Fish's Paint + now cast drawings dec 06

[fishw]

Well, i started a regime of painting everyday. These are gonna be acrylic on roughly A6 paper, taking varying amounts of time, from life. They're to teach myself painting as my school seems to prefer not to (gotta love school) and are an extra to other painting and drawing i do. Let me know if images don't show etc. Apologies for the not-so-tasty scans.

13th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/13thfeb.jpg
30 min

[fishw]

14th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/14thfeb.jpg
15 min little tiny perfume bottle. failed

[fishw]

15th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/15thfeb.jpg
15 min little tea light candle thingy

[fishw]

16th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/16thfeb.jpg
20 min little glass bead

[fishw]

Man, failed daily already. Still i was at a conference all day both days and came home and asleep (excuses excuses bla bla)
19th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/19thfeb.jpg
40 min skin tones practice of my friend. kinda like some aspects of this for some reason

[fishw]

oh here's an older one on a4, about 90 minutes, to make up for the two day gap. horrible straight on lighting when i did this made it really boring.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/a4.jpg

[fishw]

20th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/20thfeb.jpg
30 min lamp

[m00ftak]

I really like these. I've tried acrylic recently after being committed to oils for so long and im really impressed by the quality you achieve with them. The marble and the lamp are my favorites. please keep posting these!! :confident

[iFLUFFED]

Good for you bro! This is what I've always intended to do, but always fail. The paintings are showing improvement, keep it up!

iFLUFFED

[Gilead]

These are very nice. What a cool idea!
You're getting a very oil painterly feeling to these acrylics.
What is A6 paper?

[TheTigerLily]

I like the feb 16 one the best. Keep practicing!

[fishw]

Cheers guys.
Gilead-A6 paper means it's 6 by 4 inches (roughly 14.5 by 10.5 cm).

21st Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/21stfeb.jpg
Ran outta time on this one...45min light bulbs

[fishw]

22nd Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/22ndfeb.jpg
45min a slightly better light bulb, still not there.

[Arcthurus]

Hi,

First, your paintings are very good, glad you are practicing real life....

Is that a sketchbook you are working on?...I mean, is that " acrylic prepared paper" or just a regular strong paper?

c u soon

[fishw]

Arcthurus- it's just a cheap little £2 sketchbook with regular, not particularly heavy paper (135 gsm). As they're in a sketchbook, i'm hoping that by the time it's full it should show some progess.

[fishw]

23rd Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/23rdfeb.jpg
45min pepper grinder...truely appauling scan. Just noticed that shadow now it's on screen....definitely shouldn't have rushed that off in two seconds :nohope: i tend to do that with shadows.

[egerie]

That's pretty cool. If you keep at it you're going to rock everyone in not so very long. Keep it going ! :)

[Tully]

Your colours are looking really nice here! I'd love to see some more precise edges. I'd suggest more work on the drawing, particularly perspective, but good stuff!

[fishw]

Tully- Cheers, you're right. My structure and persective is often wonky (particularly the last one...an off day). I could probably afford to spend that extra couple o minutes to get it right.

24th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/24thfeb.jpg
40min old clothes peg. again with the shadow. Colours are a little nicer in the real thing.

[Gilead]

Are you really builing up as thick a coat of paint on your backgrounds as it looks? It looks really thick, but the paper doesn't look wrinkled, how does that work?
I really like these they're fresh and spontanious.
I was so inspired that I started doing my own daily paintings.

[fishw]

Gilead- Scanning paintings does funny things, the paint isn't actually that thick. Glad to hear you're inspired...if you want real inspiration when it comes to daily painting check out Duane Keiser (http://www.duanekeiser.com/index.htm) and his painting-a-day blog. He's the man that inspired me to begin this.

[Big-Dave]

A6?! That's tiny! How can you work that small? Anyone who hasn't seen A6 before, the pictures posted here are almost full size. It's about an inch taller and 1.5 wider

Anyway, some nice work here. If you keep this going you'll definately see some improvement. Good luck with it :)

EDIT: Forgot to ask, did you sketch these in pencil first or just go straight for paint?

