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 #2
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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.
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
Pink and White Roses — Done (for now)
I decided the background was too gloomy with that gray blue, so painted over it with Golden’s Neutral Gray 7.
I used the blurred reference photo from the PaintCoach Patreon site, and listened here and there to the video, but ultimately I decided to go with my interpretation of the colors rather than trying to copy color for color the instructor’s work.
Work in Progress Day 2: Pink & White Roses
We had a baseball game to go to in the afternoon (for Independence Day) so I wasn’t able to get more done on this painting. However, I have the base colors in for the roses.
I need to watch the PaintCoach‘s YouTube to understand what he did for the flower stalks, and the finishing touches.
Work in Progress: Pink & White Roses (Patreon Paintcoach)
I’m trying roses now, using a reference photo from PaintCoach’s Patreon site. This is the background done, on a 11×14 canvas.
Negative Spaces Study: Complete
Here is the completed work. The orange I left untouched from the initial wash of color, adding alizarin crimson and yellow for the brighter and darker parts of the leaves.
Negative Spaces Study: Adventures in Acrylic
One more study I’ve done in the Adventures in Acrylic class. I did not do the fluorescent orange spray paint, and this time, instead of using my Perinone Orange (a close substitute), I went with Liquitex’s Cad-Free Orange paint, more soothing to my eyes.
Then I did a free-hand drawing in pencil of some of the orange leaves from the reference photo provided in the class, and did some light shading of the shadow areas as I saw them.
My blue was a mix of Utrecht’s cerulean blue (fluid) and Liquitex’s soft-body Light Blue Permanent (I think it is). I used a long-handled small bright brush to paint in the negative spaces.
This is really an in-progress painting, but I’m tempted to leave it as it is and go on to something else. We’ll see!
Portrait in Blue: from Adventures in Acrylic
This is another work from Marla Baggetta’s Adventures in Acrylic class I’m taking. I have to say I’m NOT a big fan of phthalo blue, at least as a background. Especially a portrait background! That blue just shines through in an aggravating fashion! And, obviously, it affects the look of the other paint colors used. All in all, she looks greener than I had wanted her to be. Until I get portraits down well, I don’t see the purpose of using wacky colors. 🙂
Anyway, painting a portrait — though this was supposed to be “expressive” and “fun” not an absolute likeness — is one thing, drawing is another. I fiddled with the proportional divider I bought for sketching, and the drawing was pretty decent. But once I started painting over my pencil lines, the drawing went out the window. Ugh!
I AM reasonably satisfied with the facial planes and the shadows — for a first attempt.
Oh well. Tomorrow’s another day!
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