Recent stuff!

I created this video as part of my assistantship. Sometimes it's nice to work with a different medium such as video. 

Nearing the end of the grisaille! 

Figure drawings from last Friday. The model was unable to hold the standing pose so we did two roughly one hour sessions. 

Painting... is hard!

Location of a plein air study.

The result of the study. This painting failed miserably. My professor has coined a term MSB: Murky Shit Brown.  I tried to paint in the shade, and I felt like I was consistently second guessing myself. Must do more! 

To try and redeem my earlier attempt at painting, I decided to do a study of the undergraduate studio. I'm actually kind of happy with this one. It is obviously not perfect by any means but I think it's heading in the right direction. 

I did spend around five hours on this study, and there was consistent lighting, and good conversation. 

Painting! About an hour an half study. The light changed a lot on this painting from when I started, which explains the difference between the painting and what's seen in the photograph. I would still get moments with intense sunlight so I decided to keep that initial scheme. This may have undermined the quality of the final study.

Also on a side note, I was charged by a ground hog while working on this painting. I was unaware that I was around an entrance to his home. I love being around ducks, geese, and ground hogs while painting. It would be difficult to do anything more enjoyable. 

Any comments or critiques are more than welcome. Thanks!

Paint!

Nice Weather for Ducks!

I went out side and painted again, but this time in the shade / gazebo by the lake. In addition to help with my values, the gazebo kept me relatively dry. However...

The painting got rained on in transit from my easel to the car. Little did I know that the drops of rain would begin to remove the paint. So I unfortunately had to touch up the painting back in the studio. Luckily I was able to just use the paint I already had mixed on my palette to touch up the over all painting. 

I began to block in the general color for this painting last night. Instead of working monochromatically, I wanted to block in the general color for each area and than tweak it with more comprehensive passes in the future. 

Paintings

Howdy Do!

2 Hour Study

My 2nd Plein air seemed alright, until I took it inside once again. Once I brought it inside, the colors and values became less than desirable. Since I am a noob when it comes to landscape painting, I was unaware of the suggestion to paint in the shade. Your color and values will become skewed if you mix and paint in direct sunlight. Now that I know, I'll keep that in mind for the future. 

My 3rd Pleinair - 2.5 hours or so. 

This one didn't work out as well either in my opinion. I feel like my eye becomes dead to the scene and to my painting after a little while. I have so much fun doing these though. I will continue to do this more. 

About an hour and half figure study today. 

The first pass of the Grisaille. Small tweaks and adjustments will come to the gray scale before I can move forward with the color. 

The first pass of the Grisaille on this one as well. I need to adjust some issues withe figure and actually define the face... 

Comments and critiques are more than welcome! 

Hoopla!

"Hamburger Ballet" - Oil on Wood - 5.5x5.5 inches

Sent this little painting off to an awesome artist Britt Spencer as a gift. 

A general block in for this piece. 

I started to glaze in some color for this portrait. I will push and pull the color over time on this piece. I believe the blue is too saturated for a painting that is trying to emulate an old Flemish work. I also will refine the edges once I go into more opaque paint. 

Starting the grisaille on this painting... 

as well as this one...

but not this one. Just a small study of some clouds the other day from my studio window, which is not ideal. I had fun either way. 

A three hour figure session. 

There was a painting and drawing marathon today for nine hours straight, with three poses at three hours a piece. 

The 2nd pose turned out absolutely wretched, which is why I am not posting that one. 

However the third and final pose of the evening turned out decently (at least comparatively). I feel the temperature and the values could be tweaked further. The issue with this painting is that I'm trying to capture the right color note, as opposes to the correct value / temperature relationships. I will have continue to work on this. 

Thanks!