Post Your Dailies here...120 Paintings - Page 40

libby2 · #**586** 03-27-2012, 05:02 PM

Thanks for taking the time to stop in and give feedback, I appreciate it!

I want to spend some time figuring out how to do trees and earth, they just baffle me when a paintbrush is in my hand. We have some nice trees in our back yard giving good opportunity to practice.

Hope your team wins! My husband's whole family are golf *addicts*, it can be intense.

Dougwas · #**587** 03-27-2012, 05:16 PM

Thanks for the feedback, Larry. I couldn't agree with you more. This journey is all about learning something about painting every step of the way. That is why I am posting paintings I normally wouldn't even share with my family. There are going to be some real dogs along the way, but every painting teaches me something.

I used the same reference for this painting. This time I used Pan Pastels, something I am a little more familiar with. It is painted on 5 x 7 dark grey Pastelmat.

Doug

CaKatt · #**588** 03-27-2012, 05:32 PM

Decided to back up a step from my last painting and try a limited palette with the same reference photo. Not sure how to determine which split to make. The photo seems mainly to be composed of blues and greens so decided on blue-green, green-yellow, red split. Used Viridian for the blue-green and mixed it with yellow for a yellow-green. All my reds seems either too warm or too cool so I picked a warm and a cool closest to neutral and mixed them together. maybe not what a real artist would do but I've got to make do with what I have.
I must say it is an interesting exercise and that I really don't like the result as it stands. It looks like I am viewing the painting through blue tinted glasses. I do plan to go back and rework it, trying to incorporate some warmer colors. Perhaps my yellow green was not yellow enough? Is there some place we can purchase a good quality color chart for reference or would making our own suffice?

9x12 oil on panel

CaKatt · #**589** 03-27-2012, 05:41 PM

Trying to delete the duplicate post. Guess this is the best I can do.

libby2 · #**590** 03-27-2012, 06:21 PM

CaKatt, I picked a color chart up at the local Michaels craft store, same thing that the big fine art store sells. I got the big one because it has split complementary colors.

CaKatt · #**591** 03-27-2012, 06:24 PM

Thanks, Libby, I'll have to see if I can get one next time I go into town.

Tresgatos · #**592** 03-28-2012, 10:27 PM

Still Life

Limited Pallet - Gouache - 11 x 14 on Canson WC 140 CP paper

These were my Son's favorite toys and cup when he was about 2 years old

CaKatt · #**593** 03-29-2012, 05:39 PM

What a sweet painting. I especially get a feel for the satin that the ears are lined with. How old is your son now?

CaKatt · #**594** 03-29-2012, 05:49 PM

#5 Another black and white study of the same photo.
Today I had planned to finally work up a full color painting from my earlier studies but it just wasn't saying what I wanted it to. I just couldn't see putting all that work into a painting I wasn't satisfied with. Spent half the morning tweaking and photoshopping until I came close to the composition I wanted. This is what I was seeing in my head. The bushes look like squashed bowling balls and the tree still needs work but I am much happier with what it says.

8"x10" oil on panel

libby2 · #**595** 03-29-2012, 05:58 PM

CaKatt, this study is gorgeous, I love your brushstrokes. In fact I think all of these studies have been well done. You're inspiring me to do some tonal studies in black & white.

Tresgatos · #**596** 03-29-2012, 06:03 PM

CaKatt - to answer your question, my Son is now 43

OMG such a long time ago

Dougwas · #**597** 03-29-2012, 06:23 PM

I an enjoying looking at paintings from others. It is nice to know that we are not alone on our journeys.

This is another Pan Pastel painting and I think I managed to simplify things. The maize colored Pastelmat shows through in parts of the painting to give it a warm, summery feeling. The violet in the grass was added to harmonize with the mountain. The painting took about 45 minutes to paint. i'm getting faster.

The painting is 5 x 7 and is painted from my photo taken last summer at the bird sanctuary in Salmon Arm, BC.

Doug

LarrySeiler · #**598** 03-29-2012, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by CaKatt

Decided to back up a step from my last painting and try a limited palette with the same reference photo. Not sure how to determine which split to make. The photo seems mainly to be composed of blues and greens so decided on blue-green, green-yellow, red split. Used Viridian for the blue-green and mixed it with yellow for a yellow-green. All my reds seems either too warm or too cool so I picked a warm and a cool closest to neutral and mixed them together. maybe not what a real artist would do but I've got to make do with what I have.
I must say it is an interesting exercise and that I really don't like the result as it stands. It looks like I am viewing the painting through blue tinted glasses. I do plan to go back and rework it, trying to incorporate some warmer colors. Perhaps my yellow green was not yellow enough? Is there some place we can purchase a good quality color chart for reference or would making our own suffice?

9x12 oil on panel

Riding shotgun on route to a three day weekend expo/show with my son to help man the booth. So a few moments here to respond.

I personally think this one works fine...and believe everyone needs to remember what painting the split-comp palette does, frankly...imbues a mood...which benefits are likely most understood and appreciated painting outdoors. There also it becomes easier in squinting the eyes to detect a hint of a dominant color bathing the scene. Experience in time allows room for creative license.

Also, I'm glad to see the experimentation from everyone...but for those lurking..the limited palette is not so limiting that experiments in any number of strategies would reveal...using a color as a pigment soup or mother color then mix values and paint somewhat as normal. Use a neutral grayer value as a mother color. A complementary palette (Payne often favored blue and orange in is desert and sailboat subjects.

A mood forced on a subject as here may not always be realistic as "local" or optical color...but does not cancel out its working.

LarrySeiler · #**599** 03-29-2012, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tresgatos

Still Life

Limited Pallet - Gouache - 11 x 14 on Canson WC 140 CP paper

These were my Son's favorite toys and cup when he was about 2 years old

Really like this one...nice! The limited choices here really embellish and allows the warm color to sing!

Tresgatos · #**600** 03-29-2012, 08:20 PM

Hi Larry -

thank you for taking the time to post comments - most appreciated.

Hope your Son does very well at his show.

Barbara

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