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Day 44. I feel pretty good about the overall position of the figure on the canvas. Still trying to work on some of the details a little better before I ink it.
Day 45. My figure is inked and ready to paint. I’ll have to make a few adjustments to the fingers of the hand near the clip, but I’ll fix that later.
Day 46. Underpainting phase is done. Hard to get a good picture without glare because it is incredibly hot and sunny here in Florida.
I can see 🙂. Looks great! How do you find working with oil paint? I’ve never touched it before.
Thanks Deborah 🙂. I find working with oil paint to be incredibly messy. There is definitely a learning curve just getting used to handling the materials. I can’t just pick it up and use it the way I can with pastels. I have to plan out where I’m going to mix my colors, what solvents I’m going to use, how I’m going to cleanup, etc. I watched a bunch of the painting videos on here to help me plan. I’m starting to get it figured out. On the other hand, I can cover an entire canvas in a few minutes with oil paint, and it would literally take me an hour with pastels, so the trade off is worth it in my opinion. I also find oil painting to be a bit cheaper than pastels, although it probably depends on which supplies you buy. I still plan to do some works in pastels. I think pastels are especially good for quickly adding some color to drawings, but I think oil paint is my new preferred medium.
Day 47. I’m finished for now with this one because it is very hot outside. I might come back to it later and repaint parts. I’m still having trouble mixing the right colors and figuring out how to make them all work together cohesively.
Day 48. I decided to try a different strategy today because I want to practice painting as much as possible. Instead of spending a bunch of time planning what to paint and doing a bunch of drawings, I just quickly chose an image of the model Lillias and did a very quick charcoal sketch and started painting. I also skipped the underpainting. I’m still working on mixing colors and keeping my palette tidy. This is how far I got today. I’ll try to finish tomorrow.
Hi Bryan. This is looking great! Though I don’t know what I’m talking about, your skin colour choices seem to me to be continuing in a really good direction. The warm colours in the face draw attention to it in a really good way. I’m looking forward to seeing it done!
It’s interesting hearing your thoughts about the paints vs pastels. I think this challenge is probably helping us all resolve things – the more we learn, the more we know what directions we want to go in. It’s definitely helping me anyway.
Thanks Deborah🙂 It is still a lot of trial and error for me at this point, but at least I’m starting to get in the right ballpark with my color selections. It’s difficult to mix the right colors on the palette. It takes a lot of practice, but it feels way easier than it did last week. I’m doing the Zorn palette, which means all the colors in my painting were made by mixing yellow, red, black, and white. My wife had to remind me when I was being critical of my painting that this only my 5th oil painting. Yeah, it’s funny to look back on where I started 48 days ago and compare to now 🙂. I know you have made a colossal amount of improvement as well.
Hi Bryan,
I just used a little break to look at your thread and however you might feel about your work, just go back to your first page/days and look at the difference! Just stick with it your perseverance will pay off.
The biggest difference for me is the renderening. I don’t know if it’s because of the medium but especially your last paintings look a lot cleaner and thought-out. Your application of color seems to be much flatter and shape driven like some suggestions mentioned.
And the next time you tend to be hard on yourself don’t forget that you are juggling two balls at the same time with not only learning to paint the figure but also drawing it.
I might not be able to give you a helpful critique but I can say thank you! Your perseverance is really motivating.
Thank you Bryan. We’ve both learned a ton and whilst I certainly don’t expect you to comment on my work every day, I really appreciate your continued encouragement and feedback. It’s been nice doing it together. Your wife is right – you’ve made huge progress and achieved so much in a short period of time. I also find it inspiring 🙂.
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