Perspective is about how we see things in space. It can be difficult to understand at first.
However, having the ability to see in perspective is the key to capture something intangible such as the space around us, and enclose this 3D form in a flat, white piece of paper!
Done it right, it can show us the world from an angle beyond ordinary human observation.
One point, two point, three, four points of perspective! – How many points of perspective can we have?
What a variety of unusual angles we can project by connecting just the dots…!
This game is challenging yet, extremely fascinating…
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Working on my latest commission, I’ve encountered this problem:
I needed to find the best point of perspective, which in this case would unable the rider to ‘visually’ jump out of the picture.
What would be the best solution?
Bike drawn over two point perspective grid.
I have used two point perspective: Twopoint perspective uses two vanishing points placed on the horizon line. Receding lines are drawn from each one of the vanishing points.
The eye of the viewer will follow along these lines to one of the vanishing points.
Parallel, vertical lines are drawn to indicate where the biker ends and his height. The closer that these lines are placed in space to the vanishing points on either side, the longer the form appears.
PLAYING WITH PERSPECTIVE
Once we know how to place an object on the perspective grid, we can play with a variety of arrangements of vanishing points and angles.
Here the vertical parallel lines are angled hence making an illusion of the biker tilting to the right… 😉
PERSPECTIVE EYE
I have to admit that when I am painting I can see the objects I paint perfectly arranged on a grid which I mentally draw in my head; and see those objects on the paper before they are being even drawn.
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This is my new picture which I am currently working on. I managed to record its beginnings.
In this short video see how my town is emerging from nothingness of the canvas. Through lines and shapes, strokes of a brush, splashes of ink; I am forming, creating and bringing to life a town, my town, formed from a white cloud and confusion of my thoughts and ideas.
I really felt like GOD, having total control over this scene, left purely to my imagination. It is so empowering and scary – I can do anything with this picture and my intentions are good – I want the summer, the sunshine, energy and buzz. But it is easy to turn the image into a gloomy, terrible world, and then these buildings, bushes, trees and people will be locked forever in the hell of my mistake.
I’ve spent hours painstakingly mixing paints, trying to find the right colour. My aim was to leave an impression of summer afternoon with its strong sun lights and contrasting shadows.
The colour was really important but I couldn’t decide on a colour scheme. Because I wanted the feeling of summer with plenty of sunshine, going into a yellow–pink scheme felt like the most suitable direction. But the nuances are so difficult – too much yellow, makes it too fresh for a summer, adding too much orange will make it look tired and dark! I used vibrantly deep Ultramarine Blue for the shadows which colour, derived from purple seemed the most appropriate. However, red and orange hues would give a feeling of an evening. I also thought about green but I don’t really like green after all, not in its pure form as such colour would remind me of a Spring. Yet, I wanted to show summer with its hot, bright colours based on yellowand ochre, pink and peach.
STAGE 2: Enamel
Adding enamel highlights.
Now it’s finally time for fun!: enamel. This is the time when my hand goes free, it has a chance to improvise and relax. This is a time of FREEDOM. This is also a time to make quick decisions when the enamel runs down from my palette knife.
I have settled to leave the surface of the buildings in a pink, peach kind of colour. I have then added bright, light blue and pink lines, highlighting the tops of the roofs and edges of walls. Blue and pink are contrasting, nearly complementing themselves so the combination should create a contrast I desire. However, those bright lines weren’t that visible, they blended with the light colour of the buildings. I’ve added medium blue (Cerulean) and it started showing some visible changes.
Adding yellow only on the buildings’ side and white on the top of the roofs would show highlights on those shapes. The navy blue is going to go in the shadowy places, tracing the outlines of buildings and windows.
Not too much, it could be easy overworked!
Clitheroe, Oil and enamel on canvas. 100cm/80cm
The enamel work was fun! But I needed to be quick, the paint is running off my tool uncontrollably.
This painting is being painted for an open exhibition at Stewards Gallery in Clitheroe Castle, titled ‘Town v Country’.
It’s nearly finished. I am going to wait for it all to dry and using some dry brushtechnique – layer of rubbed paint on the top of existing image – I want to leave the town in the sunny mist.
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Living in a beautiful countryside is a source of inspiration to many artist and many indeed find joy and passion in recreating the scenery on their canvas. There is so much enjoyment out there, in constantly changing light affecting the clouds and the sky, the texture of grass, the pattern of fields which spread before the eyes like a patchwork, the lines of dry stone walls, the reflection in water, shadows of trees and bushes as they move gently in the air.
Despite all that stimulus, I find that approaching a blank canvas and simply beginning sketching the fields, the hill, the dry stone wall, creates a problem, the image on the canvas does not appear that exciting as it excited me out there. I want to know what it takes to create a stunning piece, grabbing hearts of people. I want to be the one who shows the world from an angle beyond an ordinary human perception, surprises.
I’ve done a little survey asking my viewers to give their suggestions and here I’m presenting my results.
Which style attracts you most?
I have showed them 5 different styles of landscape painting
Traditional – realistic style, a bit figurative.
