[Aquanet] Can we start a discussion?

[Valerie Kent]

Would you sugget wet in wet or wet or dry or it does not matter? Also since the brain connects the dots and generalizes, would a few kolinsky fine strokes (much as you might do dog or cat fur/hair) help the effect?  Valerie Kent

bdlindley <bdlindley at sbcglobal.net> wrote:          I would suggest thinking of the fuzz being signalled by two things:
   
  1.  The absence of specular reflections or hard edges to cast shadows
  2.  A portion of the edge being soft, when that shape is in front, but hard when it is a transition to something occluding it.
   
  A sedimentary character to the paint filling the shape is also helpful, but it is the edges that are critical. A lot of fussiness within the shapes is redundant and maybe even counterproductive, perhaps.  That is a supposition, not a firm conviction.
   
  Barry
   
   
   
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carol Wickenhiser-Schaudt 
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  Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:23 PM
  Subject: [Aquanet] Can we start a discussion?
  


Hi all!

I was in my yard this morning and I made a wonderful discovery.  I am growing green eggplant.  This is an heirloom variety that is from Louisiana.  All of the eggplant blossoms that I have ever seen are different shades of violet.  These are snow white.  My first thought was to paint them.  My second was a sanity check.  The leaves of an eggplant are very soft and hairy.

I was wondering how all of you would approach the technique of painting FUZZ?  I would use my three haired Kolinsky  brush and paint on every one of the thousands of hairs, making myself a candidate for the funny farm or I'd eventually become so frustratingly bored after weeks of painting them that I would tear up the painting in disgust.

Carol 


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