Post Your Dailies here...120 Paintings

[LarrySeiler]

Originally Posted by firesignart

sorry this is closer

I like your expressiveness...brushwork...hope to see more!

[LarrySeiler]

Got word today...the series is now available for purchasing! Yes..!

and I think quite the deal...$39...all five sessions plus my study notes and outline, but the real kicker, I sent them the dvd I made of my Last Light Impressions along the Rat River...which is about 45 minutes in length or so, and will be included in its entirety as a download. My videos I ordinarily sell are around that price...so a pretty good deal indeed me thinkx!!!

http://www.northlightshop.com/wetcan...d=wcsanl042512

[Dougwas]

Thanks for the feedback on my painting, Larry. I see what you mean and I will keep it in mind the next time I have that situation.

I just purchased the course, but I am unable to download the files. I get an error message every time I try so I sent an email to Northlight. Hopefully I have an answer ready for me when I get up tomorrow morning. (I'm on PDT) I want to get my hand on it now, but I guess I'll have to wait. I can't wait to get it.

Doug

[CaKatt]

Doug, I was in the middle of watching a download series from Northlight last week when they updated their web site. Suddenly nothing worked. I called and they emailed the links to use. I still can't download directly from the site. I would recommend calling them.
Katt

[LarrySeiler]

Originally Posted by Dougwas

I just purchased the course, but I am unable to download the files. I get an error message every time I try so I sent an email to Northlight. Hopefully I have an answer ready for me when I get up tomorrow morning. (I'm on PDT) I want to get my hand on it now, but I guess I'll have to wait. I can't wait to get it.

Doug

that figures, doesn't it?

one of the challenges, on-going pestilences of technology which continues to vex all of us!

I'm sure it will get fixed quickly...I'll let Sarah know as well, Doug!

[firesignart]

since the last one was fun I tried another!

[carol_lee]

loving these!!!

[Tresgatos]

Thank you for your feedback Larry and the information on the tone chart - will need to study that.

Barbara

[ItsaWonder]

Hi everyone, I was in the class, too, and then I forgot about this thread. I just caught up reading it, and it's fun to see everyone's paintings as we're all on a similar journey. Nice to have some people to be on the journey with. I also started my blog recently! This is not my most recently painted, but is my most recently blogged painting. I am still trying to figure out why sometimes I can paint like I want and sometimes I simply cannot! (something I wrote about earlier in this thread). One thing I have figured out is when I run out of space on my palette, I am in danger of doing a bad painting..... well, we're supposed to do at least 120 bad paintings, so it's ok.

As I said on my blog, I'm having trouble with my images looking like my paintings. I think this photo actually gives me more credit for gettig light and depth into the flowers than I really deserve when you see the real painting. The vase reads pretty accurately. This is painted in acrylic, on a 6x6" panel. The image looks huge as I am writing this. If I preview and it looks equally huge, I am not posting it (well, it doesn't look quite as huge in the preview, but still quite large. This is my first time posting an image to Wet Canvas. Is it supposed to look so large and close-up? It doesn't look so large on my blog....)

Anything anyone can ever say (nicely) to help me paint better, I will happily listen.

Be well, everyone.

Meredith
www.meredithadler.blogspot.com
"Paint Like Nobody's Watching"

[LarrySeiler]

Originally Posted by ItsaWonder

One thing I have figured out is when I run out of space on my palette, I am in danger of doing a bad painting..... well

If I understand what you are saying, most of my smaller paintings afield are done on my 9"x 12" Guerrilla pochade box, my palette 9"x 12"...with my pigments across the top and side, and my mixed up strategy pigments (a pigment soup, or split-complementary, etc) taking some space below that.

For me...the routine calls for painting in "steps"...then wiping off the mixing area of my palette.

