Final Drawing Project

Are final drawing for this semester was based on a process, I chose to draw a candle burning, but with a twist at the end. 

The process had to include at least one hand in any part of the process. 

all and all I got an A- in the class :] and im pretty happy about that. 

recent stuff

This is something i've been messing with for a bit, since last fall. I started it when I was painting my shoes, but them forgot about it. But I found it and decided to repaint it and draw on a skull, I think i'm going to have water or something coming out of it, but im going to paint it fist in acrylic and then do detail in oil. I do plan on using this thing. Its a brush holder if you didn't know what it was.

Some of you may remember this painting, particularly the under painting of this. I started this painting in 2010 and its still not finished, not even close. Mostly because i've been fucking around with it for a while.

I got rid of the jelly fish that use to be on it, mostly because they didn't fit into my idea for this painting anymore.

I painted over it with a mixed ultramarine and brown to make a nice black, and while it was still wet I blended brown and red through it. The red really made the blue background push back so I wanted to add something that would be present in the foreground, at this moment they are just yellowish blobs. but they will be in highly rendered detail( hopefully) tree mushrooms. and after that is all done I'm going to add more dots and lines and stuff. hopefully this idea works out.

sorry for the shitty picture, I lost my camera and used my iPhone instead.

so far I'm just going to let it setup a bit before I decide what to do next. I've been working on this painting for almost 2 years now and its about time I finish it. its long over due thats for sure.

Here's a more detailed picture of it. you can see that I haven't added any detail yet, its getting there though.

New Painting in the works

I painted over one of the paintings that I just didn't like from my class last term, but i'm rather frustrated as to what I should paint on my bare canvas.. Im still working on sketches and what not, but just haven't found a solid idea for it.

class is going well, my drawing class is pretty awesome, and my drawings are getting better and better, especially rendering things more realistically so thats exciting :]

string doll still life, moving along nicely, it'll be done by monday :]

Finally Finished. Wall Still life. Time to start my next painting

It has more than 10 hours of work put into it, and i'd have to say I am pretty pleased with its final out come. I have critique on Wednesday. This still life doesn't have to be done for my personal crit, but I wanted it to be finished so I can work on my next painting.

Detail

For my final painting, I put down a ground of red acrylic paint and drew the string dolls in with a blend of darker reds. By adding a ground of colour, it enriches the colours that you lay on top of it. So, since the first doll on the far left is red, the reds that i'm using with appear to be more vibrant in colour.

Similar to my wall still life, the ground is more of an orange on this painting than a true red. My wall still life used a yellow ground to make the red pop more. When painting reds, its better to use a cadmium yellow than adding white to make it lighter. You want your painting to look red, not pink. By adding yellow it creates an orange that also appears in the fabric that was on the wall when light was shining onto it.

In this photo I finished adding the white/grey background.

This is kind of a bad photo, but oh well. As you can see, the red is more intense on the string doll, and all that is thanks to the red ground underneath.

almost done

Wall Still Life.. Still progressing. Should have it finished by tomorrow

There is still a lot to be done with this painting. However tomorrow I have to start another painting and have that finished before my painting class is over, and I haven't decided to do either a still like again, or a self portrait. I'll just have to see I guess.