12-27-2013, 03:48 AM
Haha, yeah, you got me there. I didn't thumbnail anything, was going to just paint from one of the photos and add the foliage frame. Eventually turned into this.....
For future projects, what's a good way to study composition? Despite having studied fine arts a long time ago, I don't recall any lessons on color theory or composition. We just painted a LOT from life, and learned how to build our own canvas.
When I see the master paintings in a museum, I'm just impressed, but doesn't get any deeper than that even though I know there's a lot of some kind of planning going on behind the color and lights and anatomy. Otherwise it won't be as much an artistic painting as a catalog image of a specimen.
For future projects, what's a good way to study composition? Despite having studied fine arts a long time ago, I don't recall any lessons on color theory or composition. We just painted a LOT from life, and learned how to build our own canvas.
When I see the master paintings in a museum, I'm just impressed, but doesn't get any deeper than that even though I know there's a lot of some kind of planning going on behind the color and lights and anatomy. Otherwise it won't be as much an artistic painting as a catalog image of a specimen.