the life painting Thread.

[le_fish]

Out sketching again...

http://www.remtek.net/0/the-fish/default/images/01/228.jpg

[le_fish]

MORE!!!
http://www.remtek.net/0/the-fish/default/images/01/229.jpg

[Farvus]

I saw some landscape paintings here so here are mine from ArtCamp2006 in Pilsen (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=73245).

Tempera on cardboard.
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/6990/artcamp09pp2.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6370/artcamp10jq2.jpg
http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/7287/artcamp13tw8.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3372/artcamp14ew1.jpg

[Blue Severin]

Geeze, you guys are cranking out some great stuff. I painted a self portrait last week, had goggles and a towel and became a "Flying Ace." Costuming could have been better, but it was more fun than just straight up drawing myself.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a144/jbrassell/flyingace.jpg

[le_fish]

Another on location study.

http://www.remtek.net/0/the-fish/default/images/01/231.jpg

[le_fish]

Sketching with my buddies again. Loads of fun.

http://www.remtek.net/0/the-fish/default/images/01/232.jpg

[Jens]

these are pretty old, first is acrylics, second gouache


http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/sp2.jpg

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/s36b.jpg

[Blue Severin]

le fish, that red bush is sweet. Here's a portrait I did this morning. Photo didn't get the colors or values right, maybe I'll update it when I get a better photo.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a144/jbrassell/Christen.jpg

[puckdewd]

20"x16" Grisaille, oil on canvas.

http://electricsynapse.com/oils/091106boxinggloves.jpg

[Blue Severin]

Sweet shadows on those puckdewd. Got another portrait fairly finished, and this is the best place for those.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a144/jbrassell/Cynthia2.jpg

[orionlesc]

buf,puckdewd,your piece is very nice!

just to show mine,I did it yesterday night,from a photograf of a friend,is better to don´t show the photo,because you will see my drawing is very bad!XDD

so,I hope you like the piece whitout context.
thanks,and sorry my bad inglish.

[Blue Severin]

sweet lighting on that piece. Love the earring. Got some more life paintings, and so i'll post them. Crits welcome.

[Blue Severin]

finished another one. Looks like this thread may be dead, or at least slow.

[N.L.R. Survivor]

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i255/mcwigen/IMG_0743.jpg

[Seedling]

bread!

[Seedling]

. . .and meeeee!

[Brittons]

Hi Guys,

I see all this work up here and thought I would join with a couple of paintings from life.

[Adam Carnes]

It's been a while since I have checked out this site and thread. The thread does seem to be dying. Anyways, I really enjoy all of the great ideas and artwork on Concept Art. Here is my recent contribution.

http://adamcarnes.com/link2art/dante-web.jpg

Brittons- nice work. I would like to see some more attention to detail. I do like some of the loose brush strokes.

Seedling- on the head shot painting: a little flat. More contrast and rendering of form. Cropping bugs me a little. I think that it is the ear and neck. The angles and foreshortening seem off slightly. If you rendered it more, it would be a decent painting.

on the bread painting: I like the simplicity. Good work.

N.L.R. Survivor- very flat and bad proportions. You need to study your anatomy and do a lot of life drawing/painting. For example, the arm has a sausage look. Use more paint and work faster. I don't know how long you spent on the painting, but it looks like you are being very timid with the paint. Also, do more gesture drawings too.

Blue Severin- your style is good. Although, it looks like you need to push the paintings more. Some areas lack information.

orionlesc- I like the pose. the fingers and arm need to be rendered more. The ear ring is not quite a circle. The ear lacks information. basically needs more work.

Blue Severin- on the first painting, on this page: Very nice. I like this one the best. needs a little more work.

puckdewd- looks good. decent piece.

[le_fish]

Brittons - Nice stuff.

Been away for a while. Here are couple of studies from this week.

http://www.remtek.net/0/the-fish/default/images/01/233.JPG

http://www.remtek.net/0/the-fish/default/images/01/234.JPG

[bengine]

Le_fish, beautiful! I like the turquoisecolour shading on her left cheek, sweet.

Is there any other good trad. art forums?

[Adam Carnes]

le_fish- I like your style. Your use of color and brush strokes work very well. I like the looseness of the bottom painting. It has a degas feel. I like the style of the face on the top painting. I feel that the bottom of it starts to get lost though. Good studies.

[Josef Sy]

I did this during an art festival. Just a study from a picture taking at the Montreal workshop. Also did a portrait of the same model.
http://www.josefsy.com/graphics/photo/FPM_figure.jpg
http://www.josefsy.com/graphics/photo/FPM_workSpace.jpg

[puckdewd]

There are a few minor issues I'll probably resolve without the model (a few edges are bothering me) but otherwise this one is done!

http://electricsynapse.com/oils/101106_Day3of3.jpg

[bengine]

There are a few minor issues I'll probably resolve without the model (a few edges are bothering me) but otherwise this one is done!



Oooh, love the colours, all the parts seem spot on to me. I really like the strokes and colours of the chair, woho!

[darkwolfb87]

Great stuff everybody, this thread is very inspiring :)

[Burtzum]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c41/Burtzum/redhead.jpg

From yesterday. Was too scared to do face. And too inept to get more down in that time. :rolleyes: (2 hours)

[vigostar]

man this thread makes me go out and buy some guache and acrylics.... im going to do that too.... fuck it.... not like anything else is working for me...

[miljenko]

En plein air. Watercolors.

[Cameronator]

New to the forum, Just wanted to say some fine work going on here

abcart, Mermuse, and Christian - realy nice pieces

[Layil]

welcome cameronator... lets see your stuff!
:)

[the_allejo05]

a 15 min oil sketch..
http://images.artwanted.com/large/08/18782_406808.jpg .. colors are off..bad picture..i used brown,blue,and white...no black

[miljenko]

a 15 min oil sketch..
colors are off..bad picture..i used brown,blue,and white...no black


Hi Allejo, nice quick painting.

I am also one of those to whom appeals the idea of not using black in painting, but rather mixing brown and blue (e.g. burnt umber and ultramarine blue or some other combination), even though there are many great artists who do use black (I wonder whether Rembrandt used it, because of all that black and dark in his paintings). I also like to get those neutral greyish tones by mixing green and red and stuff like that instead of just mixing black and white. That way, black is not just black, but it looks richer. Same for the greyish tones. But then again, I might not be the person to talk about these things since I have only done watercolor and some acrylics (but also in a watercolor way mostly) and never touched oils (would like to, no doubt).

[the_allejo05]

Miljenko..well I do use black..just not for this..:) , I was searching for my complementary colors and wanted to see how this two colors reacted with one another....and well i ended up just dissing this brown and blue..I have a better combo hehe.. I always like the advice of Manet , that without black painting is not a painting..even though I like the rich blacks,grays done from complementary colors ,still those contain colors and black is the total absence of light and having that neutrality plays a nice balance with colors.. IM still trying to find the right black ..although im pretty much settle..I still would advice you to learn to paint with black, all the old masters did..and as you mentioned rembrand he did use a blue black and ivory black (i think), very very limited palettes for all of them (when painting with a limited palette you'll be surprised how much black is an aid to get those gray tones)..although the reinassance had a richness of color unmatched (look for Titian )...the concept of the impressionists is right, no black in light..remember there were searching for light and color and black is the enemy of that..but for an object to be fully threedimentional you have to have light and dark. white(all the 7 colors of the rainbow) and black, we painters use black to represent that absence of light.. remember that most animals see in black and white..we are the privilege ones who can sense color..

