Weekly BobBlast Issue 344

Consider your Point of View, Part Two

Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!

BobBlast Part Two of "Consider Your Viewpoint."

In this BobBlast we feature Landscapes.

To reiterate from the previous BobBlast, Part One:

The viewpoint is you, the artist, looking at what you are about to paint. There's no right or wrong choice of viewpoint, it's one of the first decisions you make, as you design your composition and begin your painting.

Consider your point of view… Is it ordinary and common? Or unique and memorable? The paintings that get my attention are the ones where the painter did something different - and surprised me!

I have always thought Hockney’s Mulholland Drive series are brilliant, with twisting and turning in 2-dimensional perspective. Other surprising, memorable paintings are Thiebaud's city streets and hillsides with their wildly distorted views - appear flattened out with no clear perspective point of view.

I am working on a new series called "From 30,000 Feet" - my point of view is aerial, looking straight down - you know, from an airplane. I know everyone has looked out the window in an airplane and thought to themselves "I should paint this!" I finally did and I am delighted and surprised!

Point of view… it doesn’t matter what it is. Have one.

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