In our speed painting exercise this week Josh and I played a artist warm up game. Each of us made a few squiggles on a document. We then traded documents and over the next hour built up our speed paintings based on the underlying structure of those squiggles.
You can see how Josh built up a ship entering the atmosphere of a particularly bad planet or the corona of a star. The line in the bottom right was not directly included in the structure but if you look at the clouds in the foreground and the bloom of the light source you can see how even that squiggle informed the composition.
For some reason Josh’s squiggles always look like fun shaped hills or architecture to me. Next time we do this I’m going to actively try to go in another direction, but for today we get a serene scene of man fishing under his favorite tree. Josh’s critiques included adding more atmospheric discoloring to the background hill which helped the foreground stand out. Also, not as much my main tree, but my other two trees I didn’t have time to work into the painting. They where started using a custom stamp brush I made, so without reworking the strokes and adding foliage they feel much too crisp. I think the most successful thing for me in this exercise was managing to make the flip of the original squiggle on the bottom right of the image inform the reflection of the bridge in the water.
