André’s 100 Day Challenge: speeding up!

[André Girão Tauffer]

Thanks Deborah! Glad to hear it, I was trying some effects to this end!

[André Girão Tauffer]

Day 14

Did some thumbnails for compositions and values

 

 

And I decided to start this one for my day 15:

 

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Days 15 and 16
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Spent two days trying to get the colors right for this one. Now I’m kind of ok with it. Feels like it’s missing something. Maybe a bit more of contrast with the shadows or a clearer color gradation between the foreground rocks and the background road. Anyways, moving to smth else

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Days 17 and 18

[Shazad Madon]

That long road is wonderful and dreamy Andre. Maybe some contrast in areas would help yes.

Was that from imagination or life? Wonder where this landscape is from.

[André Girão Tauffer]

Thanks Shazad. The ones from days 15 to 16 and 17 to 18 are from nma reference photos. I don’t really know the places

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Day 19 – pleinair

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The day was nice, and than it wasn’t. So I went outside and took another shot at a gray day. I gotta say the lack of contrast due to the lack of sunrise makes it really hard for me to make the composition show. I tried my best, might try again in a second layer later on. Happy with the variation in the foreground.

[l2.diamante]

I think you are getting beautiful compositions

[Peihong Jiang]

I really like the color on Day 15-16, and all subsequent ones. Like, the choice of color is subjective yet realistic, so it has a painter-ly feeling to it.

[André Girão Tauffer]

Thanks diamante! I hope I get even better than!

And thanks Peihong! I try mimicking the local colors but I also give more emphasis to the composition, they might differ from the objects a bit

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Day 20

Sunny day finally!!

It was delicious to go out for this pleinair today, even though it was 8°C…

Took me longer to find the spot than to actually paint it! Anyway, here it is

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Day 21. 5am
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Woke up at 3am to get my gear my bike and go find a place to paint the golden hour. Totally worth it, the light was so beautiful! Also saw several deer and hare on my way to the spot. I think I actually disturbed their free of humans roaming around hour 😑

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Days 22 and 23

Not particularly happy with this one. Spent about 2h on it, 1h each day. Didn’t achieve the color harmony I expected, so I’ll let it dry for now and maybe try fixing that with a new layer on top, or just recycle that into something else

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Day 24.

Couldn’t upload it yesterday due to trying to upload two images together I think, so I’ll post the thumbnails following cause they really helped me here

 

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The thumbnails for day 24. Gotta do more of those

 

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