Pitcher With Flowers

[Phranque]

Very skillfully painted, Bill. I really like the juxtaposition of the real flowers with their decorative counterparts on the jug.

Critiques and comments are always welcome.

[PhuongMy]

The flowers are delicate, warm and realistic.

After a several more glaze layers of color. I’m actually using the same Torrit Gray by Gamblin for the background color, into which I’m mixing some Burnt Umber, and Raw Sienna for a degree of “warmth”.

At this time, I’m a “dipper”, meaning that instead of rubbing medium onto my dried surface, I dip a bit out of my medium cup using the tip of my brush. I then mix it with my paint on the palette before applying it.
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The painting is a bit warmer than the photo shows. I’ve modified the photo toward that warmer color bias in Photoshop, but I cannot get it to update when I post it here, for some reason. :confused: :confused:

Nevermind……this is NOW a rather accurate representation of my painting. I just renamed it when I saved it out of Photoshop, and this site picked up on my NEW image!

oil painting (from middle of April 2018)

C&C are always welcome.

[WFMartin]

This is my final post for this oil painted subject.

“Flower Pitcher”…16″ x 20” oil on RayMar Linen Panel

Now….for this painting, I have used a trick that I found to make a glistening, spectral highlight take on the appearance of being whiter-than-white. That involves mixing the smallest bit of the complementary color of the object upon which the highlight is apparent with the white paint, thus making the highlight appear to be whiter-than-white. Of course it isn’t—it is just made to appear as such, based upon a bit of simultaneous contrast. In this case, the pitcher is a dull sort of beige, or yellow. Therefore, I have added a tad of Ultramarine Blue to the Titanium White as a complement to the color of the pitcher. It works,! Give it a try sometime.

Anyway, this is my final post of this painting.

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[midwest]

Another instructive thread added to my favorites:)

Kathie :

[goldensun]

Extraordinary work on that vase, and the flowers as always are impeccable.
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As I prefer paints that dry slowly I have no interest in using WMO or alkyds, although I admire some works painted with these paints.

Gil
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[HwyStar]

Excellent work Bill! I love the contrast of the handle against the background and the flower. The light spots on the top and bottom of the handle are perfect. Great work!

Robert Hopkins
Website: https://roberthopkinsart.weebly.com/

[carolkay]

Beautiful – it glows

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[AnnieA]

This is absolutely gorgeous, Bill! I probably wouldn’t have noticed it until someone else mentioned the bottom of the pitcher, but I think the issue may be that the pitcher is slightly off center, in other words, the right and left halves, if you imagined a centerline right through the middle, aren’t exactly the same. It looks to me that the right half (as viewed) bulges out just a little bit more. But it’s soooo minor that maybe it doesn’t really matter, and maybe I’m just not reading the shadow part of the vase correctly. Anyway, I don’t really notice it in the final version…I wrote most of the above before I your final post and am leaving it because I’m curious to find out if you had made adjustments or if my eye just didn’t catch what was happening correctly.

Anyway, I fell in love with this piece before it was even done! The glow of both the flowers and pitcher is magical.

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[WFMartin]

I just sold this painting at a local art show–the Glendale Art Competition.

I was allowed to enter two pieces. One was juried in, and this one was rejected. However, this one also sold.

At this show, all art hangs for the first week end, whether juried, or not. Also, at this show they allow high-end buyers to preview the show prior to the opening day. Hence, the number of sales at this show. I have sold many paintings at this show, as well as having received a couple of awards in the past years.

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[TWAdair Art]

This a a beautiful painting. Ive seen other artist do this approach. I find it interesting. Why do you painting it all grayscale first? I’m assuming, all the color are glazes?

Tylor W. Adair
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[WFMartin]

This a a beautiful painting. Ive seen other artist do this approach. I find it interesting. Why do you painting it all grayscale first? I’m assuming, all the color are glazes?

Thank you for your comment.

The concept of using a grisaille (gray) underpainting at the beginning is as follows:

Color has 3 attributes, or dimensions. They are Hue, Value, and Chroma.

Hue is the identification of the color, eg.: Blue, Green, Red, Magenta, etc.

Chroma is the grayness (dirtiness), compared to the purity of the color.

And, Value represents the lightness or darkness of any specific color.

The concept of painting a grisaille underpainting first is that once it has been completed in as accurate, and as detailed a manner as possible, one dimension of “color” has already been solved, and the only things that remain is to apply the last two dimensions–Hue, and Chroma. That truly makes it super easy, and straightforward.

I always tell my glazing students that once you have completed a very accurate grisaille underpainting, the rest of the painting nearly paints itself, it is so easy to accomplish, by glazing over the gray underpainting.

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https://williamfmartin.blogspot.com

[stapeliad Moderator, NYC]

Congrats on the sale Bill!

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[AnnieA]

Bill: Congratulations on getting juried in and on the sale!

I’m just curious, is it a Rosewood pitcher?

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[Raffless]

I love the simplicity of this. But your colours are really harmonious. Bill can i ask if you’ve tested your ‘trick’ highlight thang on objects that are cool in temperature? Ie. You say to put a bit of the locals complimentary colour into the white to make the highlights sing. So putting a warm colour into the white rather than a cool. I’d be interested to see if it was just as successful as this?

[Hamburgefions]

This a a beautiful painting. Ive seen other artist do this approach. I find it interesting. Why do you painting it all grayscale first? I’m assuming, all the color are glazes?

I think that on this forum, there is a great misunderstanding about what glazes are.

For me, all paint layers applied in a transparent way (whether they contain transparent pigments or opaque pigments) are, what I call, glazes.
Mostly it is done with transparent pigments, but you can also apply opaque pigments in a transparent way.

I believe Bill calls all thin layers to be glazes, no matter if they are transparent or opaque. But he’d better explain it himself (maybe he already did in the past).

A whole difference, when talking about glazing.

Mark.
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