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Observation and Visualisation in Painting
By Mark Jubbs
An artist knows when a painting completed when it reflects the atmosphere that they are attempting to capture. The amount of time and detail which is invested in an artwork is irrelevant, most finished paintings could possibly be considerably continued by the artist including every last detail, but whenever an artwork is in fact completed is totally subjective. Leonardo de Vinci became a superb artist as a result of being a scientist who was attempting to study the natural world; exactly how he studied this was by the process of observation and visualisation. The act of painting and drawing made him observe things in ways in which no one had previously done before. The most important element of creating a painting is the observation and visualisation process. Art is not about producing images, moreover, it’s about teaching your eye how to actually ‘see.’ When the artist learns how to observe elements of an image such as light and shadow, whenever they look around them the can see a great deal more then individuals who have not learnt the process of observation and visualisation. The observation and visualisation process is about learning how to make use of vision differently than usual. The process is much more beneficial compared to artwork that is created. It is satisfying to create a work of art; however it is even better to have the ability to notice things that no one else can easily see. Paint What You See, Not What You Think You See The widespread presumption that creativeness is solely an attribute of imagination does not consider the advanced and much more significant creativeness of perception. Scientists who work in the science of perception are in common agreement that seeing isn't, as generally presumed, an uncomplicated process which is solely receptive. We don't see and subsequently think of having emotions regarding what we have just seen. Feeling emotions and thinking are integral components of the process of perception. Exactly what we truly experience as a consequence of looking at an object is not the object itself, but a picture which is constructed in the brain. This image is made in the visual cortex at the rear of your brain, and it is just partly made up of the information from your retina, which has been filtered to allow only a small portion of what your eye sees. The remaining information from the retina is affected and altered with the memories of things you have previously seen, emotional and intellectual experiences into a visual image which is incorrectly presumed to accurately represent what is actually there. Actually, it is just a composite of the internal and external, and past and present experiences. The Elements of Observation The main elements of observation which have to be accurately depicted on the canvas can be broken down in to the 2 main categories of value and colour. The most important element of observation for realism artists is value. It can be described as an accurate depiction of lightness and darkness of the tones within an image. Most of the realism in an artwork is produced by creating accurate values. The precise depiction of values is far more important than achieving accurate colour. Mastering values is the first step to achieving accurate and realistic paintings. Many artists master values by painting in only blacks, greys and whites. An accurate depiction of colour is also incredibly important in achieving realistic paintings. When we see colour it is greatly affected by other colours which are also in your field of vision. Artists can train themselves to see colour more precisely and depict it accurately within their artwork. Although not easy to learn, the observation and visualisation techniques which can be learnt by artists helps to filter out the subjective elements of the visual process. This enables the artist to paint what they see and not what they think they see; and in doing so, the ability to create superbly realistic art is achieved. |
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Your Intel was very insightful about observation. It reminded me of a web page I did a long time ago about Two Tables. It makes a distinction between what you see and what you think you see.
You sound like my art teacher of long ago. Without these two powers "O" and "V" artwork would just be work.
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