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!
Winter Cabin.. THIS one is the Final
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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.
Pumpkin Harvest.. Complete!
For better or worse, I’ve finished it!
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.
Update to the Pink & White Roses
I updated the flowers because I felt like they were too washed out. Still need to update the cloth the vase is sitting on — LATER.
The revised painting is on the left; the former version is on the right.
Sunflowers: #PAINTCOACH Patreon
This 9×12 painting of a vase of sunflowers is from one of the PaintCoach Patreon lessons. I’m on a sunflower roll…
For the stems, I used my Liquitex BASICS Green Gray, my new Green Earth, and Phthalo Green (Yellow Shade) with Liquitex Cad-Free Yellow.
For the petals, I used Cad-Free Yellow, Yellow Ochre, and Cad-Free Orange desaturated with Ultramarine Blue.
The vase was done with Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue and Titanium White.
Work-in-Progress: Copying Sargent
One of the posts on the Paint Coach Patreon page is a portrait-painting tutorial using the portrait of Henry James painted by John Singer Sargent in 1913. The tutorial walks beginning painters through the process of painting the big shapes first, and gradually moving towards smaller and smaller shapes (i.e., more detail).
Chris Fornataro (aka Paint Coach) gives the highlights of that process in a recently posted video on YouTube. A copy of Sargent’s work is on the left; a screen shot from the YouTube video is on the right.
I am not yet finished with my own attempt at copying Sargent, but decided to post my work in progress.
“Small Landscape — Big Brush” from Patreon
This 6×8 painting is from a tutorial by Paint Coach on Patreon. The idea is that you use a decently large brush (say, 1/2″) so that you are focused on the basic shapes as opposed to detail.
The 6×8 canvas size felt too small to me for all the different landscape “objects” — trees near and far, a stream, a path, mountains, etc. Whew!
Worse, my photo doesn’t adequately capture the colors I see in my own painting; the path is both grayer and more purple than what is shown, even though I fiddled with tint/saturation/brightness, etc. in the Photos app.
Oh well, time to get painting the next thing.
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