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SCHOOL DAYZ #4

This painting is pretty much the sum of all my still life work. It's way better then my paintings would of been if I had no prior knowledge of what I learned in this class, but at the same time there were things that I wished that I did better. Things that I did well were rendering or making things seem 3-dimensional, colors, and composition in this case how I decide to pick my subject, what to include in the picture frame and what angle that picture frame would be. My instructors criticism included lack of intensity in certain areas like the wooden board on the left and the background curtain, and drawing issues like the cup and bottles wonkiness. Personally I wish that I could of capture the wood grain and rendering of the weird wooden shelf on right, and rendered the background curtain folds better. Anyway I received an 88% a B+ , I just hunger for an A . I have one more to go, which I've already did, but you'll have to wait ;-)
-Brando

SCHOOL DAYZ #2

Painting 2

So my second painting went off better, I had a better understanding of the steps and what I was doing, I'm not saying I was a master by any means or even in full control, I'm saying it made better sense this time. The hardest part was coming up with a composition that was challenging but not impossible to do. I had to of had gone through at least 6 sketches before coming up with one that I liked and could work with but when I saw the lines in my chosen composition, I was in love! I'm not going to bore you with the process of painting this time, it's the same one from the first painting I posted, the only difference was I had to coat the canvas with liquin and yellow ocre before I got started.

My teacher pointed out pretty much the same things I knew I was having issues with. I had trouble figuring out the local color of the lemon and pepper and balancing them between the values of the rest of the painting and that the hanging cloth could have made way a smoother value transitions. He did dig my sense of perspective and ambition, since I had a BUNCH of objects to find local values for, when I could of done less objects. My final grade was a B+ ( ugh, still can't crack an A !).

-B.E. Hughes

I have returned

My bad for deleting this once and re-posting this fan art of Konami's Big Boss...I don't really like it
-Scotti P.

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SCHOOL DAYZ #1

Painting 1

This is my first time I really actually painted. Sure I painted before but it was a paint by numbers way of thinking. That means that my thinking process was, hey the sky is blue so paint it blue, the ball is red so paint it red, the grass is green and so on and so forth, and I've also even did a grayscale and monochromatic piece but that was just me using amateur techniques of not trying to match too many values. But even with values I still didn't even look at lighting. I've drawn from a still life but this was the first time painting from one.
The first thing we did was transfer the charcoal line drawing from newsprint to canvas board in which I messed that up, as you can see by all the initial smudges.
The first painting assignments was to map out our local values, meaning what's the lightest part of a object and what's the darkest part of the object . The paint we use in our class is oil paint, a paint on its own will take days for it to dry, which was a constant problem cause of me not using enough liquin (a paint thinner like substance ), using to much liquin, putting on paint to thick, putting on paint to thin, and losing my local value ( meaning changing the value scale of my objects and having to meaning objects the same value scale) , blurred edges and drawing wise, proportion issues ( the bottle is too small) and perspective issues ( the top of the cube). I also need to learn how to think on my feet , make decisions on the canvas, only mixing local colors then adding shade (black) or tint (white) and stop planning every move.

The positive part of the paining was the drawing of the bag and the ambition of the composition. I also really enjoyed painting the cloth , which was one of the reasons why I chose the next paintings composition .

Anyway I ended up getting a solid B on this painting. Hopefully the next one will be better.

B.E. Hughes