Post Your Dailies here...120 Paintings - Page 36

jmcedeno · #**526** 03-14-2012, 04:33 PM

Hi Larry, I'm sorry missed your class Tuesday and also will tomorrow Thursday, is any way to get these classes if they have been taped ?

LarrySeiler · #**527** 03-14-2012, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by jmcedeno

Hi Larry, I'm sorry missed your class Tuesday and also will tomorrow Thursday, is any way to get these classes if they have been taped ?

they are being recorded, and F&W publications will be making them available to purchase as a series. Very likely in early April...

Dougwas · #**528** 03-14-2012, 06:07 PM

Here is painting #5. It is a 5 x 7 gouache painting, painted on cold press watercolor paper. I normally paint with pastels, but I wanted to try the split-complementary palette and see what colors I could come up with. I think I will play with gouache some more and get used to having a brush in my hand. This is painted from life. My palette was lemon yellow, ultramarine, magenta and white Daler Rowney gouache. I do have M Graham gouache, but I will use the less expensive brand to start out.

Thanks for looking.

Doug

libby2 · #**529** 03-14-2012, 06:58 PM

Thank you for responding Larry (and thanks for catching my mislabeling "split primary"), you are very generous with your time. You gave a great list of links and further suggestions, I do appreciate your taking the time to post them before work.

Really, I'm not trying to get you to do my work for me. I've read through pretty much most of them (today and in the past), and in the past months I've done searches of your posts looking for information on split complementary. I think my confusion is that I misunderstood and was thinking that fr. ultra blue could produce the viridian type greens. It's OK that it doesn't, I just don't want to continue in the frustrating belief that it does. I just misunderstood, sometimes I mis-read things. Now I can let go of that notion and get on with discovering what fr. ultra blue can do....and when I need a viridian, well, then I'll whip out my viridian.

Thanks again, and great webinar yesterday.

libby2 · #**530** 03-14-2012, 07:08 PM

Dave, I believe you are correct and I misunderstood.

I'm from Michigan and agree with you on the lakes there. Here in central NY we have beautiful parks, one, Green Lakes State Park, has water that is an incredible, clear blue. I think both lakes are meromictic lakes, but I don't think that's the reason for the color.

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Originally Posted by DaveGhmn

Libby, a quick note --
In post #516, Larry mentioned that

(By the way, there are very few bodies of water more beautiful than the limestone green of Superior and Lake Michigan...)

I'm pretty sure those blue-greens are viridian based. Here is a capture from a Google image search on "viridian" -- see what you think:

DaveGhmn · #**531** 03-14-2012, 07:49 PM

Libby, had to look up "meromictic" - I don't know, but several of the meromictic lakes in the Wikipedia article ARE strikingly blue-green. Superior and Michigan get far too much roiling to qualify, especially Superior...

Equally incredible is the color of glacial lakes, where (we were told at Glacier National Park) colloidal particles from the abrasion of the moving glaciers causes the refraction.

Dougwas · #**532** 03-15-2012, 04:31 PM

Here is number 6. Another gouache painting using a split complimentary palette. This time I used cobalt blue (hue), cad red (hue), cad yellow (hue) and perm white. The cobalt blue dulled the cad red down. I should have used ultramarine to get a more vibrant violet red. Live and learn.

This is painted on 5 x 7 cold press watercolor paper. I painted this without a drawing. The most difficult stroke was the first one. It may not be the most interesting painting, but it is my daily painting #6.

Doug

jmcedeno · #**533** 03-15-2012, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by LarrySeiler

they are being recorded, and F&W publications will be making them available to purchase as a series. Very likely in early April...

Thank you Larry.

libby2 · #**534** 03-15-2012, 09:28 PM

Here's today's daily. Again split complementary, I tried to stick with "a brush stroke laid is a brush stroke stayed", didn't do it in the background though.
Btw it's a sea-glass window ornament (in case you confuse it with a gaudy dressed up pear in a bow)

Oil, appx. 5x7 on canvas covered board

libby2 · #**535** 03-15-2012, 09:44 PM

Dave, Wikipedia does say that being meromictic contributes to the color, but I seem to remember from many, many years ago being told that Green Lakes has something in it that causes that particular green (microbe, mineral, can't remember, harmless what ever it is). It's quite stunning from one angle when the sun is on it, not quite as brilliant otherwise.

I'd like to see Glacier National Park. Must have been a fabulous trip for you.

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Originally Posted by DaveGhmn

Libby, had to look up "meromictic" - I don't know, but several of the meromictic lakes in the Wikipedia article ARE strikingly blue-green. Superior and Michigan get far too much roiling to qualify, especially Superior...

