Post Your Dailies here...120 Paintings - Page 49

Dougwas · #**721** 06-04-2012, 07:18 PM

I am sure I will get addicted to plein air painting. I love being outdoors and I love painting, so it should be a fun experience. The box is the perfect size for my needs. After reading some threads in the Plein Air area of WC, this probably won't be my last painting box. Oh well. There are worse and more expensive habits to have.

It has been a few days since the last painting. I decided to try the Thunbox in studio before taking it out on location for the first time. It felt a little weird at first, having the box sit on my lap, but then it was just like normal. The palette is a little smaller, but I am sure I will get used to that. I will also get better in knowing the amount of paint to put on the palette.

This is painted on a 4 x 6 canvas panel and I used W & N WMO's. I used a different split complementary palette. This time it was ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow medium and cadmium red deep along with titanium white. I like the greens you can make with this palette. The values can use some work.

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Doug

Dougwas · #**722** 06-07-2012, 06:46 PM

Here are the latest two paintings. The first is painted with the same palette as the last post and painted from a photo reference. It is painted on a 4 x 6 canvas panel using WMO's.

The second painting is also painted on a 4 x 6 canvas panel using WMO's, but it is painted from life. I have been itching to get outside and do some plein air painting, but the rain hasn't stopped, so a still life from life will have to do for now. I just used two colors (ultramarine and cadmium yellow pale hue) and titanium white just for tinting. It was a challenge painting a white object without using pure white in the painting.

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Thanks for looking.

Doug

Pinklady219 · #**723** 06-11-2012, 10:29 PM

Just putting another pic up here for Larry to critique. Let me know and thank you so much!! Carol

LarrySeiler · #**724** 06-14-2012, 09:01 AM

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Just putting another pic up here for Larry to critique. Let me know and thank you so much!! Carol

hope you'll continue to push the envelope even if I am not around to make comment. It is mostly about your growth...and I do not obligate myself to critique...but do try as I may here and there.

If I were to convert this to grayscale...there would be a lot of similar values. Try to push more variation. Keep your darkest darks nearer...

also...be prudent with edges, which always read as a detail that supports or suggests depth illusion. For example distant edges of snow banks and such that appear harsh. Soften and obsess with edges, breaking them up, obscuring, etc., a harder edge says "here"...not back there...and when you put harder edges "back there" it flattens the illusion of depth....

Into my second day at a plein air event. A ten day event in total...so, off to paint. Take care...keep at it everyone!

Tresgatos · #**725** 06-14-2012, 02:17 PM

Hi Larry,

Wow - sounds like you are having a great time plein air painting - envy, envy. I wanted to share a painting I just finished that I had re-done in WN water soluble oil paints from a watercolor painting I had done last year. Managed to change a lot about it and feel it is better than my watercolor. Was hoping for some constructive critique but you are having too much fun so I will post in another area for critique, however, I did want you to see that I am still trying to paint. This particular bird is a Rainbow Lorikeet and lives in New South Wales, Australia. It may live in other places but haven't gotten that far in my research. My Cousin had sent me a photo of this bird and said it was his regular garden visitor. He is getting married in July of this year and I wanted to send him this painting as a wedding gift but needed to see if it needed anything else before I send it off.

Barbara

Pinklady219 · #**726** 06-18-2012, 01:09 AM

Larry, I took your advice and came up with this one. Thank you so much for your help. You have no idea what it means to me to improve with my painting. Carol

LarrySeiler · #**727** 06-18-2012, 01:16 AM

There you go...you've pushed your values contrast...and color. Back there feels back there...near feels near. Very nicely done...

shercules · #**728** 06-29-2012, 04:21 PM

Hi I am fairly new and started doing a daily two days ago and would like to participate in this project if I may. I am looking to expand my skills and open my creative mind up more so I am trying to do these paintings quickly. My size is 8"x10" on these. The first is the leaf done on 06/28 and the second was done today 06/29.

LarrySeiler · #**729** 06-29-2012, 11:13 PM

I like all that I am seeing here...I'll just say again, that the daily exercise should not, ought not interfere with your regular painting regimen. It should ask little of your time. A one hour post card size effort.

Not to say that other sizes, other efforts are not working to help you improve, but this self-assignment ought not to feel burdensome, nor overwhelming. It ought not take place of your regular painting regimen.

