I'm new to this area.

[blueeyedfairyinpink]

:blah: This is the first time I posted in this forum. I took this picture and then I painted it.

http://img259.echo.cx/img259/5931/painted27zf.jpg

This one I created from my mind and a little influance from the last picture.

http://img259.echo.cx/img259/5060/painted1xi.jpg

Please tell me wht you think. :blahblah:

[thebluepuppy]

good start.keep practicing... maybe next time brings your paints with you and paint the landscape...

[Coiela]

Just a suggestion,

The clouds in the top of the page all seem to be on the same plane, as in they don't look like they're traveling into the distance. Maybe try varying tones and values a little, as well as shrinking some down and overlapping some to give the illusion of depth.
Even if this is what they look like in the photo, some times it's necessary to take some "artistic license" to make it work with paint.
Also, on those clouds, they look like you painted them by tapping the end of your brush straight onto the canvas, which isn't a bad technique, but you might try softening the edges and blending them overall a bit so that the technique isn't so apparent.
Keep painting!!

[Prehistoric]

i like the one from the photo better. keep working on your values.

and please, crop the images. the white space distracts from the image.

[blueeyedfairyinpink]

:} thanks for the advice i tried to crop them so that the white didnt show but my photoshop program that my scanner is linked to was giving me problems, but thanks the nest time i post more i will try harder to make sure there is no white. Also your right about the clouds they were painted the same as the picture, but i am just learning this is the first two pictures that i have ever painted i have one that i just finished but it is much to big to scan i have to take a photo of it and then scan it that way. I didnt have time to do it today. but thak you all any ways for the advice. much appreciated. :rendered:

[rex]

Hi blue,

I looks to me like you have a good eye, particularly for color. That isn't to say that the colors in your paintings aren't a little muddy, but it's the kind of muddiness that everybody's paintings have near the start. You'll develop more instincts about your medium in time.

When I was in school one of my professors gave an assignment that I hated at the time, but which made me a much better painter. We had to paint a self portrait every day--a small one, maybe on a piece of 4x6 or 5x7 illustration board--for a month. We weren't supposed to take more than a half hour to an hour to do each one. I started off monochromatically and added colors as I got more confident. Anyway, it was amazing how much we all improved in a short period of time. Just a thought.

[DSillustration]

probably the first thing that lables a new painter as a beginner is "dabbing".
you need more "stroke" in your brush stroke.
this will make your edge control take on much more important.
if you dab, everything has the same edge... that flattens it out.

[blueeyedfairyinpink]

thank you again for the advice. The paintings that you see dont do the actual work justice. i wish you could see the actual painting in it originality they look so much better then they do on the computer. but yes i do thank you for you advice and with think about doing the self port everyday thing and maybe your right it just might help me with my colors. thank you again and please keep the coments comming and when i paint something new i will post it right away. thank you again. :bashful: