Flight

[ZenDruid]

Some red flourishes that became a bird. Acrylic on 16x20 stretched canvas. C&C welcome.

 

[trufflecat]

This has a nice energy to it and good choice of colors.

 

[ZenDruid]

Thanks trufflecat!

 

[Terri]

How beautiful and free feeling this is! I love this painting, Zen!

 

[Charlie’s Mum (Maureen)]

Good sense of flow, movement,…. Nice!

 

[ZenDruid]

How beautiful and free feeling this is! I love this painting, Zen!

Thanks Terri!

 

[ZenDruid]

Good sense of flow, movement,…. Nice!

Thank you Maureen! My first attempt at movement, usually I'm thinking static, but this just suggested flight.

 

[Enyaw]

Interesting with vivid color.

 

[Queen Bee]

Love it. Great strong colors and sense of motion.

 

[ZenDruid]

Interesting with vivid color.

Thanks Enyaw!

 

[ZenDruid]

Love it. Great strong colors and sense of motion.

Thank you Queen Bee!

 

[Artyczar]

Very nice, clear, and has a bold palette. It's uplifting and that's what I like most about it. Well done. Successful!

 

[ZenDruid]

Very nice, clear, and has a bold palette. It's uplifting and that's what I like most about it. Well done. Successful!

Thanks Arty, glad you like it!

 

[Hermes2020]

I like the impression of looseness in your painting, which is something I wish I had in my paintings. The way you applied white over the previously painted blue to give a scumble effect is lovely:

I can see you know how to handle the brush with confidence.

 

[ZenDruid]

Thanks Hermes! I had a 3rd grade teacher who passed out a blank sheet of paper to each student, then she'd walk around the room and make a loose pencil squiggle, each different, on each paper. Then she told us to build that into a drawing, of anything. Brilliant. In this case, I had a blank blue canvas, took a brush of red paint and made broad loose random marks. A bird emerged. I almost never know where I'm going to end.

 

[laf.art]

Brilliant teacher Zen, love the way the orange plays off the red

 

[ZenDruid]

Brilliant teacher Zen, love the way the orange plays off the red

Thanks Laf, I do like my reds. I should learn to also work in muted colors and earth tones.

 

[Donna T]

Your bird made from red flourishes is more bird-like than many bird paintings I've seen! You had a wonderful teacher in 3rd grade and it's a good thing that lesson stuck!

 

[ZenDruid]

Your bird made from red flourishes is more bird-like than many bird paintings I've seen! You had a wonderful teacher in 3rd grade and it's a good thing that lesson stuck!

Thank you Donna! She was pretty cool, on a sunny day she took us outside to make sun prints on some kind of light sensitive paper (cyanotype?) - on rain days she tried to teach us basic music theory with nothing more than a pitch pipe and how to sight read sheet music. Learning to draw was considered a communication skill. (yeah I'm that old, my first canvas was a cave wall) Just kidding, actually it was the wall behind the sofa in my parent's living room where I became a noted muralist with a box of crayons.