[fishw]

Big-Dave - It's not impossible to work small. I try to use a big a brush as possible too, to keep it fresh. No there's no under-drawing, it's just painting shapes. Thanks for stopping by.

26th Feb (failed to get one done yesterday cause i was eating obscene amounts of chinese food till late. I might try to get another one done some time to catch up)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/26thfeb.jpg
30 min pencil...boring i know

[cateaic]

These are looking good! Very fresh...I like the Feb. 22nd light bulb...that pot one is great as well.

[Arcthurus]

The light bulb and the pencil (last one) are great, there is a better approach of colors and specially shapes... I also have difficult times doing real shapes, just practice and practice....

Keep on the good work..

[fishw]

cheers. arcthurus- those are the two that i feel came out best too (apart from the base of the light bulb)

27th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/27thfeb.jpg
30min battery...really didn't feel like painting. so much wrong here it feels like a step backwards :nohope:. Determined to keep at it though

[fishw]

Tried a slightly different approach here in the way i painted today.
28th Feb:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/28thfeb.jpg
45min little ceramic jug.

[fishw]

2nd March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/2ndmar.jpg
30min lighter... appaulingly bad perspective issues .:nohope: it's interesting how the ones i do when i really don't want to paint come out so much worse. Still...this is an all-laid-bare thread so i'm gonna show each one, bad and not so bad.

[Dan1989]

I really like these, it makes me want to go try acrylics! I think if you worked on your drawing skills more these would come out much better. Best of luck to you and I hope to see more of these soon.

[ZapRadon]

what a cool idea!

I think I'll do that, too.

[Daunting]

great idea fish. it's coming along excellent keep up the excellent work.

[fishw]

sorry, i'm behind with uploading...really busy right now. ashamed to put this one up.
3rd March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/3rdmar.jpg
30 min little dice...oh dear oh dear oh dear :nohope: screw this one, i'm still gonna keep at it.

[LadyLioness]

Hey Fish, great stuff, keep it up! very inspirational, i hope to be able to do something like this when i really get into painting :P

[Gilead]

Fish: What's wrong with it? I think it looks ok. It's not supposed to be great art it's just execise.
Lioness: Start doing this and you will be really into painting.

[fishw]

yeah ladylioness, gilead is totally right. Give it a go, it's well worth it.

5th March (yeah, i was eating chinese again on friday...seems to be becoming a regular thing, which is great but it prevents me from doing this)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/5thmar.jpg
30min tomato on windowsill...unfortunately the scan obliterated all the subtle colour changes going on, but hey.

[fishw]

Won't be doing any this coming weekend, i'm going away. man, so stressed right now
6th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/6thmar.jpg
30min bottle cap

[fishw]

argh, failed to do one yesterday. i was moaning to my friend all evening about how terrible my day was...truely aweful day. Still, today is a new day and the weekend is coming.
8th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/8thmar.jpg
30min lamp...um yeah it was totally falling over while i painted it, hence the crooked stand...honest :\

[fishw]

9th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/9thmar.jpg
50min match box and match...really gotta spend time on getting shadows right, i do.

[Nike]

Hi
your thread is really inspiring. The paintings are looking great - I like the fact you are chosing so *simple* everyday life subjects like that matchbox, the dice, the jug,...that turn out reall interesting on your paintings...I'm really looking forwards to seeing more!

I definatley have to start a daily painting book, too...

[fishw]

cheers Nike
10th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/10thmar.jpg
40min fish pendant thing my friend gave me.

