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Iris in Garden 32"x40" Acrylic 5-21-2021
Posted on 5/22/2021 7:37:34 AM
By Sarkis Antikajian
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I am still working at trying to make the acrylic medium behave to my satisfaction. Looking at the reduced image of this large painting it appears to me as if it’s a small format sketch. And I like that.I have been painting for years yet, still I marvel at how one stroke can change drastically the nature of the painting as a whole. Especially in this style of painting when even, in the smallest brushstroke, there is a natural gradation of color and value that could affect the whole painting and not only the passage next to it. The difficulty is to train one's self to see the whole at all times during the painting activity and not focus on parts. Adhering to rules of painting blindly that may guarantee that the painting would work satisfactorily, could also lead to an acceptable sameness that would be boring.
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