02-12-2015, 11:25 AM
Thanks smrr! I'm trying to work on my weaknesses at the moment, comfort zone is getting boring. I used to always be like this with weakness
And I get what you're saying about the colours (thanks for the overpaint by the way!) But actually the image is supposed to be in grayscale lol, I tossed in a few photos to see the colour of the sky and just left that in colour if that makes sense. You are right about the colours though. I think the colours you picked look better than what I went with after taking a break from it. I've done a handful of overcast thingies in the past and they tend to be very grey and flat regardless. Any paintings in particular you'd recommend looking at? I know Gurney and a lot of contemporary oil painters have a lot of nice overcast stuff, but i haven't really looked too much at old master's stuff in that regard
My problem with overcast is more the way the lighting/values works rather than the colours at this point. I studied a lot of hard lighting to learn form and now it's so engrained in my mind I can't seem to distance myself from it, even in studies :( Sometimes overcast things don't even look like they're receiving light at all which just totally baffles me
And I get what you're saying about the colours (thanks for the overpaint by the way!) But actually the image is supposed to be in grayscale lol, I tossed in a few photos to see the colour of the sky and just left that in colour if that makes sense. You are right about the colours though. I think the colours you picked look better than what I went with after taking a break from it. I've done a handful of overcast thingies in the past and they tend to be very grey and flat regardless. Any paintings in particular you'd recommend looking at? I know Gurney and a lot of contemporary oil painters have a lot of nice overcast stuff, but i haven't really looked too much at old master's stuff in that regard
My problem with overcast is more the way the lighting/values works rather than the colours at this point. I studied a lot of hard lighting to learn form and now it's so engrained in my mind I can't seem to distance myself from it, even in studies :( Sometimes overcast things don't even look like they're receiving light at all which just totally baffles me