That's it until monday, i'm away this weekend and won't be able to paint. :)

[omarpac]

man those are gr8
keep up the good work
do u paint one subject everyday
how long on average does it take
this is trully inspiring

[fishw]

Cheers Omarpac. yeah i try to paint one every day. Sometimes of course it's not possible, like this weekend cause im gonna be away with no time to myself to paint, but i try to get one done if at all possible. They're mostly between 30 minutes and 45 min. It's a struggle and often i don't wanna do it but i never regret it when i do, it's a good stress reliever (which i need right now!).

[Victor B]

You have some very nice painting Fishw. Keep it up, do you plan on trying more mediums in the future? Oil Painting? Gouache? just a question ?

[Evil_Sloth]

Very nice, your building quite a library of paintings, this way when you combine use in a painting you'll know what they all look like.
Show us something a bit more complex like a scene.

[Lim]

you are totally improving. keep at it.
i love this one
http://members.lycos.co.uk/godworks/daily%20paint/6.3.05.jpg

very well done on the highlights!

[fishw]

man, went away for the weekend and came back so out of the routine that i only got two done since the weekend.
15th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/15thmar.jpg
40min pound coins... :\

[fishw]

vctr- i've tried guache before, not a huge fan thought it has it's advantages. One day i'll move on to oils, but it's just gonna be acrylic for now

16th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/16thmar.jpg
30min piece of pasta

[fishw]

boy oh boy i got out of the habit of this. Holidays now, which means i have time to do more, but also that i'll be away every now and then. Well, here i am, starting up again.
Went to a the caravaggio exhibit at national gallery yesterday, got me inspired to paint again.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/24thmar.jpg
Some minutes (can't remember, wasn't too long)...fan brush

[fishw]

25th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/25thmar.jpg
30min key number 25...why on earth do i paint so small? must be mad. sorry the scan came out so dark.

[Celcio]

the paintbrush one is very nice

[fishw]

cheers Celcio
I'm back again, after going away for easter. Unfortunately i'm going away again in a few days, but there we go.
29th March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/29thmar.jpg
funny chinese (?) wooden bowl thing.

[fishw]

31st March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/31stmar.jpg
metal, uh, thing (not quite sure of its exact use, it's used as a thing for flowers by my parents). I was looking at rembrandt stuff the other day, he's totally the man..the more i paint the more i respect the masters. check out this one of remembrandt's, man with a golden helmet (http://www.wga.hu/art/r/rembran/painting/portrai3/goldenhe.jpg)

[razuel]

These are all really amazing, I think I have to paint now.

[Rawcraft]

Your pictures have style, a unique quality about them very interesting.

Firstly i would like to compliment on your scanner, doing a very good job of scanning them up

To compliment your work i would like to say that i admire your blending skills and tonal use excellent job!

I would like to suggest that you focus on texture and detail, try and use black more etc and get some detail for that enhancement in realism. Also please work on your shadows, they need the most work

Asides from all that Well done and good luck for the future

[Su]

I really do like these.....inspiring indeed!

keep posting! :teeth:

[omarpac]

man keep up the hard work
i really like what u are doin
wud u post a step by step plz :bashful:

[fishw]

Well i'm back after an absolutely awesome holiday...wow great time! Apologies for these days without updates.
Thanks for taking a look guys. Rawcraft-Thanks for the useful comments.
Omarpac-I'm not sure a stepbystep from me would be worthwhile, perhaps one day. My process is putting in a coloured ground (normally burnt sienna or raw umber), then blocking in large shapes moving onto progressively smaller shapes.
12th April:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/12thapr.jpg
35min metal...duck...thing...ornament

[patternagainst]

Damn fish. Really inspiring. I would say to work on those shadows. I think your biggest thing would be to just apply perspective to the shadows rather than just blocking it out. The fan brush is really great, looks pretty real. Is there a technique behind the whole white background thing or is it just for the composition? I'm not really experienced with pushing and pulling.

Lets see a 60 minute session now...

[fishw]

patternagainst-thank you. I just read a tutorial on shadow perpsective which should help. The background colour is simply determined by what surface the object is on. There are 3 main places i paint, each with different coloured surfaces.
13th April:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/13thapr.jpg
45min yellow bowtie and cufflink.

