Post Your Dailies here...120 Paintings - Page 41

LarrySeiler · #**601** 03-29-2012, 09:41 PM

Thanks...clarification...my show,

my son will be helping me....

We'll have a good one...

CaKatt · #**602** 03-29-2012, 10:10 PM

Thank you for taking the time to comment. I hope your show goes well.

Using color to portray a mood is something I had not considered. Is it connected to the psychology of color? What colors portray what kind of mood? Hmmm. I must think on this. Perhaps try a different limited palette and see what comes of it. There is so much to learn and I know so little. I feel so young.

(definitely something I have not felt in many a year.) Thank you

CaKatt · #**603** 03-30-2012, 04:02 PM

#6 Split Complementary with Yellow dominant, used diox purple as the blue violet and magenta as the red violet. Not sure what mood this conveys, sunny maybe? But I like it better than the last limited palette. I did find it too limiting and had to add a touch of ultramarine. The painting is also a touch more yellow than the photo. i can't seem to figure out how to color correct that.

8"x10" oil on panel

Tresgatos · #**604** 03-30-2012, 06:05 PM

Larry,

Hope your show goes well - nice that your Son helps you out.

Started the following painting at White Tanks Regional Park in AZ (plein air) but couldn't finish it there. This is on a 11 x 14 inch canvas board - used Winsor Newton water soluble oil paint - Indian Red, Sap Green, Colbolt Blue, Raw Sienna, White, touches of Red and Purple. Could quite get the colors exact through the computer but they are close. Picked up some shine from the glare of the light also.

I have another one I had started out in White Tanks and plan to complete that one also.

Constructive Critique welcome.

Barbara

libby2 · #**605** 03-31-2012, 12:59 AM

Hey Larry hope your show's a huge success!

Here's #10, think I finally figured out that I'm not going to get any different greens no matter what I mix up.

Don't know what I was thinking since I was using the S.A.M.E. blue!

But some how, some where in my mind there was the thought that if I mix a certain purple it will give out a magic green..........

<= me waving goodby to my last two brain cells

Anyway, here it is, pre-primed peptol pink w/pumice that rubbed off, but left an interesting texture that I liked a lot. I paid close attention to trees and earth, mixed up red-violet, blue-violet, yellow from the tube, naples yellow, t. white & black.

Oil, 8x10 canvas covered board

Tresgatos · #**606** 03-31-2012, 04:54 PM

I kept looking at the painting over the last day thinking something isn't quite right about it. This morning when watching an on-line art show, it was mentioned that the sky should be the lightest part of the landscape painting - I will be making the sky lighter in this painting and resubmit.

Barbara

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Originally Posted by Tresgatos

Larry,

Hope your show goes well - nice that your Son helps you out.

Started the following painting at White Tanks Regional Park in AZ (plein air) but couldn't finish it there. This is on a 11 x 14 inch canvas board - used Winsor Newton water soluble oil paint - Indian Red, Sap Green, Colbolt Blue, Raw Sienna, White, touches of Red and Purple. Could quite get the colors exact through the computer but they are close. Picked up some shine from the glare of the light also.

I have another one I had started out in White Tanks and plan to complete that one also.

Constructive Critique welcome.

Barbara

Dougwas · #**607** 03-31-2012, 06:55 PM

Here is #15. It is painted with Pan Pastels over a gouache under painting and is painted on 5 x 7 white Pastelmat. It took about half an hour, not counting drying time. I am pleased with that, because I am normally a slow painter. These exercises are helping loosen up my painting style which is what I have wanted for a while now, but I think I was afraid to do it. Is that dumb?

As you can see, I stayed over at the yellow/ green area of the color wheel. It took a lot of willpower to keep away from putting blue in the sky, but I am glad I did, because it would have ruined the color harmony.

Doug

robertsloan2 · #**608** 04-01-2012, 09:48 PM

Doug, love your green and yellow landscape. It's got something so cheerful and bright about it, lovely country scene. I can see this hanging in someone's house in country decor, it's beautiful.

Tresgatos, wow. That desert scene is so dramatic. I love the big cactus, they are huge in nature and you conveyed its size so well. Gorgeous succulents and distant hills, it looks so arid I can feel the heat.

