RE: My first steps in the world of art / Mis primeros pasos en el mundo del arte - (#club100)
Thank you Jorge for sharing your experience and it was interesting to know what people like you who dedicated their life to Art feel and what boundaries they need to cross.
I absolutely agree there is always something that we need to learn, of course, generally we can say: you are good, it is nice and so on. But that will not help us to improve. We know how it is in museum when the viewers are going and while studying each piece, there is always something that such neutral view my notice but that will be something that probably we even do not pay attention.
In inner us, we know our weaknesses but we hope that others do not see it. Of course, we can flatter and tell that this is good and so on... to keep our relationship up but this is not something that will help us to improve ourselves.
Seeing your watercolour works I noticed that your trees are too dark, although they are further in background, should not they be more lighter in colours, also the greens of trees have such sharp edge, without nice smooth transition area, like watercolour should have.
The second one with trees, the trunk of tree in lower part is also very dark and looks more monochrome. I like the background it is peaceful and has harmony in it.
The last watercolour painting is too pale, the colour of water is the same in background and front.
These are first impression from looking at the paintings.
By the way, I have my first experience with watercolour too, will post it tomorrow.
The sculpture looks cute, how big it was?
Thank you for this post and was interesting to learn more about your journey into Art.
Hi @stef1!
You are absolutely right, that is why I should have overcome the shame that showing my first watercolours causes me, because I'm aware of all the observations that you have made on them.
These watercolours have never been shown in an exhibition and never will. I have no idea where they are,
At the same time, I'm very glad to be able to receive your accurate analysis on these works due to your extensive knowledge of this technique.
That little clay model must have been about 20cm long.
I think it will be nice to see your first watercolours!
I must say that I was proud of those works at that time, due to my limited capacity for observation. This is something that happens to all of us, in all fields. The senses must be educated!
I'm sure that you, in an x-ray see an enormous amount of information that I'm unable to distinguish.
Of course, people can flatter other people's work without technical knowledge, that's absolutely acceptable.
We do that, always, especially in art. In music, for example, everyone likes or dislikes some piece of music or song and that is natural, nobody cares about the notes, music bars and so on. That's for the pros, sure.
For visual art it's the same, you like it or you don't like it. It is valid, that is the goal of art, to arouse feelings, but not for those of us who call ourselves "professionals".
An expert may or may not like some work, but can distinguish levels of quality independent of personal taste.
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