[exema]

6hr alla prima. i use blk like a mutha.

[Layil]

exema: nice!

[le_fish]

bengine - Thanks. Not sure about traditional forums. Most of the forums are flooded with digital stuff.
Adam Carnes - Thanks man.

Just some recent studies. Haven't been updating lately...

http://www.jim-yang.com/Temp/Susan_001.jpg

http://www.jim-yang.com/Temp/Susan_002.jpg

[rblitz7]

@exema - Really nice job! did you do a drawing first?

[rblitz7]

oil portrait
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6457/oilportraitix3.jpg

[Quigleyer]

nice!

Burtzum. was that painting of that women done in richmond? she looks rather familiar and i know she does that pose a lot and i'm just curious-- are you maybe an illustration student here?

[Burtzum]

Yep, VCU Illustration student. We had her as our model all semester for all the afterschool meetings.

[AztcFireFlower]

exema beautiful work on the flesh tone. Sigh, I will get it some day.
le_fish I'm enamoured with your work!
Have always watched this thread and all the talent in here. Am here to learn so am posting a few studies. Crits are welcome. These are 3 hr. studies with a cad.red, yellow ochre, white, black palette. The last portrait is older and had the addition of ultramarine blue and alizaren crimson.

[Norwood]

beautiful work, all!

aztcfire> BEAUTIFUL work. really like the colors and all
le_fish> your work is amazing!

one is 3 hours, the other is 6
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2944/figurepaintingsux8.jpg

[exema]

here is a skull i painted from life then i floated it in a red backgound on a heart panel panel i made. the pics arent that great i was having trouble photographing it because the surface of the panel is convex.

[the_allejo05]

AztcFireFlower excellent studies...but something which i have noticed from your work..hmm I think you are still thinking of concepts too much while you paint..or draw..you see..to critique you on your paintings..your thinking of matching tones and shapes and angles and geometries..constructions..but your are forgetting your painting an eye which is moist,a nose used to smell, a bumby fleshy mouth to eat, a hair so soft that feels like silk and a flesh so tender under bones that we humans are so weak for :)..try to be more sensible to outlines..feel them....because i see too many straight lines ON those heads/figures..look at the masters not a single straight line, look at the human figure not a single one...one advice i heard from a good painter..You are what you paint.. if you paint hair become a hair..if you paint clouds become a cloud ,if you paint shadow become one..I now that in order to get to the level of feeling your concepts should be done thoughlessly (im talking about construction,perspective,anatomy,etc and the eye/hand coordination excellent ) but is nice to once in a while feel the subject, feel the weight of the mass..your not painting or drawing your are creating ...

[dbclemons]

I haven't uploaded anything here in a long time, so thought I'd submit this new one. (Some very nice works here, BTW.) This is acrylic on canvas 9x12". I haven't used acrylics in years, so I wanted to dust them off and remind myself how they work. ;) It's from a collection of old photos of mine.

[Sharon Knettell]

Jrr-Beautifully and sensitively done. You really seem to get both color and form which is rare.

Actually I see a lot of really competent life studies here.

[jpli]

a life painting i'm finishing up. Started this at the insomnia workshop a few weeks ago.

jp

[Jas0n 0n a Bike]

Practice still life to get me back into the mood. Haven't done one for over two years.

http://www.socalbmx.com/images/art/practice%20still%20life.jpg

[the_allejo05]

this was a painting sketch of a head of a friend..then after a few months i decided to rework it since someone wanted to buy it...(no model at this time)
,still the mouth is out of the axis of the head ,but is good...that this big error reminds me of always checking the drawing. the colors are a bit off because of the picture
http://images.artwanted.com/large/87/18782_445487.jpg

[the_allejo05]

another sketch in pastels..10m.. too quick for my taste, too many errors..I used red conte,colored chalks(for blackboard) and pastelsis hard to tell the position of the hand..but oh well...colos a bit off and the images is much sharper..cant photograph..http://images.artwanted.com/large/84/18782_457884.jpg

[the_allejo05]

http://pics-94.hi5.com/userpics/394/308/308554394.img.jpg
a bit lifeless since i was more concerned with construction that always happens but i had fun from life obviously..bout 30min

[Rocky]

http://studentpages.scad.edu/~weihsu20/salmontilapia2.jpg

New painting of fish flesh tones. www.chrishsu.net (http://www.chrishsu.net)

[Anuran]

I did all of these from life as part of my first painting class. I loved that class. It was my first experience painting with oils. Also this thread rocks, so many inspiring pics...
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/Anuran76/PC130020.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/Anuran76/PC130001.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/Anuran76/PC130004.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/Anuran76/PC130010.jpg
and a self portrait i used a mirror not a photo
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/Anuran76/PC130006.jpg

[hsn]

Great thread

[Josef Sy]

http://www.josefsy.com/graphics/New_works/drawings/177-7735_IMG.JPG
Did a study of self portrait using a limited palette. (white, black, yellow ochre and vermillion)

[Solon]

Hi,

Here are paintings I did from life in watercolor. Mostly my wife or me and one from life class. Some self portraits are in mirrors some with help of camera (the one I am working).

Thanks for looking

http://www.contourline.net/resources/310.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/311.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/313.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/314.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/320.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/321.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/325.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/328.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/330.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/331.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/332.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/334.jpg

http://www.contourline.net/resources/337.jpg

[bengine]

Solon, amazing!

[Solon]

::Bengine:: thank you!

2 rain coats on a chair, watercolor on Arches cp, quarter sheet.

http://www.contourline.net/resources/341.jpg

[ivow]

Solon - Great work.

How do you guys feel about painting from secondary sources, like photographs?

Im constantly told how important life drawing and painting is, but rarely have any opportunity to draw in a well lit and interesting environment. Do you guys think its acceptable?

[nilaffle]

Hello!

My first (and only) painting from life. After seeing this thread I'm thinking I should try it out more....

Gouache on bristol.

[marc_taro]

my first few oils...clicky for biggie

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/418167463_d78bba031c_m.jpg (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/418167463_c4d4e9fce3_o.jpg) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/60/410829934_c2c3ba6e49_m.jpg (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/60/410829934_b2a8e843d8_o.jpg) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/410829629_f5e0409279_m.jpg (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/410829629_2adc93f6c1_o.jpg)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/418167023_2c3f3472c3_m.jpg (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/418167023_a31bdf3f4c_o.jpg)

[stephen]

Chillin in florence, drawin some dudes, painting some ladies.

few weeks back,

[bengine]

Hi!

Here is 2 quick still lifes, and a twisted selfportrait. Tje whole thing didnt fit the scanner though.

[Mimesis]

A life study in acrylic for a design course, studying monochromatic scale, as well as colour.

[Main Loop]

Stephen - beautiful! would love to see a better quality pic of that one.. doesnt look like the jpeg compression is doing it much justice

Today I went to a life drawing workshop, it was the first time I ever used my tablet pc for a single 3-hr pose session.. I used a variety of programs to get to the point of where it looks pretty dang close to one of my oil paintings in the same amount of time..

http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/186.jpg

[jasonj05]

http://jasonjart.com/Post/DSC_5773.jpg

http://jasonjart.com/Post/DSC_6431.jpg

http://jasonjart.com/Post/DSC_6432.jpg

The first one is 11X14 inchs, about 3~4 hours
The second one is 16X20 inchs, about 4 hours
The third one is 24X36 inchs, about 20 hours.

