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RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Rich - 03-29-2022
(03-28-2022, 04:18 PM)Adamphotoman Wrote: Rich, I like the water colour. You got rid of most of the pencil lines. How did you do that?
Thanks Grant! Just lucky I guess! I just paint right up next to the lines and it doesn't seem to be a problem. I read somewhere that a few pencil lines showing is not a problem. In fact this person thought it added to the interest. Go Figure!
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Adamphotoman - 03-29-2022
Probably helps define edges!
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Adamphotoman - 03-29-2022
Another study in loose lines and blocked in shapes.
Trying to describe more with less.
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Dave - 05-08-2022
I'm inexcusably late getting into this thread.
Some very impressive art here damar, Don, Rich, Grant, Michael, and Natalie. You folks are multi-talented.
I finally got around to starting my latest try at watercolors, with the goal of producing very loose and colorful paintings. Loose and expressive would be a huge change for me.
But since I'm convinced that good values (the darks and lights) are as critical in painting as in photography, I've begun with a value sketch. It's taken from a book by Jean Haines (she encourages readers to copy the paintings in her book as practice). I chose to emulate one of her sketches of a baby elephant.
There are some things in my value sketch that I'm pleased with, and others that could be much better: it's much looser than I've ever done, the values are pretty good (especially leaving white around the eye), and I think the proportions of the elephant are pretty accurate and I got a reasonably believable sense of it's stride. And I like how leaving a white edge above the head draws the eye to that important area. On the other hand the trunk needs some work to look realistic and the foreground is pretty lame.
But overall, I'm pleased with this first attempt. I got some practice with some of Jean's recommended techniques, and I'm eager to move on to a color sketch of something that appeals to me as much as this baby elephant does.
Anyway...
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Rich - 05-09-2022
Appears I have been a little slow here too!
Grant, I think you have achieved what you went looking for. It's always good to let the viewer fill in the blanks, so to speak. Paper looks like it has a lot of "tooth". Homemade?
Dave, yes, values are all important and you did very good for the first one in a long time! Welcome back!
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Adamphotoman - 05-09-2022
Dave, Nice job for such a long hiatus from watercolour painting. Loose is good too....
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Luv2shoot - 05-10-2022
Dave, I would be tempted to buy that painting. I love your style and how you used your creative license. Well done, Dave. Looking forward to seeing more.
Grant, I like how the viewer is left to figure things out. Your painting is interactive. It is like you gave a little but allowed the viewer to finish the shapes, lines, etc., themselves.
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Dave - 05-10-2022
Thanks for the encouragement, folks.
I'm trying to stick to a routine of painting for at least an hour each day, and I prefer to do that outside, usually sometime after 1:00 PM when the sun strikes the paper from over my left shoulder. So here is my setup, tucked near pots of spring veggies in the outer yard...
Left to right: 1) leaning against a stump is the cover for one of my large palettes ; 2) resting on the stump is my reference material - in this case a wonderful book by Jean Haines; 3) resting on the folding stool (for this photo) is my large palette. I have two - this one with vivid colors and another that is based on a split-complementary method, although when I'm sketching with just a few colors I use one of several small palettes - whatever palette I am using sits on the small square paver when I'm sitting on the stool; 4) the folding stool; 5) above the palette is a folding table; it has a mesh storage feature where I keep whatever brushes and pigments I'll use; 6) I place my adjustable table easel on this table; 7) on the right edge of the table is some drinking water and in this case a bottle of Mickey's; 8) to the right of the stool is my large water container which I keep clean for mixing hues and adding water to the painting; and at far right is my modified brush cleaner/holder.
I almost always have my camera out there with me, usually resting on the large rock at bottom center. Sometimes to photograph my work as it progresses (or often regresses), and often to take pics of a visiting hummingbird or some of the various flowers in the yard when I'm waiting for the sketch/painting to dry.
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Dreamin - 05-10-2022
Dave, so glad you decided to take up painting again. Your elephant study is nice and loose. I have trouble with loose.....Thanks for sharing your painting set up....seems like a lot to get out and put away, though.....
Hope you are feeling better....
Sometimes I want to get out my paints, but I think I must still be in a slump/depression......cannot get motivated to do much at all.....it does not help to have painful, arthritic hands and a bad back......not getting any better, even after physical therapy....sigh
RE: Post your other non-phtographic art here. - Rich - 05-10-2022
Dave, love the setup and envy you for it being outside. In this neck of the woods it would be gone in the blink of an eye because of our wind!