This week the pansy got an extra dose of brown to calm everything down. So it went from this:
… to this:
The proportions are wrong, per usual, but that’s a little closer to this:
The cliffs went from this:
… to this:
I like my cliffs better than the one in the book. And frankly, I have begun to notice little inconsistencies in the book – it seems almost as if they correct things from step to step and they do not cop to it.
One response to “Weekly Paint Progress: 6/10”
HOORAY! Yes, pansies look better, and yes, I think you’ve got something with the cliffs.
That is intriguing re: silent correction. I’d imagine that most people fix things as they go to some degree, but yes, you would need to *not* do that in a simple step-by-step examples thing. So where would a publisher find the artists who can 1. hold off on fixing things other than doing This Step, and also can 2. Do Only One Step At A Time (I’d imagine the most advanced artists – the ones who are least likely to need to correct their work a lot – would have serious issues with chopping up their work into stages like that – and those issues might in fact result in needs for correction)…? Although I guess probably most publishers just ask a few people [likely taking inspiration from who has already been published in this sort of thing so as to *not* land artists who absolutely can’t do this *at all* but who think they can before they try? and probably now from some Social Media Presence concepts] and go with whoever’s available that year…
Now, whether you’ll be published first for your novel or for your step-by-step oil paintings… 🙂