Last Class - 4 hour painting

I think my headless woman is still my favorite painting - just because of the abstract'ness / loose'ness of it...but i feel i accomplished some decent rendering / value in this one. I didn't worry that she's floating, I wanted to spend my time on the pose and colors, and figured i could paint in a box for her to sit on later. All in all I loved taking the class and I'll keep painting at home (got my supplies and smaller / medium canvas's all ready for free time).

My teacher taught me something i felt was super useful the last 20 min. of class that i thought I'd share. He said. Take 2 hours, paint some simple still life and get it as rendered and polished as you can. Then do the same painting in 45 min, see how it compairs. Then do the same painting again in 20 min, and then 10 min. It will help with figuring out brush strokes, and technic / processes / simplifying color. I thought that would be really fun to do and might be a good learning exercise.

Anyways, enough rambling. Here's the last 4 hour painting - wish I went a little loose'r but whatever. It was a good learning exp.

Painting 4

Tried to focus on a larger portion last week...turned out 'ok' ...but still not really to my liking. I might try to paint broader next week - we have a 4 hour sitting, so i might try and stay away from the 'details' for as long as i can...I wish we just started out with black and white paints so i could really figure out how to deal with value.



meh...

paintings also not THAT red - the iphone does some weird stuff when it takes pics.

Painting 3

I need to

A. Paint bigger (given the time we have to paint)
B. Use bigger brushes (see A.)
C. Get a better range of color
D. Paint bigger!!

one pic with the flash - one without. I never know what's the best way to get these onto the computer with the actual globs of paint i sometimes have in my paintings. Maybe I just need a bigger scanner, rather than using a camera. Plus side I think this ones better than my last 2, even though it has problems of it's own...i like it the best so far.

Giaco Hopper

2 more quick DS paintings from last night while watching TV. One's Giaco - our kitty who wouldn't sit still long enough. The second was my quick tribute to Hopper from a bugs life. (minus the cool bigger / smaller discolored eye thing he had)

DS Colors! Painting

oh man oh man oh man....I walked over to the mailbox at work today randomly assuming i had no mail, and whalla! My R4 Revolution for my DS was here! Super simple to get setup and I'm off! I love this Colors! program. I wish there was an undo button but whatever. Force me to 'think' about things before i paint them perhaps. Also wish it was a bit easier to draw to the edges but...Here's my first drawing tonight testing stuff out. An EYEBALL! heh.



I can't wait to take my DS everywhere! Super Sick. Best toy yet this year.