Painting Demo

 This demo is more detailed than the last one I did.  I used "animoto" again.  To see the demo click on the words "Painting Demo" below the picture. 

Painting Demo


My quest is to keep brush work big and have interesting edges, both soft and crisp.  Whenever I get too detailed I look at the work of Qiang Huang and Carol Marine whom I admire very much.  Both have great blogs.  Qiang Huang also has some youtube demos that are good and Carol Marines's ArtBytes on the Daily Paintworks website are really helpful to me.  In general, just looking at artists you admire can teach you a lot. 

Painting Demo

Painting Demo  (click on Painting Demo to see video, I hope)

I tried using Animoto again for a demo.  The first time I did it with text  and I went over the limit for the free service.  I'll have to think about whether I want to spend the extra five dollars a month for the expanded version. 

Last time I did this a few people said they could see the video.  Only the words of the title shows up on the blog.

Here are the steps with photos, the old-fashioned way:

Step 1 -Tone the surface, I chose this warm color to reinforce some of the colors I would be using in the painting.  The gold color will make the yellows sing.

After I did the drawing, I wiped it off so the wash wouldn't mix with the next layer, something I learned from Carol Marine in here ArtByte on Daily Paintworks


Step 2 - Use a wash (paint thinned with OMS) of the shadow color, a dark grayed out version of the object's color. 

 

Paint the darks so they go outside the lines, it will help with creating soft edges later.

 

 

Step 3 - Start adding the lights and background.  The last steps of the painting include adding more detail, highlights, refining edges to include sharp ones at the focal point and soft one elsewhere.  I use the paints that I have used to mix the colors in the painting to create a neutral background.  At this point I think about including temperature variation within both the lights and darks.

(I forgot to take photos in these last steps.  It happens every time I plan a demo.  It must be because you get so carried away in the last steps of a painting.  Next time I will set a timer. 

 

Last step is to post this on Daily Paintworks and the 30 day Challenge. 

 

15 more days to go on the Challenge. 

Painting Demo

July 17, 2013

The steps for this painting:

The set up I used for this painting.  That is a piece of construction paper taped to a box for the background color.  I got this idea from Carol Marine.  I just bought a cheap pack of it from Michael's.

Feel free to use this photo for your own painting.

 I did this notan with my value viewer to see if I liked the composition.  I was satisfied with the pattern of lights and darks and the path of darks through the painting.


The next step  is blocking in the big shapes in a thin wash.  Before doing this I did a loose drawing of the shapes including shadow shapes.  (I forgot to take a photo of this step.)

Final phase included adding more detail especially to zinnia in front.  The hydrangea in back is very loose.  

Last step:  Posted painting on Daily Paintworks.  It is an 8x 10.
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Artists/carol-josefiak-3555

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