As with my sunflower painting, I decided to update the values on this painting of daffodils, just using Cadmium Orange. The color is exaggerated, yet it makes the flowers stand out. I dry-brushed the orange (no water at all) and used a small brush.
For once, I’m painting from a reference photo of my own! My first attempt was garbage, as you can see below, because my values were completely off relative to the photo on the right. You can barely see that I actually have two shades of yellow for the petals in the painted version.
So, I tried again a few days later, just painting over the old version. And this is the comparison between the old painting and the new. Still not happy with it, but it looks better from a distance, lol!
Just for grins, here’s the comparison between my photo and the new painting.
I actually finished this days ago, and then forgot to post to WordPress, so here is the finished work. (This was from the painting Jed Dorsey calls “Golden Fields & Rustic Barns” from his Jed Dorsey’s YouTube channel called “For the Love of Painting”.
12×12 canvas panel, freehand drawing, and doing my best to copy.
Now I’m going to do a few paintings based on my own photographs — “going solo” as it were. No leaning on online teachers!
Well, I finished it. Am reasonably happy but not crazy about it. I found the pink undertone quite distracting; it really threw me off! And while I didn’t intend to paint over all the pink, it appears I did!
Done on a 10×10 canvas panel as a paint-along effort from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” video class.
I recently came across a selection of videos at Jed Dorsey’s YouTube channel called “For the Love of Painting”, and fell in love with the painting Jed calls “Golden Fields & Rustic Barns“.
I’m working this on a 12×12 canvas, toned in neutral gray with a freehand drawing based off what I saw on the video. (This site is one in which you do NOT have to have a membership.)
This 10×10 painting is one I’m doing as a paint-along effort from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
The focus is on seeing the beauty in a gray, rainy day, of an ordinary (if not ugly, to my mind) marsh near a beach. But Jed points out ways to bring out the natural beauty via the painting — and of course, one way of doing it is using a magenta (PV19) background and letting bits of that tone shine through. We’ll see how it goes.
Last time I said I was undecided about how to finish this daffodil painting from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
I ended up going with my favorite default… cerulean blue mixed with titanium white for a light sky color. (In the photo it doesn’t look all that much different than the version with a still-white canvas panel!)
The reference photo was taken by Jed Dorsey.
I love daffodils, and this 10×10 painting is based off a reference photo from Acrylic University‘s “Bloom with Jed” paint-along video class.
Still need to do the background, and am undecided how to proceed. Jed tones his canvas black, and then does a kind of gray & brown shadow mosaic — bits of black peeking through — so that it almost looks like a stone wall of a background. But that’s not my speed.
The reference photo was taken by Jed Dorsey.
I started this on a 9×12 canvas, and then my cat bit my right wrist — that’s my painting hand. Ten days of antibiotics got the swelling down, and I pretty much have most of my range of motion back, so I was able to finish this.
The painting is based off a reference photo on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site, and I turned up the saturation on the photo to see colors other than black: dark blue, some deep violet, and some silvery gray.
The photo which looks bluer is actually truer to life, but I made the color more red today (Cadmium Red Hue by Golden) and the new photo looks more washed out.
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