[Dizon]

31st March:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/31stmar.jpg
metal, uh, thing (not quite sure of its exact use, it's used as a thing for flowers by my parents). I was looking at rembrandt stuff the other day, he's totally the man..the more i paint the more i respect the masters. check out this one of remembrandt's, man with a golden helmet (http://www.wga.hu/art/r/rembran/painting/portrai3/goldenhe.jpg)

wow, i have to say, that's awesome. You have a really good eye for color, detail, etc. Gotta love that Rembrandt!

metallic, bronze etc has got to be one of the coolest things one could paint.
If you get the colors right its very rewarding.

[fishw]

Thanks patzdon. I like the look of messed up old metal things, with their rough texture and tarnished surfaces over shiny clean things. Probably reflects my character (Freud would say at least)...wow just noticed an aweful pun in that sentence, totally not intended.

Anyway, so as not to be annoyig and post without any art (plus i might not manage to get one done tonight), here's a charcoal of myself. Way too big to scan so i've only got this poor quality digital pic of it, which is annoying coz it's much nicer in life..ah well.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/DSCN1307.jpg

[fishw]

hmmmm, well i'm back. Hopefully bouncing back...new term means i should be back into routine etc so daily should mean daily now...bla bla bla.
21st April:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/21stapr.jpg
wooden toys...very rusty at the moment.

[Dan1989]

Hey, this makes me want to buy some acrylics! You are doing great, I love the charcoal drawing too. All I can say is make sure you draw and paint, because each one strengthens the other. Keep up the good work.

[fishw]

well, here's a lesson to be learned. If you stop it's very hard to start again. Gilead's managed to get back on track so i'm gonna get back into it.
6th May
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/6thmay.jpg
bunch of grapes...rusty rusty rusty. amazing how quickly i get rusty.

[fishw]

played around in a totally new direction today having seen John Virtue's paintings at the national gallery.
7th May
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/7thmay.jpg
my mouth (and a bit of lower face) in front of a mirror. this is done on a4 paper (that's a regular piece of paper size...copy paper size) rather than my usual a6 (quarter of a4)

[omarpac]

am following ur every move
i tried to color with gouache
but i cant use them mind u to tell me how do u use acrylics
so i can try to use ur process with gouache

[fishw]

omarpac- well i'm flattered to have a stalker, i'm not sure what advice to give seeing as i'm no expert (not by a very very long way). Start with big shapes and move to smaller shapes, look for value more than colour. I'll try to throw together some kinda progess thing showing the steps i use. I should say i don't know much about gouache, Ron Lemen is the man to ask.

8th May
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/8thmay.jpg
40min earphone...you'll note i haven't joined the ranks of the ipod army yet.

[omarpac]

do u blend ur strokes?if so what do u use to blend them i coloured with oil but i need somethin easier to paint with at home so thats why i thought of gouache(since i have lots of colour tubes at home)
tell me the technical side of the painting process like how do u mix it with water when to add more water when to use less water
how to blend between edges i know that in oil i use a large dry brush whilst its still wet,in watercolours i soften it with a brush with little water what about acrylics what do u do
plz show me a progress
thanks in advance

[fishw]

omarpac- here we go...I almost never blend brush strokes, i don't like the look. I simply lay down layers of paint, generally fairly thick (not really thick globs of paint though), and transitions of colour are made by simply putting a few colours down in a gradient next to each other. If i do want to blend, i'll take a dry brush and blend the two wet colours as with oils. I never use water with the paint, i prefer it thicker and more like oil paints in consistency. Here's my process (not sure it's too helpful).
1. i put down a coloured ground of raw umber, quite thinly, just to get rid of the white. this helps you to judge values, and just gets paint down. photo (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/DSCN1351.jpg)
2. i block in the background, generally with a sublte temperature or value change from one side to the other (or top to bottom..it all depends on what i see). Then simple shapes get blocked in. photo (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/DSCN1348.jpg)
3. Block in shadow. Block in smaller areas, slowly helping the from to emerge. No details until right at the very end. Hightlights in the absolute last few minutes. photo (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/DSCN1349.jpg)
4. here's a really close up shot (the headphone is about an inch high just to give you an idea). photo (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/DSCN1350.jpg)
i hope you got something outta that...the best thing to do is just to paint and find out. I have a long way to go so i'm kinda embaressed to be doing this.