In some regards, this is easier done with oils...but, I have 35 years painting with acrylics as well. It is different to be sure. Tending to use white styrofoam plates when I paint acrylics, paint along the sides mixing in the middle. Still...I'll find steps..blocking in the masses assigning the main values. Clean...wipe off plate, or use new. Reset up the paints...move to the next step, etc.,

If, and when I do the Go To Meeting on Wet Media...I imagine I could do a short segment on managing the palette for acrylics. In truth...after awhile it becomes such a habit or routine, that there is no more thought to it. Its more about knowing how a painting begins and progresses, and finishes then it is about space on the palette.

This is my first time posting an image to Wet Canvas. Is it supposed to look so large and close-up? It doesn't look so large on my blog....)

Depending on your editing software...(I use Photoshop) you should be able to save the size of image, its pixels...the image's quality. Which will affect the size viewed in the forums. What you have is the maximum size...but small is no issue.

This one here...I saved at 110 resoluton (dots per square inch), and height adjusted to 4" maximum...and at 9 on quality...

I like your contemporary realist flare to compartmentalize the values and color...breaking the complex to essentials...

What is a bit unsettling for me, is the vase going off the bottom so much, or perhaps that the edge of the table behind it disappears into the body of the vase, not moving behind it...as though the vase is swallowing up the table's edge...

I like the subtle differences in darks and lights in the flowers, giving them real character anchored in space. Nice job on that!!

[ItsaWonder]

Larry! Thanks for changing the size of my painting. That huge one was giving me a headache. I can breathe now.

Once I figured out that running out of palette space was a big issue, I started using freezer paper for my palette and covering it with a fresh sheet when I run out. Sometimes I lose some of my mixes that way, but it seems worth it when I balance that out with being able to create clean fresh mixes.

I have so much to learn about editing photos, and I will take what you said and try to figure it out. I appreciate it....

Thanks, too, for what you said about my painting, and for telling me the unsettling part. There's even an extra lesson here for me because....there is no table in the painting--it's the sidewalk. Part of the sidewalk is in shadow, part in light. Now, I don't mind if people don't see it as a sidewalk, because how are they supposed to know that's what it is from this painting. But I don't want people to see it as a messed up table, so that gives me something to ponder.

Thanks for your time, Larry. You made showing a painting here for the first time a positive experience, and definitely worth it for the learning!

Meredith
www.meredithadler.blogspot.com
"Paint Like Nobody's Watching"

[carol_lee]

Hi,
At last got the courage to open up my "new" gouache paints... bought last February been waiting for Larry's new webinar to start but finally got the courage to "jump in"..... in our art work shop we often get topics to work on at home and bring in for critique.... first one, critique will be this Tuesday [3rd of May] topic Independence Day... we just celebrated 64th... with or without the day.... next one for the 22nd is Taxi will really have to do some brainwashing for that one.... anyway I chose a photo of my grandson Noam riding a bike... added the flag For Independence Day relationship. my first gouache..

Really felt way out of my comfort zone.... with oils I was used to the ease of spreading the paint.... here it was so different... experimented with thicker and more diluted paint.... really have a LOT to learn...

Bought a small set of gouache... not all the colors Larry suggested so will have to buy them separately....Used A4 400gr watercolor paper.... should have toned it first... then maybe the paint would have gone on more smoothly..

Would appreciate any sites or tuts to help me!!! Looking at it online needs some tweaking.. so any suggestions would be helpful!!!!

Thanks for taking a look!!! Now to blog it... have really been lax about that!!!

[Tresgatos]

I started the oil painting of these tulips using a live plant as a model about a month ago and didn't like the initial result so I put it aside. I decided today that I would give it a go and finish it no matter what it looked like. So following is the result of my "Wild Tulips" in W&N water soluble oil paint on an 11 x 14 canvas board. At least I was painting today.

Barbara

[firesignart]

Spring Daffodils
9x12" acrylic on canvas

thanks for comments, so glad to be painting!

[carol_lee]

Originally Posted by firesignart

Spring Daffodils
9x12" acrylic on canvas

thanks for comments, so glad to be painting!

Love your muted tones and the shaping of the statue