Jason Juan
http://jasonjart.com

[Main Loop]

jasonj05 - looking very good, especially the one in the middle..... too hard of edges on her facial features in the last one

done from life on my tablet:
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/199.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/201.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/207.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/208.jpg

[frankthebunny]

http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/7641/stilllife2nm5.jpg
still life
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/3741/portrait2rm5.jpg
portrait1
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/5615/portrait1kq9.jpg
portrait2

[linranae]

Watercolor from life
http://linranae.com/images/otherwork/orangeandblue.jpg

Oils from life
http://linranae.com/images/otherwork/headphones1.jpg

[jasonj05]

Thanks!
I felt he last painting was not ideal, too and I guess it because I made several things up by myself.


I always enjoy your drawings and paintings.
I am always thinking about doing digital painting from life but the first thing is the color temperature peoblem. Since the LCD and the setting has distinct light sourse, LCD is self-luminescence, and the color temperature is very high. The light source for model is usually tungsten light. The tungsten light's color temperature is very low. I believe it is a big challenge with tablet PC.




jasonj05 - looking very good, especially the one in the middle..... too hard of edges on her facial features in the last one

done from life on my tablet:
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/199.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/201.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/207.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/208.jpg

[Blue Severin]

dang some great work in here again. Glad this thread isn't dead. Here's some recent ones that I'm pretty happy with.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a144/jbrassell/adamtoga1.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a144/jbrassell/steph1.jpg

and one from the San Fran workshop
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a144/jbrassell/greenhair.jpg

[timpaatkins]

Great job everyone! I thought Id start to contributre to this thread too.

New to Oils, these are my third fourth and fith attempt at them. Im very timid when it comes to applying the paint, but im working on it!

First a few Wips, 30x40, and these are LONG poses, Ive probably been working the middle one for 20-30 hours...

The top one for about 6.

129858

129859

Our model dint show up, so I decided to try my hand at a quick one. (Get your mind out of the gutter, you perverts!)

129852

I had some trouble gettin a nice rich blue in the cloth. I spent about an hour and a half - 2 hrs on it.

[Main Loop]

http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/25/230.jpg

[stephen]

thanks mainloop, I dont really think its a bad jpg, its just how its painted, It looks completely fine when your about 5feet away, but up close you can see all the harsh edges and crap.

so on this one i tried to rectify that alittle and my brushwork was pretty sporatic and chaotic. but worked out okay I think, maybe next time i'll try to merge both of the styles and that might work out good..

[Uziel]

Acrylics on gessoed cardboard.
around 7x9.4 inches

[timpaatkins]

139535

Recent illo for a class, acrylic (bloody stuff) on 22 by 28

[panchosimpson]

great job everybody, worka round here looks awesome! havent seen too many still lifes around lately though....here are my humble contributions to the cause

[timpaatkins]

30x40

Not finished yet, but alas, the model has gone. I may finish it from my head. Why the hell not?

143777

[dazzleanddestroy]

I'm new here.

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w292/dazzleanddestroyart/mary/l_7fd9fd41c4fa0ec95f4f4ccb74404044.jpg
finished



http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w292/dazzleanddestroyart/0429071943.jpg
not finished..

[Alvaradolol]

First post here :)

http://alvaradolol.com/Images/bill.jpg

[Richard Rigney]

Hello this is a figure painting I birthed.
I took a photo(with a manual camera) and painted this in grid scale.. or black and white scale... i tried.. I a bit timid about going to color.. my good friend knows how to paint to paint in color with figures.. I have been making more pop art these days...much like Ross Bleckner.. so I've been told.
I would like to go back to painting a portrait...not of myself ..possibly painting myself would be narrassitic ..? yes? no? I have some photo graphs I'd like to upload also taken of a model...

Also can anyone help me with the avatar thing...the image size will not adjust from pdf format ..into jpg...it stays about 1600 mega bites or so...then i adjust it in photoshop and saveas and it will not make the change. Any idea's?

I hope this uploads i've had no success with my avatar...
comments and critiques welcome.. Rigney

Also could some one help me figure out my "bug" I have my the file of my painting saved at 640 KB...then I proceed to go into photoshop to alter my image size to 411 KB...I believe the file asks for jpegs to be under 500KB..then I don't want to get into all of the bizarre feedback it gave me relating to why my file will not translate.. I have a mac..does this make any sense...I will ask for my friends help soon...he has training in 3-D graphics..ect...I'm just looking to learn from this site... I'm not a pro...like him....

O.k. hope this posts R.R.
O.k. I have posted a photo out of sheer exhaustion...it's a photo...so I apologize it's not in the photo gallery..if anyone will help me I'll post my black and white figure nude..as well can someone help me with avatar?

[panchosimpson]

Hi Richard,

and welcome to the forums.

I took a photo(with a manual camera) and painted this in grid scale

Just to save you some trouble, this particular thread is intended for paintings done from the live model....i.e. not from photographs....however, there are plenty of other places in the forum in which to post images based on photographs. In regards to your questions about posting, try going to photoshop and using the save to web feature on your images, then outputting a jpeg file. Btw, painting a self portrait is not narcissistic.

[Richard Rigney]

This is my attempt at a figure painting somewhat completed. I went to art school and took figure drawing and design and space form material. I then transfered to a college in Illinois. The teacher suggested we pose for each other in class which I think is a bit awkward. I managed to find a model on my own and paint this despite my teachers not finding figure models for us to work from.

I thought I may be accepted here. My friend says concept means something you have not seen before..I suppose that does not matter if it is representational or not.. my latter sketch is abstract. My friends support me even though I would be grouped with "fine" artists and not illustrators...my closest friends at the Institute in Milwaukee where designers in interior architecture and industrial design mainly illustration...

I just encompass a large taste spectrum. Actually i would probably do some more figure painting but I don't have anyone to paint but myself..guess I could try a portrait of myself? I may be able to take a figure drawing class around here a UW...but I really don't want any more female models..which is probably what I'll get.. do know what I look like..all I've had through out college have been female models...why that is I don't know why..it's not split ratio wise. Mainly it's been a money issue finding people to pose...so I went into what could be termed possibly "pop" art..they are only sketches..thumnails for possible paintings...the quality is not as good seeeing they are colored pencil and not oil yet....

If I do go about painting a portrait or self-portrait are there any forums on how to use color to start vs...painting grayscale and then glazing over?

I was critiqued my a yale"ie" masters graduate she suggests I have similar style to Ross/Russ Bleckner...has anyone heard of this artist before?

I hope I get some inspiration and feedback on these pieces...suppose I'll understand if I'm not liked. I am a women and I"m married to someone that does illustration and 3-D graphics..he says he does "enjoy" my work.his he prejudice? I need to know if other people that do things that my husband do still can get some satisfaction out of my "art"

About my name Richard Rigney~ that was my biological fathers name..he was a photographer..it's a tribute and maybe and alias

Thanks for looking _chris

[SprayNation]

Oooo, beautiful Main Loop!

[harryccf]

So good ,Thank you

[inno8sky]

Here's a couple of latest landscapes
both are oil on canvas


http://www.floatingrock.com/forum/artwork/autumnleaves.jpg
Autumn Leaves 12 x 36

http://www.floatingrock.com/forum/artwork/blueflowers.jpg
Blue Flowers 16 x 20

[Seedling]

Stephen, I am in love with your chaotic brushwork and colors!

Some of my daily paintings:

[M.S]

This thread is full of awesome artwork!

[El Oso]

todays daily
160085

[Seedling]

Crayons are happy things!

Construction robots are also happy things.