11th May
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/10thmay.jpg
a different headphone

[omarpac]

this was soooo helpful
cud i try to paint somethin and post it here?
so u can tell me ur opinion
when i zoomed on the photos u added
i cud see the brushstrokes
but from far away they seem blended
wooow
thanks man
i just want to make sure do u block colors in a gradient next to each other
so that they seem blended but they are really not blended
thanks again

[omarpac]

how much water do u add
i mean how do u technically use the colors?
i know its too much am sorry but i really need help

[fishw]

this was soooo helpful
cud i try to paint somethin and post it here?
so u can tell me ur opinion

i just want to make sure do u block colors in a gradient next to each other
so that they seem blended but they are really not blended
thanks again

i'd recommend starting a thread of your own and get into doing paintings (like your watercolour thread). i'l be happy to give my opinion.

i pretty much block things next to each other. sometimes it's a case of layering stuff in a way that lets you see the layers which gives a gradient. there's lots of ways of applying paint. check out Scott Burdick's demo (http://www.scottburdick.com/demoReflection.htm) which has some good words on brushwork.

I add no water. i mix paint from the tube on my palette and then apply.

12th May
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/12thmay.jpg
bagle...gotta love those cinnamon and raisin ones

[fishw]

i saw gilead was getting back into it and felt bad...stuff's really busy with exams n all now.
25th May
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/25thmay.jpg
35min onion...struggled to scan this properly.

[omarpac]

nice onion texture

[circlelimit]

Yes, I like that onion too. I hope you get to post more when your exams are done, because your work really inspires me. :)

[fishw]

took a little break from exam revision.
31st May
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/31stmay.jpg
metal goblet thing.

[fishw]

exams suck...and the beat goes on.
6th June
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/6thjun.jpg
chocolate in wrapper...i was looking forward to eating it, turned out to be totally rough.

[Gilead]

Man that foil is right on. I gotta try that. Hey can we write off chocolate as a business expense?

[AlpacaMan]

Wow nice work fish :teeth: .I cant believe you paint that small though :x

[Judy Warner]

I was doing this for a month--stopped for way too long, you inspired me to start again. But how are you painting on paper without buckling?? or maybe you just keep going over the buckles???

I love the thick paint look, but find I can't get it--guess I clean up the blending too much???

I can see I'm going to have to get a scanner---Judy

[Crusoe the Painter]

I have oil paints, and I have a easel. I should really try some of this.

I find the little accomplishments really motivate me.

[RandAlThor]

This kid has talent, keep an eye on him...

[fishw]

Judy- looks like i stopped for way too long as well. The paper i use doesn't seem to buckle that much at all. There's a little bit of a curl at the corner but not much. I think it's a case of how thick the paper is and how much water is added to the paint (in my case, almost none). As for getting a "thick paint look", i think getting higher quality paint helps, as cheaper paint seems to go down to nothing no matter how thickly you apply it.

6th July
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/6thjul.jpg
half a lemon...eugh. i tried to do something new but i didn't seem to succeed.

[fishw]

filled that little book i was using, so now i'm into a new book that's twice the size. This one is a5 (roughly 8 by 6 inches), though i still seem to be painting really small. Perhaps i should become a minaturist.


big jump in time...


13th August
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/13thaug.jpg
a bottle of brown ink. My first real attempt at painting a glass object, quite a challenge.