I've been gone to a plein air event for ten days...quite fun, extremely exhausting. I had one piece that was awarded an Artist's choice...which is perhaps the best award in my mind, chosen of your peers...by 167 other painters.

It was of Jason Prigge, another painter...at the end of a long day, sitting beneath the lights of a micro brewery Inn...reflecting on the day, enjoying a porter or two. A throw back to the days of the Impressionists, friends gathering at the cafe...even painting one another. It was a nocturne, that is...painted at night. From 9pm til about 11:30 pm...20"x 16" oil...

and another...was painting a painter, painting a festival...125,000 people, during the Strawberry Festival in Cedarburg, Wisconsin...12"x 9"...the artist is Mark Zelten

Every painting certainly advances us...but many works obligate us for one reason or another with its end necessary to fulfill a cause, event...commission, etc.,

these 120 paintings...are to be small...or 6"x 8"...6"x 4" or 5"x 7" and the time held to an hour or less means...and thus we can experiment, try various palettes, tones and undertones, etc., and educate ourselves to very specific things. Glad to see the works...keep pushing,

LarrySeiler · #**730** 06-29-2012, 11:17 PM

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Doug

awesome box, Doug...way cool!

I have a dozen Guerrilla boxes and tripods, for workshops...students to work with. A great box...

shercules · #**731** 07-01-2012, 09:32 AM

Hi Larry–

This is my third painting. Again it is an 8x10 because I bought 7 of this size canvas board and it is oil. I painting this in approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes. It my back deck looking out the window.

I really enjoyed doing this although I am not crazy about the turn out. I did no preliminary work, didn't lay anything out, no sketch, no nothing. So looking at it I see distortion and a lack of depth, but I don't really care. It was great to just lay down some paint and relax about the whole process. I am excited to continue doing this. Also I have started a blog as suggested if you or anyone else is interested, http://alenasdailypainting.blogspot.com/

LarrySeiler · #**732** 07-01-2012, 10:00 AM

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Hi Larry–

This is my third painting. Again it is an 8x10 because I bought 7 of this size canvas board and it is oil. I painting this in approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes. It my back deck looking out the window.

Nice effort in 80 minutes! Good...keep it up! Keep it small...direct, unobtrusive to your day's time and commitments. This way, one will develop the habit to do this a long haul. Also, its funny...when you miss a day or two after developing the habit, it will get to you. A bit of emptiness...which is good, it means you are connecting, learning, growing.

I would suggest squinting your eyes...see the darkest darks, darkest accents in the foreground to be played against the mid and most distant background. Push those darks to get more pop, more dimension and depth illusion. Darks are darkest nearer to the eye...the same darks lighten going back...

nice..!

shercules · #**733** 07-01-2012, 01:32 PM

This is painting #4. I haven't done a still life since college, it was fun. I didn't have a piece of fabric per sae, so I used an old hair cutting cape from my hairdressing years

. It is an interesting iridescent purple, blue, and pink but I didn't even try to go there! The pitcher is very old from my great grandmother and I have wanted to paint it for a long time. For not doing any prelim work I feel pretty good about the over all shape. This one was more fun than yesterdays by far for me.

same size, oil on canvas board and 2 hours

ItsaWonder · #**734** 07-01-2012, 02:36 PM

Larry! Congraulations on your much-deserved Artist's Choice award. What an awesome piece of work. And I love, love LOVE the one you did at the Strawberry Festival. Gorgeous piece. How inspiring.....

I am going to a one-day plein air workshop in a couple weeks specifically so I can paint the other artists...I'll post here if I manage anything worth posting!

Meredith

shercules · #**735** 07-02-2012, 01:53 PM

Hi Larry–

Thank you for the feed back on the outdoor painting. It's funny creating depth with shadow can really be a problem for me at times. I am using your squinting suggestion and can grasp what you are saying. I am currently mid painting so this has been great for me to practice and I even think I can use some of these for studies to paint in a larger size.

Any way here is painting #4

This is from a photo, my goal of course was to paint it quickly but to also really lay on the paint and not blend it so much. I really like the way this one works. Not being "neat" with the paint and creating "nice" edges is difficult for the control freak in me. When I got to this point in the painting I stepped back liked it and put my brushes down. I am really enjoying this challenge.

Thank you again,
Alena

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