Olk so it’s now been just about a month since I put brush to small canvas, I think the first one was actually started on the 13th but 10.. 10 is a nice round number so that’s how i’ll track it.
Short version, 7 paintings ‘done’, tons of fun, learned a lot, only abandoned one without any hope of redemption (#3).
Big Takeaways:
- I have GOT to find a better way to take photos of paintings, these colors are all sorts of messed up.
- I’m working with a very limited palette and I’m STILL overwhelmed by color choices, I attempted to mitigate that bit with #7 with mixed results.
- Making my own greens (I’m not using any tube greens at all, everything is mixed) is so much fun!
- I’m skipping too many steps to get to the rendering, I need better defined blocking and resist the details until its set.
- Finding the shadow shapes looks easy until you’re staring at a nose trying to make up your mind where it begins.
The colors on this REALLY aren’t right
This started off as a value study and it went all sorts of wrong, and then everything made it worse.. But I must admit I’m pretty happy with how a lot of the little primrose buds came out.
Limiting my Palette even more (black, white, alyzerin crimson, prussian blue and burnt umber), to try and just be able to focus on getting the proper soft/hard edges in the shoulder and neck, which I must admit I’m quite happy with. The wet clothes had a really neat transition from where they stick to the body and crinkle up, and I’ll be the first to admit that it was less than successful in that regard.
