-you!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Looks pretty! You are very VERY art-y :)

[browncoat2x2]

Hee, thank-you! I think I'm just a little bit lucky and the rest is just willingness to try ;o) Oil is *so* neat to use! I really like it, and I'm excited to try more! I'd definately reccommend trying it out, it's so much fun! :oD

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

*moves oil painting farther up the to do list*

:)

[terimaru.livejournal.com]

I love all the hues you used in this - and the swirling is gorgeous. I can't wait to see the orange. Maybe you should do a whole series.

[browncoat2x2]

Grumm!! :oD hee

Thank-you darlin'... I did *a lot* of swirling *G* I'm glad it turned out (so there! to your short-stabby-stroked art teacher *G*)

I think a series of multiple shaded, single colour paintings would be a neat idea too... I think I'm going to have to buy more canvasses *G*

[coquillagement.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Wow.

Yet more brilliant artistry from the amazingly talented 2x2? Holy smokes, woman. Title that painting "Green with my Envy".

[browncoat2x2]

Hee! *loves your Icon choice* *giggle*

Aw, heck... *blush*

Thank-you darlin'... I dunno about brilliant, but I am pleased with it :o)

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty!

I can't paint so this is awesome. Is there anything you can't do? ;-)

[browncoat2x2]

...but if you *could* paint, this would suck? ;oP *giggles*

thanks, darlin'... I'm pretty sure there's *one* or two things I can't do *smirk*

Honestly, a lot of it is just a matter of trying... That's the greatest thing I learned from joining my medieval group, because it encompasses so many different hobbies, and it really instills a willingness to try new things for yourself... So, the question you should be asking is, Is there anything *YOU* can't do? aside from painting, cuz you already said that... ;o)

[hjea.livejournal.com]

*jaw!drop*

SO PRETTY. The first thing I thought of, was that it reminded me of a phoenix, like something on fire was just rising p and flying away - except it was green! ;)

Really, REALLY wonderful looking!

[browncoat2x2]

Ah, yes! I see a phoenix in there too, and up close, the dark tips really have a feather-y look to them... :o) I've seen so many things looking at it already *G*

Thanks, darlin'! I really like it too (so I'm glad it's not just me *G*)

[styrofoam-guy.livejournal.com]

I like it. For some reason I think Peacock

[browncoat2x2]

Thanks!

yeah, I get the peacock vibe I think.. sorta like the crest on their head, and feathers and stuff :o) I love the way so many different people can see so many things in the same painting. It's so neat :o)