Postings

                                                Still life oil painting on canvas (16x20)

• The first thing instructed to do is to cover the canvas with gesso. This was applied with an ordinary indoor out door paint brush.

• Let dry for approx 30 min.

• Next apply Burnt sienna with a mixture of mineral spirits.

• Next use view finder to decide the best layout for your drawing (landscape or portrait)

• Find 3 points of your still life to continue off of the canvas so your still-life painting does not look like a flash card.

• Make geometric shapes of each object in your painting to get an idea of scale and balance on the canvas.

Posting #2

• Today we put some life in the man in the painting

1. By holding our brush upside down directly in front of us with our arms completely extended we measure the head of the man from the tip of the brush to our thumbs.

2. After this measurement is noted we then measure the rest of the body in “heads” length. This is to give us a rough estimate on scale of the man in the painting itself.

Note: This part took me a considerable amount of time do to the fact that the scaling of the man is not so easy the first time.



• Next we mixed colors on our pallets.



• Then firming the rest of the drawing up a little the rest of the period while adding a few details.

Posting #3

• Put some color to our painting. Remembering that darker colors go on the canvas first. It also must go on thin, carful not to clump the paint as this will allow you to have more freedom to change things later.

Posting #4

• Using only about five different colors we are able to create nearly any other color

imaginable. Margret is being very patient in teaching me this

• Also today we decided on focal points in our drawing.

“The rule of thumb” is:

1. Use a grid

2. Do not use the center of the drawing or it will look like a vanishing point. (not what were looking for in this case)

3. Use the most detailed, colorful, or an eye (if it’s a face of some kind) etc. these are the points that will draw in the attention of the admirer.

Posting #5

Things are starting to get tedious…

• Added some detail including shadows.

• Learned to put words on the books (which I haven’t done yet)

• Highlighted “lit” areas

Posting #6

-VASE

Darken vase, put in some shadows.

-put paint brushes in.

Posting #7

• Gesso on new canvases for next project (self-portrait)

• Highlights around crock

• Painted over and re-did paintbrushes

Notes: anything that reflects thake that color mix a little bit of the object reflecting. Nothing on the shadow side can be no lighter than the lighted side if it is reflecting.



Posting #8

·         Highlights around crock

·         Gesso next canvas

·         Anything/object that you are painting if it is reflecting from another object use the colors in that object in the color the current object where it is reflecting.

·         Nothing on the shadow side can ever be lighter then the side of the object where the source of light is coming from.

Posting #9
           

·         Fixed flowers on vase

·         Mixed up different colors trying to be a little more precise with matching color from still life

·         Watched demonstration on the chest in the image on its colors and lighting