This was fun. I kindof overworked the back side of the globe and some tweaking could be done to the shadow, but I don’t think it’s too bad for a 3 hour painting.
Next up is a High Key painting. I was going to use white shells in a glass bowl, but then thought better of it. I need to be realistic in what I can accomplish in the time allowed for my assignments. So I went with cup and saucer (actually a bread plate), lemon, and tea bag. I think it turned out okay. This was a loss-stress painting!
One Word: YIKES! Painting the illusion of fabric is much harder than I imagined. I do okay with pencil rendering of fabric, but painting it is tough.
So for this assignment I decided to pick spools of thread. I had them on a dark background, but decided that lighter would be better.
It was painted on a 12″ x 16″ gesso board and was a B****to paint. I think I like canvas better. : )
A few onions, a knife, a cutting board and… no elipses!!!! I like how this one turned out.
Had to paint a patterned object this go round… Wish I had more time to paint. This took about 4 hours. I know it could have been better if I had more time!!
This was another assignment we had combining the glass and reflective objects. I kindof ran out of time and didn’t have a chance to fix the elipse on the glass. But I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
This was more fun than the brass. I think I’m getting the hang of it! And I love painting pears…
So now I’ve moved on to exercises with reflective objects. This first one is brass. It was harder than I thought! This is the setup and the finished painting.
Whoa. Learning how to paint glass was interesting… In concept it’s easy: paint what’s behind the glass. In execution - not so easy. I had to short change this assignment a little - only spent 2 hours on it. I do like the distortion, but I should have spent more time on the shadows. Oh, well. On to “highly reflective surfaces” next!!!
