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Some of my impressionistic paintings that I did over the years
Kaustav
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In most of these paintings, I employed scumbling and dry brush technique.
Acrylic.
Oil Painting
Oil Pastel
Soft Pastel
Acrylic.
Oil Painting
Oil Pastel
Soft Pastel
Comments
Values were and still are a big problem zone. I have to overcome this problem. You can understand how I felt about it when Mark addressed this issues in his earlier videos (showed examples). I have understood something about brushes and brush grips. So, overcame that a little. Impressionistic and realist brush grips are different. Brush grip makes a huge difference in both.
I haven't done portrait painting. Have to do that. Love doing still lives but need to do more. Need to improve the shape thing. This involves seeing more intensely. Lastly, I need to create a unified style of my own. For Instance, when we see a painting by you or Mark or Martin J Crane, we do not look for the artist's names. We already know.
I am going steady, so probably I will improve in all of these areas. But it will take some time as there are other priorities as well.
Clicked on it and sure enough it was you... If that doesn't tell you something I don't know what will, because you are a great artist.
Exhibitions are a long shot now. They are a matter of money and time. I don't have both presently. Also, the quality of the work should be better than what I am doing. I think after one or two years, my skills will be somewhat better. You know, once you are a professional you don't have time to guess. You have to be sure about your skills. I am building an online presence. Local galleries in Noida prefer only stylized Ganesh, Shive, Budhha, heavenly feelings etc. New Delhi also needs some time for realism.
I somehow feel happy that Maharashtra has generated so many watercolorists and realists in the recent years. I don't know who are the buyers but the more and more realists started to come in there, so the buyers are more interested I guess! Recently, Pramod Kurlekar received a grand welcome in Portrait Society of America by Richard Schmid, Susan Lyon, Scott Burdick, David Kassan and many others.