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Painting Oz, Cont’d
Visuals create stories. This is my mindset when developing a painting. Not just for images, but for writing as well. Story, character, plot, background history, emotions, world building…all of it works together when generating new images. This approach works well when dreaming up paintings for classic stories, too, like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I’ll describe what was going through my mind for each of the images below. To continue from where we left off,…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Fischer Paints! The Dance- oil on Panel
July 2, 2024 - Shall we go on an adventure on the high seas with this one? Safe to say the adventure got off to a slow start as this drawing has been sitting around the studio for a couple years waiting for me to paint it, lol. I actually did a video here on Muddy showing you how I mount the printed out drawing on panel. And the idea actually goes back many more years as a concept that I'd painted digitally, but always wanted to revisit in real paint. And we finally got there. And I did try and be adventurous with the paint. There were certain areas like the waves and sky that there was no reference. Sure I was trying to go after some of that Japanese wood block vibe for the waves, but that…
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