Artist Copy

Golden Apples… After Carol Marine

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I own Carol Marine’s book Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist and admire her style. (She has paintings for sale on the Daily PaintWorks website. ) Anyway, now I can’t remember where I found the original image for this copy: either her book or the website.

My main focus in trying to copy here was my brushwork. I wanted my brush strokes to follow the form of the apple, or the length of the cloth, or the direction of the shadow, etc. I painted this on a 6×6 birch panel which I gessoed before drawing the image. I used burnt sienna, Mars black, cad-free yellow medium, and Titanium White. The 2 brushes I used were fairly small; hence too many brush strokes!

Zinnias.. after Ali Kay

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This painting came about because I had signed up for something on Ali Kay Studio’s website. I got a free paint-these-zinnias packet as a result, which included a reference photo, drawing template, supply list, and a photo of how Ali Kay did her own painting based off the reference.

I traced the template on to canvas, covered the pencil marks and did the value mapping in Payne’s gray (too dark, I think), and followed her process for underpainting (based on some of her YouTube videos). From what I can determine, she paints the complementary color — so the yellow flowers have a purple underpainting, and so on. On the whole, I think I went to dark on the Payne’s gray — not sure what color she uses — and in the past I’ve ignored pencil or charcoal marks (so I’ll continue to stick with that in the future).

I like Ali Kay’s style for portraits of kids and animals — not sure I’m sold for florals, so I went my own way and did my own thing. For better or worse. I am most satisfied with the flower pot, and using my brushstrokes to convey the cylindrical shape.