[El Oso]

160970
this one was a pain in the ass. well actually not this one but the 4 before that I wiped away.

l

[timpaatkins]

Man, this one rocks balls. I frigging love it, they have such a wonderful tangible quality to them, my fave is the avocado. the one thing that takes away from it is that blobby brown thing at the bottom, I kinda wish the blue cloth kept going.


Seedling: Great structure to those trucks, but they seem on a whole a little bit flat. Was it a real overcast and foggy day? Me thinks some high chroma yellow in the right places would really make the pop out!
Keep em coming guys!!
Cheers Tim

[El Oso]

161297
on canvas with nat
natural light. I liked it when I finished it. Now I hate it.
l

[designboot]

le_fish: great paintings! I like definetly your way to the painting and building a structure!

[El Oso]

This one took a while. I was busy with family stuff. but i like the way it came out.
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[incolorinred]

El oso, nice brush strokes. I like the way you handled the fruit. also inno8sky your autumn piece has a really nice combination of warm and cool colors. I like the way they collide along the horizon. good work everyone.

[Seedling]

El Oso, those are beautiful! Alas, I have no new work to post. I'm still getting the new house (and studio!) set up.

[miljenko]

did this for my entry exam to the academy today. Approx 2hrs, acrylics on paper.

[El Oso]

Man, this one was the hardest one yet. Due to everything that was happening around me I managed to grab a 1/2 hour of painting here and there through out the week. At least is done. plus there is the glare, I hate glare.

Seedling, how is the house coming along? A new studio must be very exciting.

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[El Oso]

Alright. Hopefully no more tragedies. Knock on wood. here is todays.168845

[Friedmag]

Sweet stuff Loop and inno!

[El Oso]

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[El Oso]

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this one was fast. I was really happy with my new background. I found the perfect gray.

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[El Oso]

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[stephen]

experimenting ontop of an old painting..

[el coro]

heres a dump of life stuff i been painting. usually around 2-3 hours.

[AmadorL]

Hey big C36 nice to see some of your newer work pimp'n, i wondered when you would come back, hey what about that hennessy bottle dude? hit me up

-Amador

[stephen]

nice stuff coro, they have a bit of scott burdick feel to the application, love that interior! i wanna do some of that now.

[mosh]

Hi evry one

ive just relized this thread it appears to be ausom all you guys have wounderful work

very very nice work

any way
ive begon painting just a while ago with acrilics watter and oils
and though to post some things also

photoshop

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Real-1-2.jpg

Acrylics 1 ( aperantly my camra made it come out very dark tried to fix up the lowsy color on photoshop but didnt really succied

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Real-1-1.jpg

Water color

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Real-1-4.jpg

Acrilics 2

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Real-1-3.jpg

and sorry for the spelling mistakes my english isnt the best :bashful:

[mosh]

hmmm ok just learnt a little sing about taking pictures

do it in real sunlight
cous the flash bounces back a nastey efect
while floresent light gives a wierd sort of Greenish afterfect
and the light bolbs throw in this yellowy tuch

any way heres some pics i tried taking with no flash
even so it is late afternone so they wasnt that mutch light either but never mind

i hope you injoy

acrylics 1

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Girl.jpg

acrylics 2

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Scenary.jpg

Oil

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Fruit.jpg

oil ( small zoom on fruit section )

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Fruit-zoom1.jpg

and charcol ( not sure if this is the place for charcol art but if already posting stuff then figured to may as well add it )

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa186/mo-ja/Cat.jpg

good day
Mosh

[Uziel]

Nice ones coro. Looks a bit like you've used the liquify tool on your ref. with that 2nd SP.
The red lip on samsm seems to get lost in his beard on the left side.
Would love to see that azure color you often used in your digital work in one of your oils.
Can you explain the reason/philosophy why you hide your eyes in shadow?

btw Did you redesign your webpage?

mosh
figures in the 1st acrylic painting don't look as good as the background and the flowers.

2nd one
Happy trees - that's so Bob Ross material hahaha. Check him out on youtube if you don't know him.

with your oils try to bump up color contrast like you do with the acrylics - make it look fresh

[mosh]

Hey Thanks Uzial for the hot tips
sounds like really cool stuff
hope to get better

o and like your sketchbook to
really nice :teeth:

good day
mosh

[kresoja]

I haven't posted in a long ass time. most of theses are at a 3 hour session but there are a couple 6 hour ones.

http://www.kresoja.com/online/neckbrace_rickie.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/straightshot.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/pigeon_03-07.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/pigeonfull.jpghttp://www.kresoja.com/online/angie.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/pigeontest.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/sarah-07-small.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/pigeon-07-01.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/demine-07.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/lying_limited_nude.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/backlight-cathleen.jpg

ok some outdoor action

http://www.kresoja.com/online/heavy_equip_03-07.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/yellow_claw-s.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/train_sketch-01.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/train-02.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/gasworks_06-01.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/vantruck.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/dumpster_gouache-07.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/cloud_study-4-07.jpg
http://www.kresoja.com/online/trees.jpg


last but not least here's a link (http://picasaweb.google.com/kresoja/Gouache_figures) to some of my gouache figure work done at open drawing sessions.

[Sedas]

Oil on canvas

[Bowlin]

Hey el coro.... do you usually block in your shapes, use thin layers then move on to very thick opaque strokes? Plus, do you use a varnish or mix with some medium that makes your paintings so shiny and luscious?

[liuzzi]

http://www.mikeliuzzi.com/recent_work/oil_still_life.jpg


any advice is greatly appreciated, im just starting to mess with oil..mess being the key word here :-)

[Mitchell]

Coro, Billiant peices mate. Once again, going on the ipod of inspiration haha.

kresoja, awesome!

[Xaya]

oil painting - portrait from life (good friend of mine)
3hours with model + 2 hours refinement

[donjusko]

Shucks.. you guys are good.
Water color was my first medium, I still like it a lot.

http://www.realcolorwheel.com/watercolors.htg/selfWC7-2-80darker7x11WP8x10.jpg

djusko@realcolorwheel.com
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm
I added these links because I couldn't get to my profile, that part of the site was "under construction". I just moved and don't know if my profile is up to date. I probably won't get a notification to the next post.

[donjusko]

A couple of years later I was into fresco. You have six hours total to do what you want to do.

http://www.realcolorwheel.com/fresco.htg/frescoportraitDon8x10.jpg

http://www.realcolorwheel.com/frescopaintings.htm

[Brittons]

These are some new pieces. Please give me some honest crits and let me know how you would approach something like this to make it better. Nice work on this forum...

[donjusko]

Hi Brittons,
You have a good handle on two things I noticed.
"it's lightest next to the dark and darkest next to the light," and
"Have at least one blur area in the painting", that's where two objects have the same value and the line between them can be blurred.

When there is some contrast between two objects, as in most cases, I would sharpen the contour line so my eye won't get hung up on unreasonable jagged edges.

[Brittons]

Thanks Don... I checked out your site. That color wheel is blowing my mind! I think my brain has leaked out onto my left shoulder. That's some serious analysis/discipline and was interesting to read through.

Yeah, hard edges are a tough thing to judge and it's interesting to hear a viewers take on it. Thanks for the critique. Personally, I'm sort of at a loss for what to do for the background on some of these. I can paint drapery, and when I made that portrait with the green background, I gave it the mental "thumbs up" and left the background obscure/painterly, but looking at it now, it seems perhaps a bit haphhazard. I think I just need to find more time to paint in natural light and would see areas like this a bit more directly.

