oil painting again for the first time in forever
had a rocky start
I blew it when layering the paint (oily, muddy baby-shit first layer, unpleasant), but today's layer was fun.
This is a work in progress. I enjoy watching art in progress as much if not more than looking at finished art, maybe you do too?
the story behind the series I'm doing will emerge as quickly as I can paint and dry some oil paintings.
so, glacial.
This is the most recent update, and it is still unfinished, but getting there. There is no photo of the version I was talking about yesterday but imagine a horrible mess and me looking at it and sighing.
Letting the painting I've been working on rest a bit and starting something new.
work in progress, my second oil painting this century, underpainting
A feufollet, clothed in the remnants of forgotten worlds, walks through a forest that took an ancient refinery, and sings to a bird on her finger.
#wip #OilPainting #trees #Feufollet #refineries #storytelling #art #bird
This is the most recent photo but the painting has progressed since it was taken. My son's camera is weird so I had to adjust the color and still didn't get it quite right, but this is close enough I guess. Can't wait to get my phone fixed.
Anyway, the painting looks a lot different now but I liked it at this stage because I figured out where it was going.
#wip #OilPainting #trees #Feufollet #refineries #storytelling #art #bird
Still have some detail work to do, but this has been fun. Looking forward to painting a new one!
a forest spirit in the guise of a small child with horns and flowing gown, standing in an opening of a tree, singing to a bird on her finger. Behind the trees are the remains of a factory.
#wip #OilPainting #trees #Feufollet #refineries #storytelling #art #bird
added bluebonnets.
One day I'll shake down tourists for all their money by painting bluebonnets on things.
Ooooh, la la!
Having to really stare at it to follow the forms really draws you in and then when you find them, you're kind of stuck there in the dream.
I am now following this with great interest.
@dogfox Thank you so much!
The photo is upsetting me! The color in the photo is so washed out compared to the painting, and I think it might be the glare from the paint. I used two borrowed phone cameras, and I can't get it to look right.
My favorite professor ever was my digital photo teacher and I still don't like it.
It's trying to make the image average out to middle gray: which includes adjusting the colors so something (looks like her dress) is white/neutral.
I'm not saying this will work, but I wonder if you can fake it out by putting something neutral in the frame and having it balance on that. A white or grey card in the corner? What happens if you leave a border of white sheet or wall around it?
mayday
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