More!

This is what I have been up to as of lately. Not a whole lot of progress on a final product mainly because I have been switching out my palette to find the right combination of pigments to suit my needs. Thus I have been working on color swatches. I can not stress enough how beneficial it was for me to do this, even though I may not be the most elegant object to look at.

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It's getting there... It was brought to my attention that there is a problem with the drawing of the pickle, and that I need to potentially step away from the reference photo and paint a little more intuition. 

3.5 Hour study from life - Graphite 

My face seems really skinny in this.

Any suggestions are more than welcome. Thank you!

Tonights Study

I worked on this study tonight for a little around four hours. I realize that the drawing is off, but my main focus was color relationships. I have a lot to learn but I feel like this is a step in the right direction. I hope to be able to apply this understanding a little more systematically when I am oil painting. 

I was under florescent tube lighting. It is my intent that I will be able to capture the light source effectively in my work, which will ultimately define the color harmony for the painting. This is something I really will continue to explore. 

Any comments or critiques are more than welcome! 

More Work!

I like to draw, or at least attempt to do so. 

These drawings are not as successful as I would like, but they are still a part of the learning process and figured I show post the work any ways. 

I have had the great fortune to obtain the book "Alla Prima Everything I know About Painting" by Richard Schmid, which has become extremely insightful and helpful to understanding how to translate what I see. It will take me many years to really grasp the material but I already feel like it has helped. 

I need to have a clearer distinction between my values. I feel that I need to learn how to make my rendering of values look "cleaner." 

Although this maybe contradictory, I have decided that at times it is not necessary to methodically measure every part of the body. I feel like you get a stale pose, and every elements looks as if it has been considered but not relating to one another. However, this works in some instances, this particular reclining pose would have benefited from more measuring.  

A roughly two hour study of a corner of a laundromat. This was done digitally, and there was some post production done to the painting to give it a little grungier feel. 

Attempting to turn form with color temperature alone. This study was done the other evening based upon the recommendation of my professor Geoff Beadle. I don't believe this was that successful in terms of the final product, but I felt that I learned a lot from it. I will continue to do more studies that play with color temperature.

A drawing I worked on yesterday after the figure session. Roughly two hours or so. 

Once again comments or critiques are more than welcome!