08-18-2014, 03:24 AM
Lyra: Very true. I think I'm in the danger of not doing things enough while panicking about not following a clear plan. Got the GNSI Handbook now, and reading bits of it. It's just like a textbook - the size, the format, everthing. It'll probably take a week to read through the whole book, but it seems promising as guide book!
I was in a art college. I was also in bad shape, and shut the world out from my mind. So I don't know how to ask old professors who probably don't even remember me for instruction. Basically I was a ghost for those 3 years, and on.
By the way, a green forest is a very uneven, broken up surface which diffuses light within itself instead of reflecting. Foliage also are not reflective like sheets of copper. That's why we don't pick up green hues from standing in gardens and wood paths. Unless you're near gigantic, tropical leaves the size of an umbrella, then you might get green tints on you. :)
The paint was thinned, so they were often dry enough to work on half a day(or overnigh) later. Sometimes I skip a day, which often let me notice no-no things that I couldn't see before while in the motion of painting. The change in composition was because the first one didn't have good refernece photos, and the receipients of this painting like trees more than architecture. They also own 2 cats and a dog, so I put them in. Making use of those cat gestures at last!
rafa: Oooh, you're right! The animals should be seen more from the front and not much of their top sides, huh?
pnate :Thanks man! Yeah, most importantly is to not let yourself stall, or you'll fall out of the sky!
Jaik :You're right on that it does force me to produce finished painting! Gods know I chicken out of all those BS challenges every single time due to fear of finishing things..... .
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These are kind of just feel-good sketches. I'm having a hard time leaving out the right white spaces for highlights, whereas with oil/acrylic/maybe even gouache I could just put the highlights of white, yellow, etc, back on top large, dark areas without tip-toeing around spots when laying down the large washes. Either I start hauling out the oil paint setups, or get some gouache.
Time Torne Trail, Bear Mt/Harriman State Park.
Cherry Hill, Central Park.
I was in a art college. I was also in bad shape, and shut the world out from my mind. So I don't know how to ask old professors who probably don't even remember me for instruction. Basically I was a ghost for those 3 years, and on.
By the way, a green forest is a very uneven, broken up surface which diffuses light within itself instead of reflecting. Foliage also are not reflective like sheets of copper. That's why we don't pick up green hues from standing in gardens and wood paths. Unless you're near gigantic, tropical leaves the size of an umbrella, then you might get green tints on you. :)
The paint was thinned, so they were often dry enough to work on half a day(or overnigh) later. Sometimes I skip a day, which often let me notice no-no things that I couldn't see before while in the motion of painting. The change in composition was because the first one didn't have good refernece photos, and the receipients of this painting like trees more than architecture. They also own 2 cats and a dog, so I put them in. Making use of those cat gestures at last!
rafa: Oooh, you're right! The animals should be seen more from the front and not much of their top sides, huh?
pnate :Thanks man! Yeah, most importantly is to not let yourself stall, or you'll fall out of the sky!
Jaik :You're right on that it does force me to produce finished painting! Gods know I chicken out of all those BS challenges every single time due to fear of finishing things..... .
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These are kind of just feel-good sketches. I'm having a hard time leaving out the right white spaces for highlights, whereas with oil/acrylic/maybe even gouache I could just put the highlights of white, yellow, etc, back on top large, dark areas without tip-toeing around spots when laying down the large washes. Either I start hauling out the oil paint setups, or get some gouache.
Time Torne Trail, Bear Mt/Harriman State Park.
Cherry Hill, Central Park.