This is my first-ever “portrait”. I did not draw out the head using pencil or charcoal or marker; I just drew “roughly” the so-called Loomis head. This was also an exercise in seeing values.
I will be doing more practice on these heads.
Acrylics
Asaro Head 3/4 View.. Work in Progress
Below is an exercise from PaintCoach’s Patreon page in which you paint from a reference photo of an “Asaro Head“. The idea is to get familiar with the planes of the head, while also serving as a value exercise.
I am not yet finished.
Value & Composition Study
I was inspired by landscape painting books I was reading about value studies, and notans, so I painted this 6×6 study. The idea being that the diagonal line of “posts” makes an otherwise horizontal painting more dynamic.
Winter Cabin.. THIS one is the Final
Joke’s on me. I posted the wrong “final” version earlier. This one, with the lights, is the final of “Winter Cabin”. For better or worse. Onward!
Blocks — an Exercise (Paintcoach Patreon)
This reference photo came from another online lesson at PaintCoach’s Patreon site. I’ve also included a work-in-progress photo, and a photo of my final work.
The most glaring mistakes are that I didn’t get the relationships between the blocks right, especially the yellow pyramid, and I don’t have a shadow for the yellow pyramid! (I could add one, but I want to move on.)
Then there is the issue of color. I didn’t want the super-dark background, but the red sphere is too brown, as is the olive-green square. And in the photo the blue cylinder looks more square in the photo of my painting than it does in real life. Sigh.
Will need to do this exercise again sometime.
Winter Cabin… Final Touches
I have completed the Winter Cabin landscape.
Winter Cabin..Work in Progress #2
As I indicated in an earlier post, I’m working on “Winter Cabin” in a follow-along from a PaintCoach post on Patreon.
Winter Cabin.. Work in Progress
I’m working on another lesson from PaintCoach’s Patreon pages. This one is called “Winter Cabin”. I’m using an 8×10 canvas, which I toned with Windsor & Newton Galeria’s Pale Umber. I sketched out the basic shapes with a Liquitex acrylic paint pen in Burnt Umber.
October Sunset
Driving home last night, I was struck by how yellow the sky was, in contrast to the dark trees. So I decided to paint what I remember seeing. (Didn’t bother with taking a photo with my phone, even though I was the passenger.)
BetterLateThanNeverArt 