Libby, yours is a beautiful landscape too. Love the violet accents, they do help harmonize the greens.

CalKatt, I love the violet pine! Your landscape is striking too. Beautiful textures.

I've finally started 120 dailies. We'll find out if I can do this!

Yellow Daffodil
5" x 7"
Pan Pastels and Girault pastel details
Maize Clairefontaine PastelMat coated pastel card
Photo reference by DAK723 for April 2012 Pastel Spotlight challenge.

I also started a daily painting blog that I'll go put in my signature line.

robertsloan2 · #**609** 04-02-2012, 09:04 PM

Second of my Daily Paintings... that's two days I've kept it up. Tomorrow's going to be challenging with home care in the morning and going out in the afternoon. I won't have much time to paint but I'll try something if I'm up to it.

Dawn Waterfall
8" x 10"
Oil pastel on dark gray PastelMat
Photo by Johannes Vloothuis reference for week 2 homework for "Essentials of Painting Rocks."

CaKatt · #**610** 04-02-2012, 10:18 PM

Robert, Beautiful daffydil. I really feel the depth and the color is gorgeous as are the colors in the waterfall. My favorite part is the sky and the way it contrasts with the background trees.
Don't be discouraged if you can't manage to get a panting done every day. My body simply won't let me. I just plug on when I can. It matters more that we persevere.

Tresgatos · #**611** 04-03-2012, 01:27 AM

Robert - thank you for your kind remarks. It really is difficult to do one painting a day - Larry mentioned something about 3 a week as a goal because sometimes we just don't have the time each day. Love your rendering of the daffodil - a wonderful Spring flower.

I re-worked the painting and think I am finished with it - at least for now. Changed many things in the painting. I have to mention that the color is a bit off from the original but fairly close.

Constructive critiques welcome.

Barbara

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Originally Posted by Tresgatos

I kept looking at the painting over the last day thinking something isn't quite right about it. This morning when watching an on-line art show, it was mentioned that the sky should be the lightest part of the landscape painting - I will be making the sky lighter in this painting and resubmit.

Barbara

robertsloan2 · #**612** 04-03-2012, 05:56 PM

Barbara, great changes on the painting. I still love the way the rock wall looks and the scale of that massive saguaro cactus. You've captured the feel of the desert.

Third day in a row! I'm going to keep this up as long as I can - but I even said "health permitting" on the blog, so if I miss days, I miss days. Three a week is a good guesstimate for weeks things aren't going so well.

Waterfall
8" x 10"
Daniel Smith watercolor on watercolor paper
Photo reference by Johannes Vloothuis, week 2 homework for "Rocks" class.

Pinklady219 · #**613** 04-03-2012, 07:31 PM

I should know what number this is -- I'll need to check. Meanwhile, I've started a blog but can't seem to get everything in one place in it. I need to investigate further. Okay, here it is Larry!!! Watercolor and a little pastel. I'm out of paper and used the inside cover of a bristol pad (dotty).
Thank you Larry, how is Gracie?

Dougwas · #**614** 04-03-2012, 07:33 PM

Way to go, Robert. I knew you could do it. As I told you before, I think this challenge makes me paint on those days I don't think I would have painted before (if that makes any sense

). Just paint when you are up to it, but let me warn you, once you really get going, it is addictive.

Here are the latest two paintings. The first is soft pastel over a gouache under painting painted on light grey Pastelmat. The second is also 5 x 7, but is painted with Pan Pastels and painted on dark brown Art Spectrum Colourfix paper. The first one is a dud and even though the second one is a little too dark, I still think it turned out not too bad.

#16

#17

Doug

Tresgatos · #**615** 04-04-2012, 02:37 AM

Good for you Robert - I see you got your homework done already for the challenge - looking good.

I have to start on mine tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback. The rock wall might have been part of a dwelling built by a Native American a very long time ago

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I wanted to do another Iris painting before the Iris all go away. This one is W&N water soluble oil paint on a 11 x 14 inch canvas board. I used a board that had tape around the edges which I removed before I started to paint. Thought the paint would cover it but it shows through - oh well, live and learn. Guess I could treat it as a watercolor and put a matt around it to cover the area. Right now I have become fuzzy-brained as I stayed up later than I intended. Thought I might as well post it before I go to bed.

Barbara

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