[dorian]

jeez, man, compare these:

13th of Feb.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/13thfeb.jpg

13th of Aug.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/13thaug.jpg


:$
you're really improving, you'll be kickin the other charles h. cecil student's asses!
I'm definitely going to paint more after seeing this, thanks!

don't stop!


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[fishw]

cheers for the encouragement. Well the daily exercise idea seems to have disintegrated as i've had to focus on paintings for school bla bla bla. anyhoo, that's not to say i'm not gonna try to paint more studies like these as often as possible.

19th November
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/19thnov.jpg
Well i didn't exactly give myself something easy to get back into the flow. this one armed tin soldier is less than 2 inches high, so lots of looking really hard.

[fishw]

and now for something completely different...
last weekend, 12th November
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/12thnov.jpg
i went outside for the first time (to paint, that is). Really overcast day, and i was standing in the rain for most of it. how do plein air painters do it, with all the light changing etc? full respect.

[fishw]

hey hey, it's an update...
21st December
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/21stdec.jpg
the last light of a grey day. great fun to do, tough though. By the end of the hour i spent putting this down, it was really pretty dark...last time i paint in the evening.

[Gilead]

I like it. Changing light is a pain, but painting a night scene would be a pretty interesting challenge.

[fishw]

i know it's a painting thread, but i didn't wanna take up space with bringing my old life drawing thread to the top...here's a couple of quickies just to show where i'm at with line drawing. i need to do more life drawing.

20min
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figurea.jpg

3min
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figureb.jpg

[fishw]

slapped out a quick one just to get the paint flowing again.
3rd January
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/3rdjan.jpg
shiny ball and tangarine

i got some gouache for christmas from my uncle so i sketched my mouth to figure out how gouache works. it's really foreign to me...i'm gonna have to play a bit more.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/3rdjana.jpg
yes...apparently i pout when i'm concentrating. some people stick their tongues out, i pout.

[MarkHarchar]

Fish, you have some really nice painting excercises here. You have given me some ideas for my daily paintings. Keep 'em coming. I'm gonna stop back.

[fishw]

cheers hylandr. i can't wait until i have time again to paint more regularly. school swamps me at the moment, it's seriously frustrating. i hope you manage a more regular schedule than me, it's very rewarding.

anyway, thought i'd post these life drawings here.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figurec.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figured.jpg

paintings coming as soon as possible hopefully. i got inspired by some great stuff at the London Art Fair yesterday.

[fishw]

sorry, more life drawing...yawn. still, i enjoy doing it. these are roughly 10 minuters.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figuref.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figureh.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figureg.jpg
trying to mess around with proportion. didn't really work, but hey.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figuree.jpg

[blacky]

Hey,
I totally enjoy your paints. Great effort and nice improvement. Don't stop on them. Landscapes are coming out rather nicely too. Very healthy exercise, something I'd have to do too once it gets warmer.
You should try a more finished painting sometime. Like a stillife.
Nice Lifedrawings too, realy loose. Some studies on proportions and weightdistribution wouldn't hurt though.
So long...

[fishw]

cheers blacky. yeah, my knowledge of proportions and anatomy is shocking. fortunately i have a 4 month summer holiday coming up in 3 months exactly where i plan to do some intensive studying of anatomy, perspective and colour. very far away, but i currently have far too much schoolwork to concentrate on to give it more than a quick look over at the mo.

so anyway, i'm back with paint. but oil paint...aagh! it's like i'm learning to paint all over again, i have exactly the same feeling as i did when i first pulled out some acrylics and started playing....basicaly i have no idea what i'm doing and it's very awkward. but here we are nonetheless, my first time touching oils.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/18thfeb.jpg
yeah...so you probably have no idea what it is. it's actually a bone i found. if anybody has any amazing links to a very very simple intro to oils, i'd love it. there's a million pages out there, so any recomendations are uber welcome.

[fishw]

life drawing time. had a model with a bit of drapery for a change, which was quite fun.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figurel.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figurek.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figurej.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/figurei.jpg

by the way, how does one change the title of the thread?

