Das Gras ist grün
More progress on the painting. Other than a couple of touch-ups on the grass I think I can say the background is done. I haven't planned on doing detail in the grass, but that might change. We'll see.
I did the trees and the distant field. This was actually the second iteration on the trees as they were a bit dark to start and they needed a little bit of depth to them.
And then I did a third layer on the trees to make them actually work.
The painting then spent some time upside down so I could do the lower part of the grass without driving myself nuts.
I did run out of the green I was using and had to remix it, which was annoying. I was smart enough to leave enough on the pallette so I could compare as I was mixing. My second batch of green was much larger and I had plenty left over.
I also poked around one of my artmaking books to see how other people do this acrylic thing and the one artist I had a step-by-step for didn't really work back to front consistently, tending to focus on the subject first. So I shrugged and continued on my way.
I think there are a couple little spots in the grass that will need more, but I was wise and mixed A LOT of paint and have plenty more of that lovely green stored in a 35mm film container (obviously minus the film). I'm hoping it keeps the paint fresh for a week or so.
Now we're at the tricky part where I have to do details and decide which spot to tackle first. My initial instinct is to paint a little bit on all of them, but without a good way to keep my colors I fear I am going to have to tackle it one subject at a time. I know with oils I could just throw some seran wrap over it and it'd be good for weeks, but I don't think I could trust the acrylics to not dry into hard little bits of plastic. The good news is I have very few colors I am working with so unity isn't too much of a problem. I still just have one shade of red and yellow. I do have two blues and picked up two shades of green raw umber and burnt sienna plus a shade of purple.
Onward!
I did the trees and the distant field. This was actually the second iteration on the trees as they were a bit dark to start and they needed a little bit of depth to them.
And then I did a third layer on the trees to make them actually work.
The painting then spent some time upside down so I could do the lower part of the grass without driving myself nuts.
I did run out of the green I was using and had to remix it, which was annoying. I was smart enough to leave enough on the pallette so I could compare as I was mixing. My second batch of green was much larger and I had plenty left over.
I also poked around one of my artmaking books to see how other people do this acrylic thing and the one artist I had a step-by-step for didn't really work back to front consistently, tending to focus on the subject first. So I shrugged and continued on my way.
I think there are a couple little spots in the grass that will need more, but I was wise and mixed A LOT of paint and have plenty more of that lovely green stored in a 35mm film container (obviously minus the film). I'm hoping it keeps the paint fresh for a week or so.
Now we're at the tricky part where I have to do details and decide which spot to tackle first. My initial instinct is to paint a little bit on all of them, but without a good way to keep my colors I fear I am going to have to tackle it one subject at a time. I know with oils I could just throw some seran wrap over it and it'd be good for weeks, but I don't think I could trust the acrylics to not dry into hard little bits of plastic. The good news is I have very few colors I am working with so unity isn't too much of a problem. I still just have one shade of red and yellow. I do have two blues and picked up two shades of green raw umber and burnt sienna plus a shade of purple.
Onward!