Comments on: Artist Spotlite – Jaime Moxey

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:49:13 +0000

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By: War Roya

War Roya — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:37:31 +0000

I really love the perspective of this painting. The only thing that I thought was a bit more color on your gardeners and his the plant in the one guys hands. Otherwise the painting is very soothing. War Roya’s last blog post..Go Back and Pick Up Your Keys

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:50:42 +0000

I would like to hear your thoughts about this painting. I don’t think that I understand because of our cultural differences. Good job painting the humans.

By: Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:16:54 +0000

A very nice painting as far as you took it, but I agree with Ingrid that the values in your painting are too much the same and you have no real center of interest. I assume, the gardener with the red shirt would be the center of interest because he is located on the canvas in an area we call the “Golden Mean” or maybe even the blue door. If you wanted gardner on the right to be the center of interest, you should make sure he has the lightest lights and the darkest darks as compared to anything else on the painting. Putting him in a red shirt was a move in the right direction. The other gardener is too much in the center of the canvas to be the center of interest, so he should have values between 4 and 7, while the other gardener in the red shirt should have values 1 through 10.

I like the yellow building but its hue should have been knocked down a little by adding it’s compliment purple. More purple on the shady side of the building and left side of the tree would add interest. Your shadows are in the right place but are a little muted, especially on the one gardner and for the shadow side of the building. Based on the shadow locations on the two gardners, we can make an assumption that the sun is at 2 oclock. If so, your tree would have sunlight hitting the top 2/3 and would also case a shadow onto the dirt.

Sometimes, paying attention to the little things takes your painting from one level to the next. Keep painting, it only gets better and remember, don’t be afraid to take some artistic liberties when creating your composition. You don’t always have to paint what you actually see, sometimes painting what you don’t see is just as important.

Good luck and have a very joyous new year.

By: Lynn Marlowe

Lynn Marlowe — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:52:23 +0000

I like the detail in the clothing. The people are the main thing to look at in the picture and time was taken with them and care. The building I like but feel it could’ve been eased into the darker end more gradually unless that truly is what it looks like such a stark difference at one point. Congrats!