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GaryDoc
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 12:57 pm: |  |
Besides...Joe sells a great set of plastic cropping mats and has a dvd on how to use them. (I do have them!) |
Suzy
| | Posted on Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 6:50 am: | |
The idea and theory of not cropping is simply to force us to plan ahead, think through our compostion, etc. That should alway be "PLan A"
However life, and paintings, rarely goes as it should and everyone should have a "Plan B"
Cropping a painting is an excellent "Plan B" . Sometime the cropping process gives us a whole new direction we never thought of while planning the original painting. |
Raliegh
| | Posted on Saturday, August 12, 2006 - 8:37 pm: | |
All's fair in art and sales! (as far as cropping, determining size and view) |
Eugene
| | Posted on Saturday, August 12, 2006 - 10:35 am: | |
Sometimes, in one of my “failures”, I can find a section I like, and by cropping, can get a nice little picture. I’ve had instructors who think this is wrong. -- that we should plan our compositions well enough first so that cropping will not be needed. I agree that planning is important, but there are times when I change my mind in the middle of a painting. or see a mistake , or do a bad wash. But there IS a section that does work. And I don’t hesitate to resort to cropping. What are your feelings?
But Beware! Once I entered a contest to paint a picture of an historic church. It won the $500 prize. After I painted the picture I realized that it included too much background , so when I framed it I cropped about 3 inches all around with the mat. Later I granted permission to make prints of it for a fund raiser. When they unframed it they were delighted to find a much bigger painting and proceeded to make the print of the whole thing. I learned a lesson! If you do crop, cut off the unwanted parts. |
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