Dorsa: Thankyou thankyou thankyou! I will definitely be revisiting the head and shirt later tonight. One thing though is that these are two different models- the one in the painting is my cousin- male with long hair, and the one in the picture is my mom- female with slightly shorter hair and much more tidy.
and thankyew :]
I <3 you punaji. You have no idea how much this is helping.
i love what you did with the light on the wall in the update, not too bright but not too dull either. it's not so much of a focal point as i was expecting, but what you've done with it looks even better.
now you really just have to make that lamp come out, it almost looks as if it's literally painted on the wall. i'd say dorsa hit the nail on the head. the changes are subtle but i'm really liking this piece. you don't know how much more life they bring out of it. i'm guessing you weren't feeling it as much initially but i can tell you're getting more confident with it.
still toasty
gnarf: thanks for the words-very encouraging.
well the models here and I took some photos that ill print out tomorrow for some reference. Hopefully I will just be working on the figure and I'm done. I don't know for sure but I may be scraping most of him down and repainting- possibly moving his head up some and his shoulders down some, and he will be a lot more polished than previous( though still lively painted) oh, and I gotta do something about that picture frame too.
For now, here's the lamp and the painting so far- starting to look weird with some parts drying a bit faster than others.
I personally think I've brought more dimension to the lamp, I scraped it down and put a little more time and thought into it.
I'm digging the new lamp, but I'm not too sure how I feel about the walls right now. I think the contrast in the corner might just be too sharp, and there is a lot of red behind that lamp. I really liked the walls previously, but I guess that's just an aesthetic choice. Good update! And good luck with the figure painting :)
I dont know homes, I like the picture frame. Like you said, I think the figure is the only thing that needs a little work,work on that hair too
I wish the light were as strong in the painting as in the photo..
the perspective is driving me nuts..
and I have no clue what is going on with the figures head
Dorsa: Thankyou. Yeah the very left was an aesthetic choice with the walls but the near the lamp was actually done from observation- although it might not be the right temperature.
Scarfone: I'm talking about the little one, not the one hanging on the wall. You think the little one is fine? Thanks for looking :]
Zach: The effect in the photo is due to a camera not being able to see as much light as I can, I know it makes for that nice dramatic look but I don't think thats where I want to go with this piece. The perspective? I know its kinda shaky, and thats probably an understatement- but does it really make you uncomfortable? I did a preliminary drawing beforehand and while I don't think its 100% accurate I don't find it absolutely deplorable. The entire figure is most likely going to be repainted tonight. Thank you for your comments.
I was gonna mention the smaller picture frame. Looks ill defined in such a well defined environment. or something. I dunno.
Xion: tell me what you think of the new one:
Well I completely repainted him and did some other things. Give me your thoughts- I think I'm done unless there's more that needs fixing, but it has to be at least touch dry by January 15th( its all a little tacky atm)
Sorry for the bad picture- some parts are more glossy and such from medium
Oh man that's rad. Everything is so incredibly much improved - especially the guy. The little blob in the small picture seems a little bit too bright to me but everything else is awesome.
The figure looks 200% better; nicely done. Btw, what's the guy's hair color? It's looking a little green to me. Mm, I'd also like to see the line between the walls a little more neat, but seriously, overall, very good improvement.
the waviness is a little strange to me, did you intentionally curve straight things like the corner of the room? Its not a huge deal, just wonder if your conscious of it.
Xion, Dorsa: Thankyou very much :]
Retro: No. I blame it on me being bad at verticals and because I was painting this super fast, hands weren't too steady.
I applied to parsons new school of design. The " Parsons Challenge" was to create 3 pieces about 3 things that you have previously unnoticed blah blah blah:
First one is oil 6x6
Second is acrylic idunnoxidunno
third is oil 8x8
the third has some awkward anatomy but those strokes (arms) are nice and i love that face
im definitely stealing some stuff you've got going on here ill be staring at these for a bit
Retronym: Thanks. Yeah anatomy is off from working off both a shifting model and a photo with a slightly different angle afterwards, as well as just the artist :p
oh and faces are REALLY hard to do when the painting is like 8x8 D:
I have some stuff. this is my third day doing " a painting a day"
The first is how it looked before I basically wiped almost everything down. I like the abstracted edges I got with this.
bananas .
