After taking this photo for today's progress, I realized the white brush on the left was actually slightly greenish instead of red-purplish. This is the pit hole you would fall in when you're painting from a photo. The values aren't too bad though.
At this moment adjusting values is my main focus.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Shapes are ok now
The shapes are almost ok now. Now I have to decide colors and values in shadowed area. It's not so easy. And I know very well it would define this painting. Because I decided this composition based on those shadow shapes.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Making values lighter
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Working on clouds
Although I haven't updated for this landscape for a while, I've actually been working on the clouds a little bit for last a couple of weeks. Since I don't have much experiences painting these types of clouds, I'm experimenting what would work for me or my paintings. I'm hoping to find some good brush strokes that appeal to my satisfaction. A long way to go though.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Getting right propotion
Still trying to get the right proportion of the figure, especially the head&nose compared to the body. Once I get that, I'll dig into the values of the body colors.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
New Animal Painting
It's been more than a month since last time I updated. It was a tough month Feb for me including unexpectedly long stay in Japan and now already March.
Anyway, I started a new cow painting. This time I painted with black acrylic paint on the side and all ends of painting surface. I might not paint over to the very edges but I might change my mind. Will see.
I decided putting value contrast in this early stage to get a sense of the cow shape. Just like figure paintings, I can get shapes correct relatively easily in this way. The size is 14x16.
Anyway, I started a new cow painting. This time I painted with black acrylic paint on the side and all ends of painting surface. I might not paint over to the very edges but I might change my mind. Will see.
I decided putting value contrast in this early stage to get a sense of the cow shape. Just like figure paintings, I can get shapes correct relatively easily in this way. The size is 14x16.
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