This is a sketch I worked on Friday jun 14. I would love to post these daily vids but I can’t seem to get them out in a consistent time. So I have to work in them ahead of time so when I post it post at similar times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTmjjqzgJQ
This painting probably depicts a scene outside the grounds of the château de Marcouville, very close to Pontoise. Cézanne's interest in this landscape may be linked to the fact that his friend Camille Pissarro had already painted there five years earlier. However the comparison stops there. The patient search for gentle solutions typical of Pissarro seems far removed from this painting imbued with powerful energy.
Cézanne was interested in the clump of tall trees on the banks of the Viosne. The difficulty was in making this landscape of greenery "readable". To this end, he contrasted the rectilinear aspect of the poplars with the confused mass of the other trees. Between the slanting brushstrokes, characteristic of this period, the white background filters through almost everywhere, bringing luminosity and animation to the surface of the painting.
Clearly Cézanne was seeking to overcome the technical difficulty of representing a view where the only motif was foliage. The difference between this wooded landscape and those of the Barbizon school is significant. Cézanne, like Pissarro, represented trees that had been planted by man rather than those that grew "naturally". He therefore introduced into his paintings signs of human activity organising the landscape, rather than Nature's anarchic growth.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj9sHjK7IVk
This image is part of a larger series (freedom)...i am beginning to put the finishing touches... what you are watching is the process of finishing a work of Art... these artworks begin as mono-prints, then i paint or draw on top of them...
At first i wanted to congest the page with lines... different color lines... lots of lines...
from those lines then i would just draw one line that would stand out... that would be my notion of freedom
as you can see from the other videos i have posted they did not become that...
but i believe they get to what i think freedom is better than anything else I have done...
you see each image dictates what could be done... i choose what lines to draw...
we are all free to follow which ever path we wish... and create whatever we wish... there are obvious boundaries but boundaries that can be broken...
I told a friend once that if you set your mind to something you can accomplish anything... he ridiculed me and said make up your mind to fly... and he waited for me to fly... silly right... human beings can already fly... thats why we have airplanes... i know thats not what he meant...
but with study.... patience and persistence... i believe that we can do anything...
just not the way you might expect...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfC-X1Y_4u4