[MarkHarchar]

Nice lines man. How long did they give you for each pose? To change the title, you have to edit the first entry and then choose advanced.

[fishw]

cheers hylandr. they're about 10-15 minutes

[asoir]

I knew it was a bone! Great paints, inspirational.

[fishw]

ok, back from the dead. kinda. been really busy with school art but i've finally finished it, had my show etc. managed to sell a piece, which is my first sale (still discussing price, since i've managed to land myself a bidding war between two people wanting to buy...sweet).
first, a self portrait (from a photo unlike usual). pretty old, and pretty disgusting.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/mepaint.jpg

second, the sold piece. again, based on photo rather than from life.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/Other/beach.jpg

i'm hoping to get back to painting daily from life in 6 weeks when i leave school and start having free time again.

[GNL]

Top dog.


I owe u a visit and a thank you - cheers 4 mentioning the pearce book on here ages ago. Did u like the book?

where do you goto school in london?

cheers

g

[airrunkle]

Awesome work and what a great idea!
I cant get over that foil one... sweet stuff - keep it up

[timmyhol]

This is a great thread! it really shows your progression. Your hardwork is paying off and you've got some cool studies here. I think you've got a really good sense of colour too, keep going! it would be great to see more.

All the best

Tim

[fishw]

resurrected yet again, with my own cast drawings (in chronological order)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/DSCN2156.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/DSCN2177.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Fishw/venus.jpg

[the_allejo05]

nice cast drawings..one big critique..unless it is a quick sketch or study..i still can see a line separating the shadows from the light..if you look at shadows..that transition from light to dark should be smooth gradated tones..hard lines only in sharp places.. think of sfumatto..treat shadows like smoke..hardly any outline..these are more noticeble in the foot shadow and underneath the chin of Dante. Nice drawings though..sight size i presume?

[timmyhol]

Hi
I really like your cast drawings, I think the top and bottom are the most sucessful. The foot is great but some of the hightlight edges seem a little soft. I've only done three cast drawings, but when I do then Im standing back about 5/6 foot from the cast, is sight size when your right up next to it measuring with a plumb line etc? What school do you go to?
Cheers
Tim

[fishw]

cheers allejo, i'll def keep that in mind with the next drawings.
timmyhol...i'm at charles cecil. we do sight size, which means standing far back as you do (nearer 8 feet back i guess). i don't really go in for plumb lines, they're horribly inaccurate and don't help train your eye nearly as much.

[Dizon]

cheers allejo, i'll def keep that in mind with the next drawings.
timmyhol...i'm at charles cecil. we do sight size, which means standing far back as you do (nearer 8 feet back i guess). i don't really go in for plumb lines, they're horribly inaccurate and don't help train your eye nearly as much.


I don't use plumb lines either cuz my hands just keep shaking haha. Frustrating.

Do they teach free-hand drawing at Cecil?

[fishw]

you're surprisingly free in you're approach. You take it to the level of finish you want (with the type of finish you want too...hatched, blended, mixture) and different people go about things slightly differently. It's interesting to see actually.
I tend to knock in, free-hand, a few little marks, moving around the whole image, slowly building up a sense of the overall shape, taking visual measurements of opposite contours etc. All the time, checking in a mirror. Then you get more specific. The idea is that when you put a mark down, it's not necassarily (and generally is not) that accurate, so you shift things about and get progressively specific.

[Dizon]

Cool. But what I meant was, does he teach other methods of drawing besides sight-size? Like just simple free-hand drawing where you don't have to set-up in sight-size.

[Deselect]

Great stuff. I am thoroughly impressed and shall decide to give acrylics another shot. After all, with lack of studio space and all of my pets, oils are impossible for the time.
You capture reflections and shine very well.
Do you not experience problems with your paper buckling beyond belief by painting on it? I have had only problems painting on paper.