This painting was fun, on a 2x2 inch canvas. I hope you can tell what it is, it's two heart shaped links to a chain.
oh and this is 5x7, I did it by mounting a copy of a drawing from my moleskine on a panel and painting over it with oils
i love the greenish yellow on the first two. when you step back, there's a completely haunting feel to it. i don't really have any critiques to be honest.
the bananas look great, and the thick globs of paint make it look real painterly, mainly digging the specular lights all over it. makes me wanna eat it, no joke
and i really dig the hearts, very realistic and well done, especially the color of the shadows. when you back up real far it's almost photo-realistic.
as for the girl, did you sketch her originally from reference? at first glance, the anatomy seems fine, but then it almost seems like her chest is forcing itself to turn toward us while her far shoulder is pulling back. her face sorta flattens beneath the nose. the skin tones are great though, nothing too obscure and they keep that fleshy texture just fine.
man, makes me wanna paint. i'm a critic i guess, but i can't paint very well myself. anyway, keep at it amigro
gnarf: Thanks bunches man. As for the girl, I first sketched her from life in my moleskine, took a picture of the drawing, printed out the picture, mounted on panel, then painted on it. Yeah I noticed that too, she was at an odd angle with her body coming towards us, but her arm was down and back to hold a book page open.
anyways
If I could inspire you to paint, that would be great. with your skills you could make some really sick stuff.
For my senior exit product I compared digital and traditional art, and created two paintings of similar composition in the different mediums. I know there are various little anatomy mishaps, mostly in the arms, and the face is a bit wonky, but I believe I did a fairly good job considering I did both of these in the matter of 2 days.
neither of these capture more than a couple drops of her beauty, however.
holy fucking shit man.
Wow, dude, that's just fantastic. I like the traditional painting better, it's more luminous and lively. But shit, they're both fucking great.
Xion: gorgeous models make for gorgeous paintings :]
Faktablad: Thanks man. I like the traditional one more as well, it has less errors in it and is well, exactly what you said haha.
been painting mannequins recently, here's the latest:
hopefully it will turn into a series and I can find some place to show them for me : D
dude i like these alot.. but when the first image didn't load all the way I swear I was looking at a pair of legs, and a naked vagina hahaha
also I think you should do more with the foreground
zachary: haha whenever my cousin would come over he would always make my mannequins finger themselves.
heres another, I wish I didn't have other stuff going on, I really need to zero in on these, im partially satisfied with edges, color, values, and composition but never close to completely satisfied with any of them.
I wanted more range of values and wanted the small mannequin to have harder edges.
man these are so gorgeous, the color choices and everything
Agreed, your ability with paints is phenomenal, I really envy your skills.
The painting of the lamp by the window shade, the second one where you said you wiped it down, is by far my favourite. It has this ethereal look to it, makes it feel like a dream. Although the finished product is just as nice, there's just this level of surrealism to the second one that I just personally prefer stylistically.
Also, how different are using oils compared to acrylic? I want to do a big painting this summer and feel like oils would suit my idea more, but I've only ever used acrylic.
gnarf: thankyou very much :]
quark: actually that one IS the finished product, I wiped down the ugly one and built on the dream ish one.
Oils are COMPLETELY different than acrylic, there really are no similarities what so ever. If you were to do a big painting in acrylic, one brush stroke would be touch dry by the time you loaded your brush with another color. There's things you can do to make oil paints dry relatively fast( touch dry in a day) but the acrylic mediums I've tried have only given me 15 minutes of extra working time max. If you don't care too much about the longevity of your painting, as in you don't care if it lasts 400 years, then you could do an underpainting in acrylic using gesso as the white and then paint in oils on top of that.
haha, zach is right, that head looks like a waist in almost every way, thats awesome. one of my friends makes my mannequins touch themselves whenever hes near them as well.
im not sure how i've missed these for as long as i have, i feel retarded! these are excellent man, your paint handling keeps improving. that first mannequin is lovely, and i think the new one would've surpassed it were the new one more solid.
i really like the gap between our abilities, it seems just right to give me a ton of insight and inspiration all at once; observing your learning is a big help in mine, so thank you for sharing.
Retronym: Thank you very much, to hear someone say my work has helped them is such a compliment I doubt I'm deserving of, but I'll take it!
A self portrait
8x10, Oil on canvas
Detail:
I've got 5 years to be doing this:
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rmbrndt_1620-35/self_portrait_at_29.htm
Palette: Transparent Oxide Red( Rembrandt)
Underpainting White( Winsor and Newton)
Yellow Ochre Light ( Rembrandt)
Lamp Black ( Winsor and Newton)
Viridian ( Rembrandt)
Raw Umber ( Winsor and Newton)
I'm actually, Kinda proud of this.
as well you should be. Face is awesome. The hair seems a bit weaker, though. Like, flatter and lacking in a sense of "hairness". Just doesn't seem to stand up to the rest of the piece, imho.
5 more years you say? Yeah I could definitely see that.
So I watched a movie on picasso the other day. And it's not wrong to say that all of this was done in a kind of fist shake towards him. IMO he chose to be an important artist instead of a good one, and there was henry mattisse so he didn't even really need to be him. The little shit painted gold apparently when he was like 13. The portrait of his father and his self portrait have beautiful brush strokes and show a bravado few artists have.
I have to step this shit up a notch.
First one was an hour and a half, second about an hour, and the last two probably around 70 to 80 minutes.
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