2. Natural – Colours are as they appear to you in nature – so green grass, blue sky
3. Colourful – The one where colours are abstract, unreal like in Fauvism.
4. Naïve style – where objects are depicted in simple forms.
5. Abstract landscape – objects are losing their forms, it’s a composition (a set up) of colours and shapes, nothing appear to look real.
Person 1: ‘ I like them all, but number three is my favourite. My reason is because i feel that this style is what i see throughout most of your paintings, and that’s simply what makes your work so unique from everyone elses’ – Oh, Thank you Laura x,
Person 2: […I like] number 1. This feels as though I could actually be there. Or 2, for the same reason. (Number 2 makes me want to see what’s on the other side of the hill!)
So you are intrigued Maureen, that’s a fantastic answer. I also know that you see seaside – which is a place you want to be.
Person 3: [the abstract painting which is number 3, is] the most unique and expressive and colourful.
Person 4: I’d probably go for 1and 3 out of this selection because I like bold strong art but with content.
Person 5: I like no 1 best though very much appreciate the modernistic view of no 3.
Person 6: Its 1 and 2 for me because I find peace when walking in fields.
Person 7: Number 4 and 3. Simplicity, and brightness.
At least for once the naïve style gets the votes.
Person 8: 2 so beautiful & also 4
Person 9: Number 1 and number 5. Just love the poppies. The pictures draw you in to make you want to be there.
Many discover a familiar place, some place from their memories or dreams. Place they have been to, which they recognize, or a place where they would like to be, place where they would feel comfortable and happy. Such place they see is intriguing, inviting, alluring… and such place is real, easily recognizable. There might be some elements in this landscape art, that they like the most, such as poppies or simple the sea side J.
Some of you appreciate and notice the artist’s unique expression, a technical innovation such as: interesting brush strokes, bold colours, texture. Those are affecting the mood and the mood of the painted landscape is also important, frozen from ever so changing weather condition. The weather on the painting affects our mood and the overall mood of the painting.
Whatever you like about the painting what’s most important is to feel the connection with the image on emotional or spiritual level. It is that feeling of nostalgia which the painting evokes, that makes people like it and want it..
So: memory of place, place you want to be, interesting technique, and the feeling of connection – these elements all together are ingredients for a perfect masterpiece. Thank you for your survey.
Starry Night by Van Gogh. He painted it towards the end of his life, the mood expresses sadness and loneliness.
I very often look at famous artists to learn how they have approached the subject. This is a great way to learn. For those who learn art such process of looking at famous paintings is comparable to a relay race: we take the baton from our preceding artists and run with it our own way…
One of my favourite landscape artists is Vincent Van Gogh. He was certainly a master of colour and mood. Notice how his countryside paintings are rich in a variety of yellows and how they shine like gold when juxtaposition with dark blue or green. His thick layers of paint, with brush strokes so expressive, seem to be dancing, creating a sense of movement. By highlighting elements such as stars – they appear to have a powerful influence, or birds in his famous painting ‘Wheatfield with Crows’ , he brings anxiety and gloom.
I have seen the masterpieces of Van Gogh in Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and it was an experience comparable to seeing your favourite band live, so emotional and enriching. All the ingredients mentioned by you are contained in those paintings: reality yet in an unusual way. The golden wheat fields remind me about Poland, hot Polish summer which I really miss.
What would I like to achieve as a landscape painter? I have asked the question to meet your needs – you as a viewer, receiver of my imaginary and hopefully a collector… I have to admit, I do not seek realism as this job is reserved for cameras. Painting a landscape is ever such a challenging task as the scenery I see and get excited about is unreachable, so fleeting, at that moment at that time when I look, it looks different and I know it won’t last, time changes the image at every moment of the day and night. My desire is to stop it, frame in my memories.
‘Magnificent Pendle Hill’ – Gosha Gibek, A5 card -£3.5 including postage Fine art giclee prints, numbered and signed: A4 – £10, A3 – £20
Magnificent Pendle Hill
‘Those fields and hills’ – Gosha Gibek, A5 card -£3.5 including postage Fine art giclee prints, numbered and signed: A4 – £10, A3 – £20
My latest search for the perfect landscape paintings,
I would appreciate to know your thoughts.
Each of this images can be bought as limited edition A5 card for the price of £3.50 – postage included.
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ArthurSchopenhauer, 19th Century German philosopher, held that human wild and powerful drive to survive and reproduce is essentially what causes suffering and pain in the world, and that the only way to escape the suffering was through art. People should either create or contemplate art.
I wanna… get the f*** out of here…over to the moon. Original Screen printing, 45/60cm, £40 unframed.
Art is truly a therapy. It is about the idea of self-exploration that can often lead a person to some insightful conclusions about themselves. By expressing yourself through art, you see things about yourself that you otherwise may not have comprehended or not have been able to articulate. While creating art we become more objective, confident, the whole life and reality attached to it goes into perspective. It feels like being in a different dimension, world where you’ve got the power to influence and set your own terms.
