For better or worse, I’ve finished it!
Pumpkin Harvest.. Complete!
Acrylics
Pumpkin Harvest.. Work in Progress #2
After I completed today’s work, I realized that the center pumpkins were all in a line, and I decided I didn’t like that. Bad composition. (See left image.) So I removed one of the pumpkins, and I think it looks a bit more natural.
Pumpkin Harvest.. Work in Progress
It’s finally starting to feel like fall here after a long, hot summer. So, I’m in the mood for fall-themed paintings. This one is from a lesson for patrons of PaintCoach. The idea is to map out the large shapes first, and get the values set before filling in the detail.
I’m doing this on an 8×8 canvas, which I painted with Winsor & Newton Galeria in Pale Umber, drawing out the lines with an acrylic paint pen. (Some of the lines are “wrong”, but I’ll be painting over them anyway.)
Christmas Tree
I did these paintings based on a lesson from PaintCoach on Patreon. The first one I did, I barely looked at the photo, and instead was following along with the video. The scene ended up being excessively abstract (top right). The second effort is marginally better, but I’m still not satisfied.
Sunflower 10: Playing with Yellows
Some time back I had painted this 6×6 canvas panel with cerulean blue, so today I used that for my sunflower. The petals are layered with cadmium-free orange as the base (although it looks like yellow ochre now that it’s painted on the blue). Then I mixed azo yellow with some yellow ochre. Finally, the top layer is cadmium-free yellow. The center is burnt umber light, with some yellow ochre, and then purple and yellow denoting the seeds.
Abstract: “New Mexico”
I haven’t painted (or drawn) for weeks, so today I was just playing with paint without any ideas in my head of what to paint. But after the red oxide paint dried, I rotated the 8×8 canvas, and it suddenly seemed to me like the Sangre de Christo mountains in New Mexico. To that end, I added the chromium green, the yellow “road” and the white dots (lights in houses along the road?)
Sunflower #9 — from Life
I painted one of the sunflowers in my vase — but skipped the vase. And decided to outline it with one of my Arteza Brush Pens. This was done on 6×8 300-lb. watercolor paper.
Red Rose
The painting below — on 6×8 300-lb. watercolor paper — is based on a photo by Shannon Baldwin on Unsplash; my painted rose leans red as opposed to a peachy coral.
Human Figure – Value Study
As I mentioned in this post, I’m taking the online course by Peggi Kroll-Roberts, and the assignment is to do 2-value and then 3-value studies painting the figure. In this effort, I am using the figure I sketched out in charcoal here, as prep for a future painting.
I drew out the figure first, using a 6×8 piece of 300-lb watercolor paper. For comparison’s sake, I’ve included the charcoal figure.
Based on an image by sarahbernier3140 from Pixabay
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