This is a work in progress. Another Artist Guild Thursday night life painting. I need to refine the face. It's looking way too big.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Here are some sketches done at Tom Huck's Evill Prints/ Dr. Sketchy's in March
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Life painting March 09
I painted this at the Artist Guild's Thurday night session. It was a 3 hour pose. I used cobalt blue (cb) and burnt sienna (bs) tinted up with soft mixing white. I also created a neutral blue black by mixing the c.b. and b.s. together and tinted that up with white too. My initial block-in was with bs using the wipe out method to denote the lights. After I let it dry for a few days, I was irritated at how hot the whole thing was looking. So to cool the whole thing off, I mixed up some purple with cobalt blue and just a touch of permanent Alizarin Crimson. Then I greyed/neutralized it a bit with my cb/bs grey.
I seem to be in love with Burnt Sienna for some reason. I just love the look it has underneath a sketch. I should probably move on to some other colour or technique, but I just can't so far. I noticed that Steve Allrich (Oil Painting for the serious beginner) seems to be in love with cad yellow. His stuff does have this nice warm happy glow. I read somewhere that we all have our pet colours depending on how our eyes are so inclined. I guess my eyes like hot red/orange.
In terms of composition, I puposely put the figure way to the left. I was getting sick of putting the model smack in the middle all the time so I tried change it up for a more interesting compostition. I don't think it's completely successful. The model's right arm draws too much attention going out of the field. I also tried to counter balance the thing with that nebular box in the bottom right corner. It was actually a cushion. I think it balances, but there is definitely too much space the upper right quadrant. Makes for much boring-ness. My overall impression of this exercise is that it definetely has something, but it is still student grade work. Sloppy, unsuccessfully composed, poorly defined facial features, poorly selling fingers that look more like curled carrot sticks, big boring parts, and colour this is rather schizophrenic. All that said, I still like it though.
I seem to be in love with Burnt Sienna for some reason. I just love the look it has underneath a sketch. I should probably move on to some other colour or technique, but I just can't so far. I noticed that Steve Allrich (Oil Painting for the serious beginner) seems to be in love with cad yellow. His stuff does have this nice warm happy glow. I read somewhere that we all have our pet colours depending on how our eyes are so inclined. I guess my eyes like hot red/orange.
In terms of composition, I puposely put the figure way to the left. I was getting sick of putting the model smack in the middle all the time so I tried change it up for a more interesting compostition. I don't think it's completely successful. The model's right arm draws too much attention going out of the field. I also tried to counter balance the thing with that nebular box in the bottom right corner. It was actually a cushion. I think it balances, but there is definitely too much space the upper right quadrant. Makes for much boring-ness. My overall impression of this exercise is that it definetely has something, but it is still student grade work. Sloppy, unsuccessfully composed, poorly defined facial features, poorly selling fingers that look more like curled carrot sticks, big boring parts, and colour this is rather schizophrenic. All that said, I still like it though.
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