Light is everything: Interview with Seth Haverkamp

I like the idea of blue, i.e. make green next to yellow, etc. So if this falls into the Impressionism or something, that’s cool.
Does the restrictive color palette force you to get inaccessible to painting in other ways?
See above. Ha ha. I’m not sure. I really don’t think so. I can have four different versions of each color and probably make them work. This is the tone of the earth, especially the green that I have to be careful not to use. I do use a brown color, but this is always pure. I don’t use white or use it in the mixture. If I try to mix many different colors from many different colors, I don’t think I’ll pick up the variations of various colors. It is color blindness, forcing me to draw the way I paint.
In some of your works, almost like the painting technique you use can be described as impressionism, perhaps some context even points to the portrayal…
I love the details, face and hands and try to be as detailed as possible, colorful and perfect as possible. My background and other areas have already produced a more abstract feeling, and the paintings set in reality have abstract elements. I stumbled upon this watercolor technique a few years ago when I couldn’t finish any painting. The portrait will be done, but the background is not. I was happy to realize that sometimes you can let go of things and voila, the background I splashed out was born. I put the painting down and then put the thin glaze down and splash another color or 3 kinds into it. With many layers you can achieve some interesting results. What I want to do now is keep the splash and apply it to real-world elements. cloth, clouds, ground, whatever it is. I really like the idea of painting the iris and face with a tiny brush and then a large brush throws the paint around and makes them work together.
I won’t think about Impressionism or anything else. I do what I want to do and hope it works well for the painting. If it keeps the audience interested, that’s great. I do like bright colors, I like the idea of blue is the green next to yellow and so on.
I like how, because of Impressionism and other sports, we have the possibility to express whatever we want as needed. It is pleasing to use a bright palette similar to a bright haystack and to use it to paint portraits.
Many of the contexts in these latest works seem to be a characteristic of their own. I can get lost…
That’s very cute. Thanks. It is a joy to develop and utilize this technique to complement the subject and have your own personality. I’m adding weight to the painting for added drama and not too classic in the final look. I have a strong opinion on what I want the brush to look like, and it’s not chaotic or perfect in appearance or painting. Strangely, even though it is painted, for me, splashes don’t fall into this category. After I solved, finished and controlled, for me, my background tickled the boxes. If one can get lost there for a while, that is a huge victory in my book, especially those more new victory in the landscape.