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How to succeed with The Carder Method
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and check it properly. After you do it this slow way long enough, you WILL begin to see...I promise!
8. Adjust your colors as you paint if needed. You have already mixed your base colors, you have a
well organized palette, so now play with it, mix new colors, feel free, but always based on what your
Color Checker tells you to do.
9. DO NOT BLEND! You knew that one was coming. It is fine to paint over other colors after
checking again. It is ok to re-check an area and go back and paint it in with the correct color. But do
NOT look at your object and think, "I should fix that"....do not fix, do not try and make it look like
what you think your object should look like!!!! Just check often, check again, fill in, do not
blend...blending, if needed, comes at the end!
10. When you do have all your colors laid in, you are ready to blend. DO NOT sit back, look at your
object and then just jump into your painting and start playing with it and try to make it look "right".
Instead, look at your object, then look at your painting, and ask "what is the difference?" Fix ONE
problem at a time. Ask which one is more soft, which has a smoother "blend" or transition from
shadow to highlight, which one is more rounded on the edge, does that line in my painting have a
steeper angle, etc. etc. etc. Slower but surely, almost magically, your painting will start to look just
like the object! What is the difference? One problem at a time!
THIS IS THE DEAL! All of the above is totally do-able IF you go SLOW.
If I ask you to follow the above rules to the letter and you think about doing the still life below, it
may seem overwhelming. The temptation to rush through it in one or two days is great.
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On the other hand if I ask you to follow the above rules and paint one of the following sections, then
it doesn't seem so daunting.
emily-detail-1.jpg
emily-detail-2.jpg
emily-detail-3.jpg
The point being you CAN do this IF you take it one small step at a time. You will not be painting like
this forever, at this point you are only try to do ONE painting that is GREAT. Prove to YOURSELF that
you CAN do it! Once you jump that huge hurdle, the next painting will go so much easier because
you will know what needs to be done. AND you will learn to see like an artist, AND you will begin to
KNOW HOW TO DO IT! You will see through all these crazy optical illusions. Once you can see like an
artist you will know how to paint. Before long you will painting quicker and need the Color Checker
and the PD less and less.
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My promise: If you finish a painting and it is not GREAT realism. I will be able to tell you exactly
which rule above you did not follow. Not because you just did not have the "talent", but because
you simply did not take your time and do it.
Emily painted this painting before she watched the DVD. I had given her the basics of the method,
but she said "I just want to have fun" (which is TOTALLY fine if that is what you want to do). So she
painted this in one day:
After she watched the DVD, I asked her to do just do ONE painting following the rules to the letter. I
said "just paint one peach". So she painted one peach...then two, then three. Soon every one of her
friends and family was saying "I never knew you had so much talent".
Now everyone wants her to do a painting for them!
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Mark Carder
maryann
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Right now I'm just going for realism. It's the only way I can learn.
My Websites:
http://andersonscott.org/home.html
http://thepaletteandbrush.blogspot.com/
anderson
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culuz
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kathyinbama
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Mark Carder
drjohn71a
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drjohn71a wrote:Thanks for putting this info back into the site, Mark. As for going ahead onto other
projects with rapid brush stroke, I can say from personal experience on my 2nd painting (first from a
photo, but 2nd Quasi Carder Method) that it is quickly evident on which portions of a painting the
painter left the Carder Method and started just painting what he/she thought ought to be there. I
am learning a great deal on this 2nd one even though it, so far, has not been pure "Carder". Of
course, I am having to go back and correct the "non Carder" areas now! But, I am learning!
John
I try to teach realism and I know I can stress the points that I think can be helpful in achieving it, but I
hope everyone understands that I do not ultimately think there is "right" way to paint. Some of my
favorite artists work in methods that are completely different. In fact I do not paint according to the
Carder Method, however I follow most of the basic principles.
This is why I don't like to talk about what is good art and what is bad, everyone has different tastes.
But what I can do is say "here is a method to learn how to paint what you see".
So please do not feel like I am "disappointed" if you deviate from the "method"!!!!
Mark Carder
Mark Carder
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First I want to appolizige for any bad writing I done in the past .
A bad artist phase I was struggling through I guess .
I am not a good poster , a known fact ha .
Forgive me for that short coming .
Before I left I was working on a work .
Sadly it dried up while I was gone .
Somthing about working wet on wet that hooks a Artist I guess .
I had 63 production hours down the drain it seems .
Oh well I am not going to let it beat me , and I will keep working on it.
You guys are doing some really super work , and I often wondered when I was away what you was
working on .
Charles
Art in my case , a bad habit . Hard to live with it ,, but impossible to live without it
charles
Marty
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it will be once I set it up with lights. But I thought I would put a few things together.
I would like my painting to be simplistic.. Do you think it's okay if my still life is not made up of highly
reflective items? Or is that the whole point of the effect you can achieve. I don't really have a table
yet that I don't have to paint and shabby-up. So I thought this chair I antiqued and rubbed out would
work. Is this crazy or what. Should I set up on a table like everyone is doing? Also a shiny cover
wouldn't suit the set-up the same way since shiny doesn't go to well with this feeling. Is the quilt a
bad idea? Also should what about the floor a dark or light color? And last but not least, In the picture
the background is my wall on the main floor. My studio will have a black background. I thought I
might build a false wall (Log look) or put an old chippy door behind it to have a contrast to the black
chair. Sorry for so many questions at once.
Any comments would be apprieciated. Thanks
shabbytreasures
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But it looks great and I like choice of items . Has a country feel
charles
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good point
now i thought looking down at it was kind of cool,,, so that angle may not be a good painting
compared to looking at it straight on?
maryann
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I like it on the chair alot. And I love the the quilt. It will give
This is going to be so fantastic! I can already see it in my head. It's an excellent choice!!!!
ruthe
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Dottie
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