Vintage Woman

Misty mountains, fallen trees, one brave survivor. Done with Cray-Pas Expressionist oil pastels, so the color palette isn’t the best. Seems like all my work is geared toward backgrounds lately. Building up the grassy area today, then I think I’m done

Well didn’t quite reach my goal of finishing this today but not far off. A la Bob Ross, I’ll put in the big tree tomorrow.

Because of the work I put in yesterday, I can afford a day off today. It’s not done but the values have been established per the value study. Just need the details. I got an idea for a unifier while in bed last night.

Show up, do the time, don’t go home until the job is done. Now I can go to bed.

Today’s sketching and thumbnails and compositions and ideas.

I like this now. It’s a roadmap to where I want to go. Now to work on the color. I hate color.. It’s my Achilles heel

Watercolor artist David Rankin’s book on sketching is proving very useful to me now, even though he’s a painter not a renderer.

Proud of myself! Got my value study started as per my production schedule. I have to figure out where does the eye naturally go. Where do I want it to go, and how do I lead it there. There’s nothing worse than not knowing what to look at.

My next project mapped out. Tomorrow will work on the value study and hopefully transfer and lay down the first colors. Ambitious, I know. Hopefully my new production schedule will help.