As Crystal's starting off with anatomy studies, I need to start off the year on the painting side! I've begun my second Jenny Saville mastercopy.
Mastercopies are a great way to learn to paint, and because I have no background with color I need to find similar palletes in which I want to paint in and copy them. I plan on doing as many mastercopies as possible over the next year and I will post the progress as they come along on my own blog as well as the beginning and end of each piece on here.
Jenny Saville has a technique which I would like to incorporate a lot in my own work. She layers and uses a very tight color palette. I found in my first copy of hers, that I could narrow my idea of color into a specific palete and use that as a tool to learn how to move and blend the paint. Of course it will take tons of copies for me to be able to work on my own paintings and leave them with a more finished and professional quality but that is what I plan on working on over the next year.
Many of the learning tools we are using are taught in ateliers style schools, mastercopies being one of them. It is thought to be a great way to start color practice and theory by tightening up what may become an overwhelming way of thinking; color. I have found it extremely useful but I have a long way to go :x!
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