Monet Update

Here is another update :)

i actually got to work on this one outside in the sun today .. it was lovely .. i really enjoyed it .. :)

i think it worked well as the oils were drying faster too :)

more to come hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.

We have had a visit from the painting fairies!

So as it turns out .. my monet piece had a visit from the painting fairies when i wasnt looking (i thought i had put it out of reach from my 18month old it turns out i didnt account for the fact that he is much taller when he gets a stool to stand on and has a long brush taken from my desk in his hand). It suddenly dawned on me what had occurred while i was pondering why my lady's face had a smear of green all over it!!

Anywho, so i took this as a sign that i needed to redo some things and so i pressed on :) I didn't do anything on the water or the front right foliage still have to work on that .. same with the girl i think her hair is too booffy (if that is a word) even though i already made it smaller .. i will have to do that further .. she is too wet to do much with atm. I also have to put the bridge in etc... but apart from that, but i like the way that its progressing still have work to do all over tho :)

I also have apologies as you may have noticed i haven't done weekly smudge or illustration Friday this week. To be honest i did do IF but i am just not posting it. I actually worked on it for a while ... but it just didn't warrant a post so i am not going there. As for my weekly smudge i wrote half a post it was on a book i am reading through but seeing as i am yet to get to the key part of the book i thought i would wait to see how i go with that before posting.
So i haven't been slack i promise!!

Monets Garden Update

Here is an update for Monets Garden.
I will put the bridge back in .. and change the colour of the dress... just working on getting the background etc right first and then will come in over the top .. again needs a couple of days to dry before i go further :)

not sure how the water is going to work out hmm come on oils .. dry faster !!!

Treey Sketches

One of the things i seem to struggle with is midvalues which are close together and light values in general, i tend to get too heavy handed and just go too dark. I was thinking about something Rose had pointed out where she mentioned that Monet didnt always have alot of dark values in his paintings in fact often were alot of midtone values.

As i was doing my monet yesterday i found that this is where i was struggling .. i dont seem to have a problem with dark items and light items next to dark but its the very slight adjustments to the similar midtones and areas which are very light that i seem to struggle with.

So i wanted to do a little practice in drawing something with light values and trying to concentrate on not going to a dark value. as you can see i ultimately didnt succeed in my first drawing as i went dark at the bottom but i blame that on using the wrong medium and support but i kinda was going there a bit at the top wasnt i ?

I must do more of these i think it will help with some of the overall issues i seem to be struggling with.

Monet Update

Here is another update on my monet piece. I have to say i think the oils are beginning to talk to me and we are starting to have a bit of an understanding.

I love acrylic but just when i get to finish mixing my paint with acrylic the kids call me away or the phone rings and before i know it its dried up such a waste. The drying time is a little painful in terms of waiting during the painting but as far my palette i just have all my colours sitting there and can come back to where i left off its great.

I think i am beginning to paint as a draw in cp.. basically in layers .. and building up values rather than trying to smack it all down in the one go ... so hopefully the brain will stop resisting sooner or later and will just do what i tell it to.

i am not sure i can stray away from the details on this one as we get closer to the foreground .. but i am alot loser than i normally am if i can stick with this type of style i will be happy. :)