Dawn of Twilight: Hello Mr. Tree. Will you pose for me?

Friday, February 02, 2007

Hello Mr. Tree. Will you pose for me?

I've been working on the background of this piece. I've left the girl untouched so she's pretty messy. I've also painted and repainted the tree leaves about a hundred times and took several reference pictures while walking around ateneo. lol it's a nice place for doing tree studies. :D

I'm seeing anatomy issues. grr...

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************updated February 6, 2007************

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here's some progress on the current piece...

here's a lil speed paint. forgot to put in a few things. maybe no one will notice. :D all in all it's about 30-45 minutes :

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Nice speed paint! The current WIP is progressing really nicely too. I'm looking forward to updates. :); 10:16 AM
Salubri said...: Thanks for dropping by Laura! I read your profile and I must say... those modern art professors are what scared me into not going to Art School. lolz

I added your blog to my links btw. ;); 2:24 PM

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Leonardo da Vinci - "The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance"

Richard Schmid - "Remember--soft edges in a painting are not an end in themselves. They must be APPROPRIATELY soft and should conform to what you perceive them to be in your subject. That is what will make your edges look authentic. Arbitrarily softening everything is like intentionally mumbling when you speak."

"Real drawing is a discipline that must be maintained by constant practice. It is like staying in physical shape. Knowing how to do it must be accompanied by actually doing it. Tracing to get the drawing reduces you to the level of a child playing with a coloring book, and it's not as much fun as it was when you were three years old." "When you finish a painting started as a tracing, there will be little sense of achievement, except perhaps for the patience required to color it. Tracing is degrading because you will have denied yourself the freedom to use your own powers of self-expression. Is that really the way anyone should want to be an artist?"

Pablo Picasso - "From the moment that art ceases to be food that feeds the best minds, the artist can use his talents to perform all the tricks of the intellectual charlatan. Most people can today no longer expect to receive consolation and exaltation from art. The 'refined,' the rich, the professional 'do-nothings', the distillers of quintessence desire only the peculiar, the sensational, the eccentric, the scandalous in today's art. I myself, since the advent of Cubism, have fed these fellows what they wanted and satisfied these critics with all the ridiculous ideas that have passed through my mind. The less they understood them, the more they admired me. Through amusing myself with all these absurd farces, I became celebrated, and very rapidly. For a painter, celebrity means sales and consequent affluence. Today, as you know, I am celebrated, I am rich. But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown--a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest."

William Bouguereau" - One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian."

"Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the morning to come...My work is not only a pleasure, it has become a necessity. No matter how many other things I have in my life, ifI cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable."

Chris Saper - "It is a beautiful world out there. Someone has to paint it and it might as well be you."

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Warm light = cool shadow & vice versa

You made a mistake and you hit control+z? You stare at your work and you realize it's traditional media. lolz

Shadow, less saturated than light

Skin. A question of orange?

Complementary? Stare at the color for a while then look into a blank white space. You'll see it there. I'm serious. You'll see it there! :P

Skin in Shadow = Not a darker version of skin in light. it is a different color.

Don't use black. It'll kill your picture. If you need to use one mix your own.

Grey= R+B+Y then add white.

Shadow = Complimentary of light

Nothing in nature is saturated. Saturated colors are all man made.

Brown = Violet + Yellow

Warms pop. Cools recede.

I was erasing my work on Painter the other day and I instictively blew on the monitor. lolz

Dawn of Twilight

Friday, February 02, 2007

Hello Mr. Tree. Will you pose for me?

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