Comments for ifatart.com http://ifatart.com Ifat Glassman Art Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:15:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on My finished 5-months still-life drawing (weekly post #5 ) by Ifat Glassman http://ifatart.com/2012/04/my-finished-5-months-still-life-drawing-weekly-post-5/#comment-40 Ifat Glassman Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:15:40 +0000 http://ifatart.com/?p=242#comment-40 Dad! You are commenting on my blog! I didn't k ow you are following :) I'll explain what it means.. So first, 'value' is referring to the agree of darkness or brightness of something (its grayscale 'value'). To "see nothing but value" means to to ignore all other aspects of the visual appearance of your object and focus only on the value. This means ignoring the color (its hue or saturation and so on) and just making one decision: how dark it light is that area compared to other areas of the object. Value is said to be the most important aspect of realism in art after drawing (describing the shape of the object) and color - last. This is why in an atelier students spend one year or more on drawing in grayscale and then some more time painting in grayscale. I hope you like my drawing! It made my morning seeing your interest in my blog :D Dad! You are commenting on my blog! I didn’t k ow you are following :)

I’ll explain what it means.. So first, ‘value’ is referring to the agree of darkness or brightness of something (its grayscale ‘value’). To “see nothing but value” means to to ignore all other aspects of the visual appearance of your object and focus only on the value.

This means ignoring the color (its hue or saturation and so on) and just making one decision: how dark it light is that area compared to other areas of the object.

Value is said to be the most important aspect of realism in art after drawing (describing the shape of the object) and color – last. This is why in an atelier students spend one year or more on drawing in grayscale and then some more time painting in grayscale.

I hope you like my drawing! It made my morning seeing your interest in my blog :D

]]> Comment on My finished 5-months still-life drawing (weekly post #5 ) by haim http://ifatart.com/2012/04/my-finished-5-months-still-life-drawing-weekly-post-5/#comment-39 haim Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:36:38 +0000 http://ifatart.com/?p=242#comment-39 what's the meaning of "to see nothing but value" what’s the meaning of “to see nothing but value”

]]> Comment on My weekly post #3 by Ifat Glassman http://ifatart.com/2012/04/my-weekly-post-3/#comment-29 Ifat Glassman Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:35:15 +0000 http://ifatart.com/?p=180#comment-29 Hey Rina! thanks! I think the drawing captures *a lot* of your personality. I really like it, I might get it framed, that's how much I like it ^.^ It makes me feel like one of those Disney princesses... But mostly, when you drew it, it was very evident you were having a good time - I think it shows in the drawing too and it reminded me how drawing feels like to me when I am drawing from imagination (especially in the past when I was unaware of how much progress I have to make with my skills). It's how I felt when I first started painting you, before I started analyzing the colors and value, then it became all work, no fun :-) So.. Thanks again.. It's been a lot of fun. Hey Rina! thanks! I think the drawing captures *a lot* of your personality. I really like it, I might get it framed, that’s how much I like it ^.^ It makes me feel like one of those Disney princesses…

But mostly, when you drew it, it was very evident you were having a good time – I think it shows in the drawing too and it reminded me how drawing feels like to me when I am drawing from imagination (especially in the past when I was unaware of how much progress I have to make with my skills). It’s how I felt when I first started painting you, before I started analyzing the colors and value, then it became all work, no fun :-)

So.. Thanks again.. It’s been a lot of fun.

]]> Comment on My weekly post #3 by Rina http://ifatart.com/2012/04/my-weekly-post-3/#comment-28 Rina Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:16:09 +0000 http://ifatart.com/?p=180#comment-28 Aaaw! I am so touched you posted my drawing! =') YES! I think you had it spot on about the selective re-creation on reality in art. When I was drawing you, I focused on the interesting and attractive facial features that you have. For example, your facial features has a certain sharp but very delicate pixie-like look to it (small delicate chin, chiseled and sharp nose, perfectly arched eyebrows) so I focused on capturing those features in the drawing. I guess that's why Greg thought my drawing of you looked like a faerie-elf. It is so true about the "striving for an ideal" being the main difference between realism and romanticism in art. Aaaw! I am so touched you posted my drawing! =’) YES! I think you had it spot on about the selective re-creation on reality in art. When I was drawing you, I focused on the interesting and attractive facial features that you have. For example, your facial features has a certain sharp but very delicate pixie-like look to it (small delicate chin, chiseled and sharp nose, perfectly arched eyebrows) so I focused on capturing those features in the drawing. I guess that’s why Greg thought my drawing of you looked like a faerie-elf.

It is so true about the “striving for an ideal” being the main difference between realism and romanticism in art.

]]> Comment on Realism in painting – why and how by Greg http://ifatart.com/2011/10/realism-in-painting-why-and-how/#comment-22 Greg Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:25:17 +0000 http://ifatart.com/?p=91#comment-22 I had been thinking alot about this as well when I was taking classes. One of my favorite teachers would paint entire big pieces in just a couple of days, and they clearly gave certain ideas. I went to the Frick museum in Manhattan, and they carry tons of art at the height of the naturalist period. It's just tons and tons of portraits that took a crazy amount of skill. But I was bored through most of it, because nothing expressed any idea. That's when I started thinking about how to best formulate my idea on realism, which is basically: The only point of drawing/painting something to look real is to better express an idea since ideas are real. That's why I actually like http://www.cordair.com/picart/icarus.php more than http://www.cordair.com/larsen/icarusstudy.php I had been thinking alot about this as well when I was taking classes. One of my favorite teachers would paint entire big pieces in just a couple of days, and they clearly gave certain ideas.

I went to the Frick museum in Manhattan, and they carry tons of art at the height of the naturalist period. It’s just tons and tons of portraits that took a crazy amount of skill. But I was bored through most of it, because nothing expressed any idea.

That’s when I started thinking about how to best formulate my idea on realism, which is basically: The only point of drawing/painting something to look real is to better express an idea since ideas are real. That’s why I actually like http://www.cordair.com/picart/icarus.php more than http://www.cordair.com/larsen/icarusstudy.php

]]> Comment on Realism in painting – why and how by Uriah http://ifatart.com/2011/10/realism-in-painting-why-and-how/#comment-6 Uriah Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:46:31 +0000 http://ifatart.com/?p=91#comment-6 good post good post

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