[Arpad]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/Okami/orangecopy.jpg

watercolor, about 40 minutes.

[donjusko]

Thanks Brittons,
Color is everything. Mix your darks, instead of using black pigment use the correct complements.
Here are the true complements, according to the Real Color Wheel.
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/complementsneutral.htm

http://www.realcolorwheel.com/watercolors.htg/selfWC1990autocontrastWPcurves8x10.jpg

On your paintings I can see every place you used black pigment as the dark and to darken colors. They stand out, giving colors a pall and turning yellow into green. And don't use the red, yellow and blue color wheel, it's been wrong for a very long time.

I paint a lot of paintings with just the transparent primaries. the three of them together mix a perfect neutral dark.

http://www.realcolorwheel.com/3colors.htg/3colorapple600.jpg

Here's the whole story in a link.
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/3colors.htm

When you use the primaries plus secondaries together, you get to use opposition complements. Like transparent magenta with transparent green, burnt umber (dark yellow) and ult blue, and, cad red with cyan. It's a beautiful thing!

[sorryidunno]

Pics are great... It looks natural.

You can check for more natural paintings here

http://www.paintyourlife.com/galleries/pencil-portraits.asp

[Blue Severin]

Hey sorryidunno, this is the wrong thread to post a link to paintyourlife, but it'd be great if you posted some work.

Coro- way to paint what you see! I love how you treat the eyes, kickass edges.

Donjusko- cool color theory, I'll try it out

Still working on my stuff. Some plein air sketches, a few portraits, studies, all the fun stuff.

[Brittons]

Yipes! I NEVER use black in my darks. It's not even on my pallate! The darks in my paintings are probably gotten through some sort of cad red, phthalo blue, raw umber sort of thing, depending on what I'm seeing I guess. I agree that black is an ugly way to get darks.

[donjusko]

I'm sorry Brittons, I shouldn't jump to conclusions. It's this RGB computer thing, it's so limited in color.
It happens when I'm printing also, CMYK jumps to black too soon. One of my watercolors looks like I might have used black in the hair, but I didn't.

What is the second color you dropped out of your palette? In watercolors it was Naples yellow, because it got darker when it dried.

Here is my last painting, 6:30 in the morning, 8 days in a row, same spot. The sun came up earlier each morning by 5 minutes. A half hour later the colors and shadows were completely different.

http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacarandaholy2007.htg/Day8jacaholyghost2007fin800x543.jpg

Here is the day by day.
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/jacarandaholy2007.htm

[Blue Severin]

2 hour alla prima

[koppa]

hiya heres a detail of something im workin on
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[ZeD]

Yey guys ... here goes mine ... 2 hour aprox....
http://www.zed.art.br/gallery/PRG - boris.jpg

www.zed.art.br (http://www.zed.art.br)

[emi middleton]

I'm a beginner and looking to improve my painting skills through life painting, wondering can anyone answer some of these questions?...

Firstly, where do you go to paint from life?
do you start with a set pallete of colours? should i limit myself to using a set amount of colours? should i immediatly block in my darks and lights and work from there, or gradually build form from a general tone? I'm inspired by everyones artwork! you guys are amazing! thankyou!

[incolorinred]

emi_middleton, you have asked many good questions. let me answer them one by one.

-painting (or drawing) from life can be from any model, object, or space in the world. "From life" implies that you have created a work from the act of observation. If you are new to painting then I recommend starting with a simple still life. It will give you a chance to get experience before dealing with harder projects like landscapes, figures, or interior spaces.

-when I started painting, my teacher started me out with a basic palette known as a "dead" palette. It consists of just three colors: flesh ochre, yellow ochre, and blue black (other combinations can work too) . With these three primaries, you will be able to reproduce a wide variety of colors and it will give you a sturdy building block before expanding your palette further. Of course, you will also need a white. I prefer flake white to the other whites, but it is really preference.

-Yes, you generally do want to paint the whole form rather than the exterior lines like one would start to do in pencil drawing. I suggest doing an underpainting first. To do this, mix a neutral tone and cover the entire canvas with it. Then use a paper towel to rub paint off the areas of your composition where the lights are. Re-apply paint to dark areas as needed and go back and forth between painting and taking away. With this technique you'll be able to create a monochromatic painting which will serve as a blueprint, so to speak, of your composition. I think you'll find underpainting the most fun part of the project, because after that is when the mistakes start to happen!

[phantomfrog]

another beginner's question.......

i am interested in trying out acrylics....will the same set of procedures like underpainting work even with acrylics?

One more doubt i have is, if i have to try out monochromatic paintings first, any particular colour that i should choose for painting?

[gunnarsson]

great great stuff inhere, this thread truly rules.
two a little rushed contributions from school:

value study
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u256/pettergunnarsson/modelljosefin-2071.jpg

color study
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u256/pettergunnarsson/modelljosefins-2070.jpg

[Flake]

i am interested in trying out acrylics....will the same set of procedures like underpainting work even with acrylics?
Yeah, pretty much.

One more doubt i have is, if i have to try out monochromatic paintings first, any particular colour that i should choose for painting?
If we're talking oils, I'd use one of the umbers, simply because they dry relatively quickly and they're cheap.

[timmyhol]

This is a great thread!!

Here is some stuff I've been doing recently. Portrait sittings vary, usually a few three hour sittings, the lay-in is just one session.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/Jess-Final.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/Imp1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/Aaron.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/Luke-Charcoal.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/onions-and-garlic.jpg

[deepbluehue]

timmyhol, I like your still-life of garlic and onions. It's very dramatic. Was it painted alla prima or through glazes?

[timmyhol]

Hi deepbluehue,
It was painted alla prima in two sessions. The first was just to lay in the forms and also to see what would happen as I had left this particular canvas un-primed and haven't painted on un-primed before. In the second session I worked with a lot more paint on the brush, I use lead white quite alot as it doesn't kill the colour in the same way titanium can so you can really load it up in the lights. I sometimes use glazes, but mainly in the backgrounds.

[phantomfrog]

hi guys

I am beginner at painting...been making start stop attempts... :)
anyways..i tried out acrylcs for the first time. i need your crits to help me improve.
thanks

[warhole2]

greeeeaaat stuff!

[donjusko]

Hi phantomfrog,

Here's a tip I use when drawing a symmetrical shape, use a folded in half piece of paper and draw half the shape on it. Open it up and transfer the image.

[Main Loop]

don - nice tip..

Some landscape paintings..

[Blue Severin]

Impasto badassedness sergio, great stuff.

[Farvus]

I hesitated whether I could post here my watercolor pencil studies or not beacause it's something between drawing and painting. Still, there is mixing colors but very limited. Anyway, here are some studies. I love this medium beacause it's super portable. Just 5-6 pencils + letraset brushpen filled with water :).

Using black in the first thumbnail was a mistake.
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Measuring tape and box with gouache paints on red folder.
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[Blue Severin]

Farvus- nice car sketch

timmyhol- I dig the onions.

[culfinglin]

Awesome thread that I just landed on; it's weird to see my teacher's work in it (ron (http://www.studio2ndstreet.com), a.k.a. fredflickstone), and a little unnerving, too. but i'll forge on and post some of my own work, done in his classes. ;)

http://www.pantagruel.net/art/woman.jpg
spring 2006

http://www.pantagruel.net/art/colortheory_black_small.jpg
spring 2007

http://www.pantagruel.net/art/cowboy_small.jpg
spring 2007

more to come, as soon as i get on top of the scanning backlog. feedback definitely welcome. :)

[Main Loop]

Here's some more

[Idiot Apathy]

Duuuude sergio, ace paints man!

