Posted - 05/01/2010 : 15:58
Here is my poil attempt. I have avery limited range of colours I am afraid, and very few brushes so it is not really what i would like it to be.It is meant to be sunset OK THHEN WHERE IS IT?
Can someone transfer this for me , I have uploadewd it to one guy, and used the URL but got nowhere
Like this Sue?The web address (URL) I used to insert this picture was: http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/files/pictures/79/269/20100105165514_70_1.JPG
I got it as follows. Clicked on your picture shown on the Home Page, then clicked on that picture, to get a third picture, then copied the URL from the top window of my browser. There are various ways to do it.
Posted - 05/01/2010 : 17:23
Almost a tropical scene there Sue, what colours do you use, I have started painting oils using a very limited pallette as used by Lowry, ok for me what with painting mainly industrial scenes. Apparently he only worked with Ivory black, prussian blue, yellow ochre, red and flake white. I have had to add naples yellow, hookers green and raw umber as the prussian blue was just overpowering everything else.
Posted - 05/01/2010 : 17:46
This was phthalo blue but I didn't like it . I changed to make it more violet with alizarin crimson but didn't like that either. I like ultramarine but didn't have any. Any way I did the sky in the phtallo blue and cadmium yellow huse. The bridge background is done in midnight black with the stones in various mixes of the black with van dyke brown and on the RHS I added some sap green t o give the effect of moss. I tried to make a slate blue for the path but that failed miserably, The foliage is sap green , cadmium yellow hue and a touch of the blue. I didn't have any titanium white so I used Bob Ross liquid white but it wasn't strong enough to make the colours paler. I will have to do buy some more. After painting the picture I dragged a clean brush down on the reflection of the bridge. The trees are amix of the brown , black and white applied witha palette knife The whole thing took me two hours or thereabouts
Posted - 06/01/2010 : 07:16
Your canal painting almost has a 'moon glow' about it, Sue. It only took you two hours? Gee...you are a fast worker! It has been so hot here today, we had little choice but to sit inside with the cooler on, so I perched myself on a kitchen stool and got working on my painting. I am about half way thru I guess, but I have had enough for today and will look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow. I must work very slowly compared to you... Actually, I can't find half my brushes and I seem to be stuck with the cranky ones. Have to have a hunt and find where I have put them as I need some that are finer than the ones I could lay my hands on. (I find my brushes in the strangest of places...namely my husband's tool chest in the garage usually. So I must have put them somewhere for safe keeping. So...if I were a paint brush...where would I hide?????)
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ
Posted - 06/01/2010 : 10:10
I am trying abit of diversionary therapy maz. Felt so rotten this week with this chest and ear infection I have just done things that I could try and completely focus on . There were an awful lot of errors on this painting in the sky. I had to wipe it off a few times so eventually I had to go really bright and heavy with the paint to hide the mess underneath. However i do fine oils quicker and easier than watercolour
Posted - 06/01/2010 : 11:10
Sue, I have to stop you there..we don't have 'errors' in art, just things we are less happy with, what this project proves is that all of us see and interpret the world differently. It's what I love about the art classes I do at summer school, no two people ever appraoch the subject the same way, and that is what is sooo exciting about creativity, we all have a right to our own view of the world and to express it how we please, it's enough that we try to communicate that view to others, there is no need for comparison, competition or worry about "mistakes" it's our eyesight, our comprehension and our expression..what anyone else sees in it is up to them!
Posted - 06/01/2010 : 12:48
Agree with everything you say, Belle, I am going to have a go at painting the project in oil this afternoon, but will use a small canvas board, probably try for a summer scene.....
Are we painting a picture this year
This is an attempt at oil painting of the viaduct at Stockport....
..we don't have 'errors' in art, just things we are less happy with, what this project proves is that all of us see and interpret the world differently. It's what I love about the art classes I do at summer school, no two people ever appraoch the subject the same way, and that is what is sooo exciting about creativity, we all have a right to our own view of the world and to express it how we please, it's enough that we try to communicate that view to others, there is no need for comparison, competition or worry about "mistakes" it's our eyesight, our comprehension and our expression..what anyone else sees in it is up to them!
