This is my first time attempting a painting in this particular style. (Well, it’s actually draft 3; but it’s part of my first series of attempts.) I’m not sure what the style is called, but it’s the one where most of the subject as it exists in the world (or the artist’s visual field) is deliberately indistinct, or not depicted at all. My automatic inclination (at least up to this point in my study of visual art) is to attempt to convey every part of my subject in full detail. Instead, I tried to choose a tiny number of details to convey more precisely, just the ones most evocative of the heart of my visual experience of Beck Chapel’s exterior in Fall. Not only do I think this is a far better way to capitalize on the properties of watercolor as a medium, but it’s meant to echo the central strategy of this post, which is to aim limited attentional resources precisely at the experiences that matter.
Much gratitude to @Duncan_Sabien for digitally editing this and all my other LW illustrations. It’s a pain the butt to get this kind of indistinct frameless thing to blend nicely into the particular white of the LW background. He’s also tweaked a couple other elements that didn’t turn out quite the way I’d hoped.
Behind the painting:
This is my first time attempting a painting in this particular style. (Well, it’s actually draft 3; but it’s part of my first series of attempts.) I’m not sure what the style is called, but it’s the one where most of the subject as it exists in the world (or the artist’s visual field) is deliberately indistinct, or not depicted at all. My automatic inclination (at least up to this point in my study of visual art) is to attempt to convey every part of my subject in full detail. Instead, I tried to choose a tiny number of details to convey more precisely, just the ones most evocative of the heart of my visual experience of Beck Chapel’s exterior in Fall. Not only do I think this is a far better way to capitalize on the properties of watercolor as a medium, but it’s meant to echo the central strategy of this post, which is to aim limited attentional resources precisely at the experiences that matter.
Much gratitude to @Duncan_Sabien for digitally editing this and all my other LW illustrations. It’s a pain the butt to get this kind of indistinct frameless thing to blend nicely into the particular white of the LW background. He’s also tweaked a couple other elements that didn’t turn out quite the way I’d hoped.