[Main Loop]

just wished they would scan better, thanks

[Alvaradolol]

Some still lives

http://alvaradolol.com/Images/bustpainting.jpg

http://alvaradolol.com/Images/painting.jpg

http://alvaradolol.com/Images/painting2.jpg

[MidgardSerpent]

just wished they would scan better, thanks
You use a scanner? Big scanner or small paintings? The landscape is wonderful,
although both paintings are a bit hard to view at once at their current size.






Two still-lives, bit lopsided.

[panchosimpson]

quack! latest still life

[Cory Hinman]

Good one, pancho, especially lovin' the passages in the ducky's bowl, the eggs' reflection, and the textures of the big cast shadow on the right, very Brandywine.

[john.red]

Wow this is such a great thread!

Midgard Serpent, are those Acrylic? I only ask because they appear to be on unprepared cardboard? :)

[MidgardSerpent]

Wow this is such a great thread!

Midgard Serpent, are those Acrylic? I only ask because they appear to be on unprepared cardboard? :)
Yes, acrylics they are, of the student quality variety.

Talk like Yoda, I am.

[deepbluehue]

MidgardSerpent, I like your paintings on the cardboard. I would suggest to you that you invest more in your materials. An art store should carry some better quality cardboard. The rigid cardboard on the back of drawing pads is nice as well. I say this because I think the creases in your board are taking away from your paintings.

[Jens]

awesome work everyone!!

Two 30 minute acrylic sketches, on found carboard box.. cardboard

http://jens.gorillaartfare.com/modelacryl1.jpg
http://jens.gorillaartfare.com/modelacryl2.jpg

[MidgardSerpent]

MidgardSerpent, I like your paintings on the cardboard. I would suggest to you that you invest more in your materials. An art store should carry some better quality cardboard. The rigid cardboard on the back of drawing pads is nice as well. I say this because I think the creases in your board are taking away from your paintings.
You raise a fair point about the quality of materials. As a matter of fact I recently asked around for some information on acrylics paints. Since I started painting I've been working with student quality paints, but this week I ordered six 500ml bottles of professional quality acrylics. The prices are very, very hefty though. Trust me, I'll be using proper boards for those paints. :)


Regarding the crappy cardboards, my mindset at the time was making a series of speedpaints. Mileage, personal compulsion, and study as prioritities, materials coming second place, so I didn't feel the crappy cardboards were really detrimental to my short term goals. Although my original goal of
doing a bunch of speedpaints didn't really pan out for various reasons, one of them being that I'm very slow.

[Barber]

awsome work jens,are you using a really thin brush to lay in the figure,or are these pretty big pieces of cardboard? those lines are very fluid.mmmmmm :asslick:

great sculptural achievment there with the paint too.

[kidoboy]

Hey everyone! Just wanted to say I'm really digging this thread alot, and I've learned so much just reading the past entries and viewing the awsome painting thats going on here. I'm dumping a couple of mine here! Thanx for all the great tips. These two are Oil on Canvas.

[phantomfrog]

Hi phantomfrog,

Here's a tip I use when drawing a symmetrical shape, use a folded in half piece of paper and draw half the shape on it. Open it up and transfer the image.

Hey thanks for the tip....i'll try that one out...
actually i've out of the loop for quite some time now.....thanks again

[panchosimpson]

Plein airs and my friend Matt

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/palms.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/tree1.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/matt-low.jpg

[deepbluehue]

Panchosimpson, that's a really nice portrait.

[marco_max_254]

Hello :rendered:
This is my first life painting ever, thats the view of my living room window here in Brazil. I would be glad if someone could make some critique.

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3316/plainair1zb4.jpg

[panchosimpson]

hey marco, nice painting! If you're looking for suggestions, don't focus so much on detail next time and go for the overall shape of things, simplify what you see and strive for correct value and color. Right now it's hard to tell where the light is coming from, as the values do not clearly indicate this. Also, it looks like you were painting during a sunny day, which means there would be a lot more contrast, and your lights would tend to be yellow-ish, while the darks would be blue/purple-ish. Keep it up!

Here's some plein airs and a still life

[phantomfrog]

I wasnt sure if i could post these here but decided to find out the hard way. the first one is a sketch using watercolors when out for my second love...Ornithology....

the second one is a caricature of a friend of mine rendered in Pastels

[FlameDragon]

paint like bear... you like yes?
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/23/120.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/23/121.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/23/122.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/23/123.jpg
http://www.remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/23/124.jpg

Outstanding!

[MidgardSerpent]

I agree with FlameDragon, that's some very impressive work, especially the second one. Great sense of form and value.
I think the red under the chin is a bit too obviously red, though.





Here's my most recent selfportrait.

[Main Loop]

new paintings

[Serpian]

This one isn't actually from life, it's from a photo projected on a wall. But I'm pretty proud of it nevertheless
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/real_Serpian/0218-life.jpg

And a self portrait from the mirror. I'm still gonna fix a couple of things on it..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/real_Serpian/0218-sp.jpg

[Mr-Joe]

Hi everyone, Great paintings in this thread, Mainloop I like a lot of your life paintings.

Last weekend was the first time I went outdoors to paint, This is my first painting from life:

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Edit: some more information:
Its Oil on canvas its about 12x9, its on a 12x18 canvas but I started working from the bird house and I only covered about half the canvas.
The canvas was pre primed on a roll, I stretched it and I didn't add another layer of primer, I started painting then wiped it all off with some turpentine to get a yellowish tone on the canvas (I didn't do this on purpose it just happed to work out that way) The pallet consisted of ;
Cadmium Lemon
Cadmium Yellow Deep
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red
Alizarin crimson
Transparent Red Oxide
Viridian
Terra Verte
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue Deep
Titanium White
I still don't know how to mix my paints I started doing color charts but I only did 2 of them, This painting was a spur of the moment thing where I just figured I'd wing it... and I just blended colors together on the pallet until I got something that was close enough to what I thought I was seeing...
It was some very crazy weather... at first it was sunny then after about an hour all of a sudden it turned to stormy weather and a blizzard came out of no where for about 20 minutes.. then It lightened up again... Then all of a sudden the blizzard came back.. and we decided to leave because it was way too cold outside.. It was very tough to paint because the light kept changing.

[randolf]

Here's one I did from life last year. It is called "Figure in Turban". It is 30" x 40". Oil on canvas.

Thomasin

website (http://www.thomasindewhurst.com)

[Main Loop]

god my paintings are red, what the hell is wrong with me?

[Maxine Schacker]

it would be great if each of you could include something about your process. What colors did you use? What medium, if any, did you mix with your paint? How did you prepare the surface? If it was tones, what color did you tone it with.

[FlameDragon]

great job everybody, worka round here looks awesome! havent seen too many still lifes around lately though....here are my humble contributions to the cause

Stellar works!!

