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I
am an artist from Scotland, and I was coloured pencil 'Artist
of the Month' away back in April 2000.
One
of my coloured pencil pieces was of 'The Wave' and just recently
I painted it again this time using oils and a palette knife.
I emailed Gemma, asking her if she would be interested in
showing other artists my two styles of artwork off the same
subject, and she kindly said yes, so here they are.
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The Wave in Coloured Pencil
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First of all I chose to do a
drawing of a wave because of the different shades of colour that
you can get from the sea and I wanted to capture this, also with
the use of the colours you can create the feeling of movement
and the power from the wave. So I decided with my first attempt
to use coloured pencils, because there was so much detail in
the wave and I knew I could achieve this with pencils, even although
it would take alot of time. When I draw with pencils, I just
start at one end and work across, I don't block in everything
then work into it.
I remembered drawing the detail for a couple of hours with not
much to show, and I thought to myself this is going take a wee
while, but with what I had done, I could see the wave start to
come to life, so I stuck with it. I can not remember exactly
how long it took me, because I would do an hour here and an hour
there in the evening after work, but all in all I think it took
about 14 hrs. |
For
the past two years I have been focussing on my painting, and
just last month I decided to use my old wave
as my subject to paint. This time I used oils on canvas and painted
it just using a palette knife, again I wanted to try and capture
the movement with bold paint strokes. The difference was that
this time the painting is 24x30 inches while my coloured pencil
drawing was 11x16 inches, so I could be bold with the paint and
it took half the time to do.
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The
Wave in Oils
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| Personally I loved creating both
the waves and I got very absorbed in bringing them to life with
each mark of the pencil or paint of the knife, and if people
looking at them, can feel the power of the sea, then I am very
happy to have achieved my goal.
I hope my wee article was of interest to you fellow artists,
it was just to show how I approached the same subject in different
styles.
Happy drawing everyone
Scott McGregor
K. Scott McGregor
3D Modeller/Artist
EMAIL: scott.mcgregor@amsjv.com
ARTWORK website: http://www.art3d.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Main.html
Portfolio page: www.ArtWanted.com/KS_McGregor
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