Drawn to Art

Things have been busy at the Gaston household, so my painting has taken a bit of a back-seat to my Summer activities.

Some things to report… had a great trip to Atlanta and a vacation on Maui…letting my hair go platinum naturally (i.e. gray is great!)…still working on knitting a tank top that will probably be ready in time for next summer…working on preparing for my next rank test in American Tang Soo Do…and trying to get enough sleep!

 I probably won’t take another painting class until Spring and I’m thinking of watercolors.  So stay tuned.

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.