[marco_max_254]

Hello again. In this summer i went to Santa Catarina and paint like 5 canvas, here are 3 of them. They are all in plein air.

http://images.orkut.com/orkut/albums2/ATgAAACnAs6A931sy9skQZpP-3DJ2pjw0a0cv9TGw2lR90fZMxDDCYeaMRvhVaIqHj2kn3w_kBk r3Q9zK3facYg3BQ9fAJtU9VAT5UNZEfcMEAPkHOvuUoIlahimp Q.jpg

http://images.orkut.com/orkut/albums2/ATgAAAB-3_cgKXdP5g8DuGL_XdJha9gjp21eaBilEB6Y6NXrkdm3SS0bAk 7RCIsAXPrvO5DoDDGmlnFsdHvD5oy_AqgFAJtU9VCeKWAg9HWF 7fNSFdcUsL0OCdMzMA.jpg

http://images.orkut.com/orkut/albums2/ATgAAABGZp-m55WWu_2przHAsyshfmKT6pvZ_M6B78BncJHgI3_xck3wDoZ3-1OrnILL5fQ1n7sQYhSUXu1vRVmjuHNBAJtU9VBP3vpmRRRx5b7 fGNBu70ZGlxDulg.jpg

[panchosimpson]

Flamedragon: thanks man, although I'm not a fan of the first still life I posted that time :)

Marco: your work got much better, nicely done! I especially like the first one. Since these seem to be painted when the sun is out, you need to increase the contrast between the lights and the darks, plus all your highlights should have a yellow-ish tint due to the sun, while the shadows will have a bluish/purplish influence...also, looks less at detail and paint with bigger brushes, focusing on the major masses/values.

Here's a portrait of my friend Kristina

[marco_max_254]

Hello Panchosimpson, thanks a lot for the wise advice. Your friends portrait is relly nice, the skin color looks very realistic, and the shading and lightning seems just right.

[Catofglass]

dude you have no idea how excited i was to find this gem of a thread tucked in all these forums. this and the figure thread. *drool* so here's my two cents, both recent from my comp and painting class. bad photos, i apologize, fixed what i could in PS. any and all crits please!

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[deepbluehue]

randolf, I love the expression you captured!

[deepbluehue]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg108/deepbluehue/The_Violinist_large.jpg

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg108/deepbluehue/unconcious_nude_awakening.jpg

[panchosimpson]

Catofglass, deepbluehue: nice work! Both of your edges are looking almost uniformly hard though, you might want to soften a lot of them up.

Plein air for the day....really bad picture, hopefully i'll post another soon:)

EDIT: uploaded better, more accurate picture

[Catofglass]

deepbluehue- love the second painting, great feeling of flesh on her legs, conveyed through simple color. love it. panchosimpson, thanks for the crit!

[deepbluehue]

Catofglass, thank you for your comments. I like how you handled the hair of the woman in the first painting and her facial expression.

Panchosimpson, thank you for the criticism, I can see what you are talking about with regards to my edges. I love the color play in your painting.

[Jamesy]

This thread is pretty sweet and helpful since I just started painting this term. Now that the quarter is almost over, I think I'll post my 2 favorites from the class. I'll be taking intro to painting again next quarter, so hopefully I can post more and get more feedback on what I should be working on. Both pieces are 2-3 hours-ish since I'm super slow with mixing colors.

[timmyhol]

Great thread, I love seeing the life painting. I started my second life painting today. It's very different from portrait painting, I really enjoyed trying to figure out all the colours. Here's the start, I'll sort the head out on the next session and really start working into the anatomy a bit more. I've also posted a image showing the three stages in a portrait I finished recently. It was over three 3 hour sittings.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/Male-Nude-painted.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/Stuart-stages.jpg

.....actually he's a couple of things to do on the next sitting!! I need to sort out the proportion! A friend just pointed out how short the legs look, its amazing how you can stare at your own work and sometimes not see the mistakes! Not stepping back enough from the easel!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/timmyhol/Male-Nude-corrected.jpg

[exema]

this is from a six hour saturday workshop in Tempe, AZ
@
New School for the Arts
1216 Apache Blvd
Tempe AZ
11am-6pm
every saturday
$15

mattdickson.blogspot.com
mattdickson.net

[deepbluehue]

I wish I had a workshop like that around where I live, it sounds great. Nice study.

[stephen]

exema, nice !

here's an unfinished, couple hours worth done as a demo for my class.

[Catofglass]

comp & painting. fond of the composition, the technique threw me off a little - the first sitting we were supposed to use the paint "like watercolor" so lots of medium but no white. the goal was to get the brightest hues possible. the second sitting we could paint opaquely with white.. it could use more work, methinks, but a good exercise.
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[panchosimpson]

stephen: the structure reads really well, although the color is not as nice as in other portraits that you've posted.

catofglass: Nice , although I would say that most of the colors are too saturated, and the edges are too hard. However, I really like the composition, keep at it!

Here's a skull from life, I tried to focus on value, drawing and edges rather than color, so it was done in burnt umber, white and black. sorry for the glare, I'll post another pic if I can.

[darkwolfb87]

Here is a 20x24" 3-hour portrait study from last week:

[Main Loop]

Some more oil paintings

[Alvaradolol]

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2773/kcag2.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/337/img6016ay0.jpg

[exema]

A couple from the Loft Studio in Tempe,AZ and skull.
more info:
mattdickson.blogspot.net

[Destinatus]

Those are great Main Loop, I especially like the figures. Only crit is that the neck on the 2nd one (lady's back) is too thin.

Just started learning oils. It's quite challenging, but fun! I plan to make some time for still life and plein air paintings too.

http://cyber-sky.org/traditional/images/IMG_0386.JPG
http://cyber-sky.org/traditional/images/max.jpg
http://cyber-sky.org/traditional/images/jane.jpg

[Maxine Schacker]

This is wonderful to see! You are all really painting- not just "coloring." I think you could help each other more if you'd list the colors you used, how you prepared the canvas, and what medium you mixed with the paint.

[Alvaradolol]

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3281/opaintingfi2.jpg

[mentler]

Mini-Me
6" x 6"
Thumbnail
Self-Portrait

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/bob042208c.jpg[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER][/B]

[Main Loop]

New paintings

[Uziel]

Mini-Me
6" x 6"
Thumbnail
Self-Portrait


S..ss.Santa? J/K
Nice portrait Mentler.
Looks a bit serious/angry though -I blame the glasses.

[tmbritton]

Here's a couple that I've done this week. I just set-up a little oil painting corner in a spare room and these are my first paintings in five years. It's definitely this site that influenced me to get started again. I got the idea of painting the paint tube from Coro's posts earlier in the thread. It's nice to do art away from the computer. It feels more real. I hope my beginnerish attempts don't sully this thread too much.

[Schubert dip]

Very nice brushwork! Elcoro is one of my favorites on this website.I too am getting back into painting.

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[panchosimpson]

new portrait!

Mainloop nice job with that last head! the body looks too small though. You might also want to really punch up the contrast in your plein air work to get that nice sunny feeling, also, the figure would be stronger if there were some cools mixed in too, especially considering that blue couch she's reclining on.

Exema: phenomenal values on that skull! Are you applying a thin, grayed out color to the shadow area over a light yellowish ground? I've been trying to do that too, you notice it a lot in 19th century artists, but also in Rockwell, Rembrandt, etc....I just saw it in a bunch of paintings at the LA county museum of art, makes things look very convincing:) I would recommend making the different planes of the cheek (as it transitions into the zygomatic arch) more apparent, and also re-studying the outline on the left side, the transition from the cheek to the muzzle of the face creates a bigger dent in the outline from that angle....awesome transition from the brow to the eye sockets though!