“Sun set taking over King Street”, ink and enamel on canvas, 50/70 cm Original: £340 High quality giclee print on art paper: £45, unframed
And so I feel when I create. I feel like in love… There is that warmth spreading through to my heart that makes me happy…
Dictionary states: creation is an act which causes something to exist. Imagine, how amazing it must be to possess such power, power of creation! To be free from routine and from inevitable, free from hard work and from ‘I have to’ – BELIEVE ME, it is a powerful feeling. Can you even imagine what would it mean to possess such great power?
“Secret Courtyard”, ink and enamel on canvas, 45/60 cm
Original: £230
High quality giclee print on art paper: £45, unframed
“Secret Courtyard”, ink and enamel on canvas, 45/60 cm
Original: £230
High quality giclee print on art paper: £45, unframed
Having such power means to be able to influence people, to have the capacity to bring about change. For me having such power, the power of creation, means to be able to BE, without other forces interfering. It means to be loyal to myself, to have freedom to release myself from that other self – the torn and forked one, the weary, the loaded one, the enslaved…Power of art makes me agree with myself, cease the inner dispute, it means to be FREE.
Power of ART MAKES ME COMPLETE.
FREEDOM…
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The latest pieces:
The Courtyard – £230
‘Sunset over King Street’ – £340
“Sun set taking over King Street”, ink and enamel on canvas,
45/70 cm
Original: £350
High quality giclee print on art paper: £45, unframed
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While searching on-line for my name, I have encountered this blog which uses my illustration I have created for the series of work called ‘Simply a woman’. The idea for this work was to use only white, black and red colours and the organic lines.
The blog is written in Spanish but I have made a rough translation. It actually uses a poem by Norge Espinosa Mendoza called: ‘Vestido de novia’ – ‘the wedding dress’.
With what eyes will this blue-handed boy look at himself. With what umbrella will he dare cross the downpour and the ship’s path towards the moon. How will he do it How will he do it, dressed as a bride if empty of breasts is his heart if his nails are not painted if he has only a fan of dragonflies.
I have searched more about the poem, it talks about transsexualism…but I DO NOT RELATE TO THAT!
However, like all Latin American literature I am quite intrigued by its quirkiness… After all I am proud that my work is being used internationally. https://abrazador.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/vestido-de-novia/
“Sun set taking over King Street”, ink and enamel on canvas,
45/70 cm
Original: £350
High quality giclee print on art paper:
£45, unframed
It kept me awake all night… the urge to paint was too strong. I had finished at 3.30 in the morning facing 2.5 hours of sleep!!
But I was happy as I did it and I am happy now, so excited about this new piece. Its intensive colours, its blinding light…
King Street Clitheroe – It was getting dark at the sun set, I rushed to get prescription from Peter Buckley pharmacy. But it must have been 7 o’clock and I realised that all the shops around were closed, empty, lights off, very still… even the the Platform Gallery in the front seemed quiet, lacking its life..
There may have been some life in the pub across the street, I could sense people, probably staying in the ‘Old Post Hotel’. Maxwells caffee would welcome its guests, unless it’s Monday, that day they are closed.
I was out with the dog, who would walk underfoot, stopping me all the time to sniff and wee on walls and fences. 😆
Seeing that light, this haze of yellow net, hooked me like seeing a miracle… I may sound weird but I’m drown to those moment and am looking for magic- and ‘Magic’- would be a word the most suitable to describe that moment, that scene I saw…
I overslept that morning after painting all night! I was late for work and my son late for school…
But I am still happy now, being able to look at what I have achieved and I can’t believe what emerged from under my hand, those colours are making me feel sooo good!
I would like to share with you my latest work and show you stages of its making.
December 2014/ January 2015
Inspiration: Clitheroe, the Courtyard
This town is still full of surprises to me as scenes appear in front of my eyes unexpectedly and I can swear I may have never seen them before – well, not in this light, not with this texture, not in those colours.
The urge to transfer the view on a canvas is following me all the time, impatiently emerging in my head where the painting process have already began. I need to be taking thousand of pictures!
It is the scariest thing – to face an empty, white canvas. Not for long … soon the coloured pencil scratches it bringing the outlines of shapes and marking the colours I am going to use .
Next, come inks. I love using inks for its outstanding colour brilliancy. Something the acrylics would never give me.
Then, the enamel.. in variety of colours! The beauty of enamel is the line which allows to emphasise important places such as light streaks on the verge of a windowsill or the pattern of the bricks or slates in the shadows. And it changes the picture into something surreal, magical: exactly what I have imagined: the real and unreal, joined together in perfect union to bring joy, happy thoughts and excitement.
The Couryard, inks and enamel on canvas.
50cm / 70 cm.
Original is available to buy at the Cheesie Tchaikovsky in Clitheroe (previous Lee Carter House) at a price of £220.
High quality Giclee Print on art paper, 50cm/70cm only £35 !
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Which style attracts you most?
This town is still full of surprises to me as scenes appear in front of my eyes unexpectedly and I can swear I may have never seen them before – well, not in this light, not with this texture, not in those colours.
