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Tessa's scribblings and oil paintings - Budgie - 10-01-2016 Hey!! Thanks for checking out my sketchbook! :D I used to have a sketchbook here when I was 15, but times have changed and so have my works.  Time for a fresh start! I'm currently 19, and I've decided to abandon my photoshop, I sold my cintiq and turned to traditional media only.  I've found out that the smell of paint and the dirty hands from charcoal are my favourite thing (; Being unable to attend an atelier school, great books and people on the internet are a great help. (plus, it's fun!)  Twice a week I get painting technique lessons from a restorer, and I'd love to share my oil paintings. Here's a small overview of some of my works, sketches will follow soon: Studies will be posted soon! This is a picture of my workplace :) RE: Tessa's scribblings and oil paintings - Fedodika - 10-02-2016 Wow Tessa, one of the strongest first posts i've seen on this site! Really beautiful stuff! Are you using a grid method for these? They all seem like reference paintings, which is fine; do you ever plan on painting from imagination? :) Great work great, great stuff RE: Tessa's scribblings and oil paintings - Budgie - 10-04-2016 Hey! Thank you!! I do not use a grid method, usually I make several drawings and then transfer the best one onto the panel. They are indeed paintings from photo. I'd prefer painting from life wayyyyy more, sadly no one I know wants to sit still for 40 hrs haha (; I'm aware of the distortion a lens can give. I also prefer to work from a black and white picture, and look at paintings from old masters in the museum for the colors. (I live in the Netherlands so we've got the rembrants and rubens' nearby) I have a couple of lifedrawing sessions planned, REALLY looking forward to it :D I don't plan to paint from imagination, it's simply too hard for me to get a good result. Drawing from imagination on the other hand, is something I love to do. Right now I'm studying a winter landscape from the dutch painter Andreas Schelfhout. I'll try to snap a W.I.P. picture this week in class (: Cheers! (;