[Mr-Joe]

Painted on Nintendo DS:

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[los]

Man this thread is like crack... i find my self coming back to it 3-4 times a day. read like half of it yesterday, great contributions of art and critiques, very helpful to a beginner like my self. This is my second attempt. I should have started on a fresh surface, I tryed to paint over some crap, it shows http://polyism.com/oil/ab1.JPG

[phantomfrog]

Hi

A study.... First a pencil sketch to get the values right and then a watercolor painting


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My Sketchbook (http://http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=125113)

[phantomfrog]

A photoshop rendering of my friend

[phantomfrog]

A photoshop rendering of my friend


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My Sketchbook (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=125113)

[tmbritton]

Wow, there's a lot of good stuff going on here. Without digging back through time, just on this page I see really good stuff from panchosimpson and main loop. Just for example.

Here's a few more that I've done recently:

A self portrait, yes I am really this red:
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A digital camera:
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A chrome utility knife
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If anybody has any critiques I'd love to hear. I find it hard to be precise with paint. Therefore I tend to lose my drawing. This is one criticism I'd say against myself. I also need to set up some light sources so that I have better lighting, at least for portraits.

[Blue Severin]

Loop, that last black man's portrait is very awesome.

Mentler, 6x6 portrait ftw, nice colors man.

Some four color portraits that turned out all right.

[Main Loop]

More landscape painting practice

[deepbluehue]

Main Loop, your landscapes are very good. I especially like the last three.

[panchosimpson]

2 session plein air I sold about a month ago

[panchosimpson]

new still life!

edit: added closeup

[los]

man nice work there.. how many hrs you put into it?

[panchosimpson]

it's hard to say, I worked on it for about 4 days, only when I really felt like it, that is, I stopped whenever I could feel myself getting lazy or tired. I think I worked like 4 hours on two days, 2 hours on other days....so maybe like 12 hours but very scattered and with a lot of breaks. The pot was painted really quickly, so was most of the main stuff, I just got bogged down tidying things up.

[Schubert dip]

New member, A couple of new still lifes. Hex nuts 5x7 1 hour, Tea pot & vase 11x14 2 hours.

Ramon, very nice work!

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[dariocoelho]

hey folks, been a long time since i posted any work here, so i just throw in recently done studies. all about 2-3 hours, oils on board.

http://www.dariocoelho.com/gallery/studies/tibet.jpg

http://www.dariocoelho.com/gallery/studies/nuetzel5.jpg

http://www.dariocoelho.com/gallery/studies/nuetzel4.jpg

http://www.dariocoelho.com/gallery/studies/nuetzel1.jpg

http://www.dariocoelho.com/gallery/studies/nuetzel2.jpg

[Main Loop]

Memorial Day Paints

[panchosimpson]

Loop: nice, I particularly like the clouds in the last one. I would say darken your darks when working outdoors though, most of your pleirs need a lot more contrast

Here's one for the day, and a still life in progress ..about 20% there (sorry for the really bad pic, will post new one when I'm done with it)

[dariocoelho]

two plenair paintings, 24x30 cm on board, about 3 hours each.

http://www.dariocoelho.com/gallery/studies/schoenbrunn1.jpg

http://www.dariocoelho.com/gallery/studies/schoenbrunn2.jpg

[panchosimpson]

can't let this thread die off :) here's two for contrast, a painting I developed over several days and one I did in about an hour and a half (i think)...one focused on form and content, the other on color, guess which is which!

[t11]

Joining the fray ;)

Couple pieces I did in one of the few places on Long Island that's not a golf course :tihi:

New at the whole plein aire thing so all comments welcome ;)

[jrstebbins]

Great Stuff, this thread MUST NOT DIE!

[Main Loop]

A 12 year old said I suck.

[Elwell]

A 12 year old said I suck.
Awesome! Did you hit him?

[Main Loop]

I thanked him for his opinion

[JimJim]

Done yesterday from life (its a self portrait).
I have wednesdays off school and i managed to get up and do some painting so i was actually more pleased with that than how the painting came out.
took about 3 hours on a canvas in oils.

i was pleased because i just went straight in with the paint and didnt draw or measure anything out before hand.

let me know what you think :)

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some really great work in this thread.

peace

[panchosimpson]

hey Jim, nice work, things seem to be aligning pretty well. Avoid the concave lines you have around your neck, look up how the trapezius wraps around the neck. Also, I think you're overmodeling the area under your nose, and below your eyelid (on the lit side). Also, push for greater contrast of light and dark, things look washed out right now.

here's one for today

[Demo]

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd17/Demo_09/100_0753.jpg

[Main Loop]

Some beach painting.. very unseasonal weather, but it was fun to paint...

[pandahund]

You obviously do not suck :D Nice job on those.

[panchosimpson]

recent stuff

[Main Loop]

I feel like it's starting to come together for me now... The color combos, brushes, composition, everything... Feels good

[Mr-Joe]

main loop, http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=430470&stc=1&d=1218038418

this one's very good, your getting much better.

[mette]

Hi!
This is my first post in CA.
I do not know if this is the rigth place to post this, if someone think it belongs in an other thread.Please tell me.
I think it is a bit difficult to find the way in all this....
I do work in oil, pastel,acrylic and I draw(pen and ink, pencil).Nature,animal,people...
can any of you, tell me where diffrent things belong?

Anyway...
I would like to hear what you think of this portrait.
It is oil on sretched canvas.
38x46 cm.

[Main Loop]

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[kiwigarbage]

Wow...gorgeous work from everywhere. Alvaradolol, I love your emotive portraits. They are beautiful.

This thread is so inspiring! Keep it up guys! Hopefully I'll add my own ingredients to the pot soon :)

[Serpian]

Man... We should totally get James Gurney and his plein air studies in this here thread!

[jrstebbins]

Hello all,

This is my first post in this thread. A little background:

I have been focusing so much on my career as a graphic designer that I have not done any painting in years. Largely because of this thread, I have decided to get back into it and it is a struggle. Having not picked up a brush in so long and trying to start again is quite humbling.

I never was very good, but I have made a goal of really trying to get better. I am starting slowly, just to get things going again and I am finding that I really have a long way to go. Here are some examples of some old work, followed by what I have been up to recently. I appreciate all of your comments and continued contributions to this awesome thread!

-j

[jrstebbins]

An abstract landscape from 2002. Oil on canvas.

Also, a painting of my dog-acrylic on canvas from 2006.

These are the only paintings I have done since 2002 until my recent stuff.

[jrstebbins]

Now some small studies I have been working on just to try and get back in the game.

Acrylic on canvas sheet.

[Maxine Schacker]

Ramon, keep an eye on warm/cool changes in your plein air studies. The greens are often going cool/cool/cool. Usually for every color change you'll have a temp change (sometimes there are two cools or two warms in a row, but more than that will start to read as pattern, not form).

By the way, I've finally had a vacation and am working with one of my students to scan all my slides and then take digital photos of more recent work! I'm going to launch a website. I'll let you know when it comes together. The older work will be ready first.

PS The still life you posted here is really first rate!

[Maxine Schacker]

Hi Main loop! Just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying your landscape studies. Thanks for posting them.

[panchosimpson]

Thanks for the comments Maxine :) I'll definitely check my temperatures in future plein air paintings. I look forward to seeing your work online :)

Here's something I did this weekend, a pen and ink study from life, I figured it's close enough to a painting to post.

-Ramon

[JustinBeckett]

Shit, this thread is super inspiring - Main loop, you are inspiring me to get my ass out of the studio and into life, I haven't tackled life painting yet. I would love to try my hand at landscapes from life. I am going on a short weekend vacation this weekend and will be in nature, I think I am going to bring my easel along.

Coro, wicked wicked work!

[Main Loop]

Ehh, not my best, but I'm putting it up for posterity...

Justin, thanks for that. It's fun once you get into it.