Finally pushed through a long session today and got this one done. I’m sure there are a few highlights to do and small tweaks when I look at it tomorrow, but happy with the final work. I’m sure I’ll look back on this in the future and laugh at the quality, but for today, it’s a good start.
Since the last session, the roses were touched up (yes, again), leaves were finished, stems done, and the ever intimidating glass vase wrestled to the painterly mat.
Woohoo! Time for wine.
Stage 2 incorporating values, hair, and some of her coat patterns. Saving the challenge of the face for last. Liking the way this is shaping up. First time attempt at complete dog drawing.
This took a couple of 30 minute sessions, so another hour or so.
Started some sketching of the dogs. This is the ball-obsessed puppy. About a 30 minute effort, focused on proportions and various angles of the sitting pose. Bad lighting on the photo, but you get the idea.
This was done with my right hand, my dominant hand by far.
Did some work on the bull ring today, but only a couple of hours and not enough progress worth posting. So, changing gears for a sec and going with a recent sketch of still life. Did this about a week ago and toyed around with some colored pencils. This was before my most recent sketching class that covered the value scale. Probably would have helped with the depth of the bowl. This took about an hour over 2 sessions. Next up is a sketch of one of the dogs and her ball obsession.
No new painting updates today – been a busy week at work, so no play time in the studio. But in the spirit of blogging discipline I wanted to post.
To the untrained eye, this post could look like, well… vomit. But it’s actually the painful reality of painting variations of sand hues. Gotta love that ochre and gray mashup!
The base mix for the arch yellow/sand was ochre, white, a little raw umber, and a spec of cad yellow. The grey is a standard mash of equal parts ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. To move the range of yellow ochre around, I experimented with varying values of the gray mixture. Fun stuff!
