Artist Studio
I painted these 3 watercolors for a scene in Rockland, Maine and I kept changing it to get a better more light filled composition. I will post them first to last and I think you will see that the first image is pretty dark and the movement in the painting is pretty harsh. In the
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Using your own face as your subject matter is not only good practice for your drawing skills, which always needs honing, but it is also fun to change your personality through exaggeration and creative use of color, and line. I am posting a whole series of them that I did and you can see that although I am having fun I am still being serious to the look and features that are unique to me. Try this and let your alter ego come out.
Today I am going to show a step by step demonstration of an oil painting I worked on today, I am sure that it is not finished but it has enough of the work completed that I can talk about it as if it is done. I used as my reference an oil painting I painted about a few months back and I was never very happy with it, although I have found a lot of people like it. I find it to be too clumsy and disjointed so I decided to try it again. The painting below is the first work and the one above is today’s piece.
My new Series is going to be “America the Beautiful” and it will explore the richness of the American natural landscape. I am very excited about it and plan to really explore color, shape and form. I will post pieces from time to time but this the first painting in the series it is a 30 x 40 Acrylic on canvas, and I am try to evoke the feeling of plowed fields and farm land.