Posts tagged painting
Vintage Woman
Because being older does not mean having no value
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I think I’m done. And I might have a new purpose for it.
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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
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When evaluating any image, especially in the sketching stage in which you are only working with three or four values, it’s good practice to look for and design the whites because it’s the whites that direct the eye.
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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.
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Paint less and sketch more. You’ll improve your paintings because you will have visually explored the subject intensely in graphite before ever lifting a brush. By sketching more you’ll realize quickly that every image doesn’t deserve to be immortalized in a painting.
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My homage to Vermeer in oil pastel on 6” x 6” watercolor paper.
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My homage to Velazquez. Book is not mine.
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Tulips 2012 is done! I’m really pleased at how this turned out. The reader may remember that this was designed to be an update to the piece I did at age 16 in 1976 and recreated in 2011, only this time with more realistic flowers. I liked the idea of keeping some abstraction in there, though. The medium, Mungyo’s Gallery Soft Artist’s oil pastels in the black box, which unfortunately Hobby Lobby has stopped selling.
OK besides being creepy as hell, there is something very unnatural in the pose of the boy, the way he is holding the spoon, even the angle of the can. It almost looks like a pre-teen’s face is on a toddler’s body. All of which illustrates very well that you can have technical proficiency and still come out with a failed drawing or painting.
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First layers down. At first I was disappointed that the ink lines are showing through the oil pastel, but now that I look at it, I kind of like it!