Equally incredible is the color of glacial lakes, where (we were told at Glacier National Park) colloidal particles from the abrasion of the moving glaciers causes the refraction.

Tresgatos · #**536** 03-18-2012, 02:57 AM

Managed to do a plein air painting today of some Iris I have growing in my garden. Tried to remember everything one needs

This is one of the few plein air paintings I've attempted.

Painted on a 11 x 14 sheet of primed canvas taped to a board - left 1 1/2 inches around edge just in case I might want to put it on stretcher - kind of after the fact - does that work?? Anyway, I am also starting to work with WN water soluble oil paints and used some drier in it. I guess I can consider this one of the 120 paintings - have some others I've done in my "studio" but haven't posted them here yet. Can't manage to do one a day but am painting a lot more than I had been.

Constructive critiques welcome.

Barbara

Tresgatos · #**537** 03-18-2012, 03:11 AM

Here are some other paintings I did as part of the Artwork from Life thread. As long as it is from life I would guess that it would count - hope to finish up the two plein air desert scenes I did about a month ago - those are a real struggle for me - always have so much more to learn. I'll keep trying. I want to get some gouache and try my hand at that - looking forward to Larry's demo.

Barbara

Carnations - watercolor

Washboard - Watercolor and Ink

Red Onion - acrylic

Red Pepper - watercolor on wc paper with gesso painted on it

Resting Hummingbird - quick study - I was sitting in the garden and this bird stopped by to rest for awhile - I had a chance to do a quick sketch and then went inside and did the painting - he is a frequent visitor - we have a feeder for him

Red Grapes - watercolor and ink

Journeyman · #**538** 03-18-2012, 07:01 AM

Just borrowed some pots from my friend Jill and painted this one while listening to the Rugby match on Saturday

6½"x5" Oil, palette Winsor Yellow, Red and Blue.

A good result, at least for the Rugby Wales won the grand slam

Dave

PS Thanks for the Webinar Larry the concepts and the way you are teaching and getting things over to us are superb.

LarrySeiler · #**539** 03-18-2012, 08:25 AM

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I'm from Michigan...

we have a cabin in the Marquette/Negaunee area...and I've taught workshops up there as well. Love spending time around Presque Isle, Wetmore Landing..and the Pictured Rocks...

After a ride out of Munising to view the shoreline of Pictured Rocks...(about 40 miles worth and many many pictures taken later), I was inspired to try and paint the impressions of the water...

This was in 2004 where I was at the height of my using the split-primary palette, and I sought out and added viridian to my palette to help. Up until painting Lake Superior, the palette had served me well...but as said, needed to add viridian.

these three came from that 2004 outing and that palette...

then, after the 2006 commitment to experiment and try to exhaust the limits of a limited palette...I painted this one setup on location...now, the only blue was Fr Ultramarine blue. As said, I include the sometimes use of viridian in this limited palette...and Naples Yellow...(which I did here) and felt I did some justice to the color (of that particular day) of Lake Superior...

LarrySeiler · #**540** 03-18-2012, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by libby2

Here's today's daily. Again split complementary, I tried to stick with "a brush stroke laid is a brush stroke stayed", didn't do it in the background though.
Btw it's a sea-glass window ornament (in case you confuse it with a gaudy dressed up pear in a bow)

Oil, appx. 5x7 on canvas covered board

commended on your interests to get the feel of this palette strategy down. In the back of your mind you can bank on what Emile Gruppe taught, that near any color scheme can be used so long as the values are spot on.

There are two directions one can really aim for with the split-complementary palette strategy. You can paint the colors of the splits directly...but subordinate their amount to that of the dominant color. But...it would be like painting with red, yellow and blue...choosing say blue the dominant color...and then laying in pure and varied values of yellow and red.

I say that...because the gist (for others reading along) is to pretend that the splits and dominant are representative of the RYB colorwheel. IF yellow-green were the dominant color, then violet and red would be the splits.

To "pretend"... with those three colors, yellow-green would be the yellow of choice, violet would pretend to be the blue, and red the red.

Then mix your colors from those piles as if painting normally. Need green? Mix yellow-green and violet to get a proxmity/interpretation of green. It will appear greenish in context...and is a green that fits within the harmony of the dominant color yellow-green.

IF one can picture a particular light outdoors bathing everything seen, a red chair would appear how? Under a blue and white stripped deck umbrella?

Just clarifying for others following along here, Libby...this is good, and I give you kudos too for aiming on the brevity of brush control!!

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