Thursday night Art Jam
I can't post the images because they're all still wet. I worked on the backgrounds on those four oil paintings I started Thursday before last. They look good. I did some changes from the references on all of them and it helped a lot, also corrected Ari's eyes. One was slightly askew. He now looks like he has zombie eyes, but what I want to do is get the pupil in painted over the iris color so it's left off until I can do that in with the very tiny mini-brush.
The water and reflections on the egret now have reflected clouds on the surface of the water, and that livened it up some. The unpainted underpainting looks very natural with it, and some areas will be very similar to the underpainting.
I did puffy dawn golden-edged clouds behind the flying hawk, it needed something other than flat sky behind him. They're in very soft colors. I worked it over a lot and it did what I wanted it to, broke up the shape of the negative space. The sky behind the Twisted Tree came out really cool. Ari wound up on ultramarine velvet because I didn't have Pthalo Blue or Prussian Blue or any warm blue, and mixing a warm blue with a touch of Pthalo Green in the Ultramarine became muddy, because the Ultramarine is too purplish and not a true blue.
So now I have Pthalo Blue on my Blick order when I do it, and dropped some other things to make room for it. I like these alkyds. I can do oils a lot more easily with them and I did some cool wet into wet effects tonight with them -- but the limited range bugged me and so now I'm getting the colors I just didn't have.
I may do more of these oils ACEOs in future, and order some more of the masonite panels. The smooth masonite surface was easier for me to get a clean line on than the others where there's a canvas texture, even a fine one.
It's trippy looking at them now that they've got color and the main subjects are all still monochrome brown. You'll see tomorrow. For tonight they're all sitting in a row on my easel.
Lisa did hers completely and I guess took it with her, though it's still wet. I hope it didn't get messed up with how she carried it. She also did a 4" x 6" emotive portrait, a face from her imagination called Shattered that looks like a broken white mask -- very powerful. Once again we really inspired each other.
I am going to have to finish these before she comes over again because one of them has to be posted on the 1st for Theme Week -- where hopefully it'll get bid up because Theme Week ACEOs have to start at $4.99 to be official entries. I'm only doing one this time. This one is taking much too much work to go for doing a bunch of reflections pieces.
The water and reflections on the egret now have reflected clouds on the surface of the water, and that livened it up some. The unpainted underpainting looks very natural with it, and some areas will be very similar to the underpainting.
I did puffy dawn golden-edged clouds behind the flying hawk, it needed something other than flat sky behind him. They're in very soft colors. I worked it over a lot and it did what I wanted it to, broke up the shape of the negative space. The sky behind the Twisted Tree came out really cool. Ari wound up on ultramarine velvet because I didn't have Pthalo Blue or Prussian Blue or any warm blue, and mixing a warm blue with a touch of Pthalo Green in the Ultramarine became muddy, because the Ultramarine is too purplish and not a true blue.
So now I have Pthalo Blue on my Blick order when I do it, and dropped some other things to make room for it. I like these alkyds. I can do oils a lot more easily with them and I did some cool wet into wet effects tonight with them -- but the limited range bugged me and so now I'm getting the colors I just didn't have.
I may do more of these oils ACEOs in future, and order some more of the masonite panels. The smooth masonite surface was easier for me to get a clean line on than the others where there's a canvas texture, even a fine one.
It's trippy looking at them now that they've got color and the main subjects are all still monochrome brown. You'll see tomorrow. For tonight they're all sitting in a row on my easel.
Lisa did hers completely and I guess took it with her, though it's still wet. I hope it didn't get messed up with how she carried it. She also did a 4" x 6" emotive portrait, a face from her imagination called Shattered that looks like a broken white mask -- very powerful. Once again we really inspired each other.
I am going to have to finish these before she comes over again because one of them has to be posted on the 1st for Theme Week -- where hopefully it'll get bid up because Theme Week ACEOs have to start at $4.99 to be official entries. I'm only doing one this time. This one is taking much too much work to go for doing a bunch of reflections pieces.