Finished tree. This one is not so ho hum, I like the blue and yellow, the shadow on the building. Kind of a wonky composition tho…But I like the saturation of color here — that’s what I feel I’m not achieving in above paintings. I guess I just have to go in with more paint in the beginning. I don’t have the patience for painting a million
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It’s a baby! She’s 8 months old and I haven’t painted her once! And she’s so cute!
First off, it's about time you painted Claire! She's got such a great smile. I love the vibrant tree colors in the middle painting. Those rich, saturated colors are the very essence of autumn paintings and you haven't wimped out. You really have the crisp, bright feel of that light in autumn. There are things I like about each of the top two, but you're right—the second one doesn't have the same sense of sunlight flooding in. I think the greens veer more towards blue and in the first one, they're more yellow. There's something eerily ghostly about the glass in the second one. And I think you have the sense of the ivy wall, especially in the first one.
ReplyDeleteClear glass is hard to do but you’ve done well. Maybe some more splashes of dark. Also you’ve got a descent splash of sunlight on the table top. I think that you have more darker values in the ivy on the first pass that gives it depth.
ReplyDeleteLike the tree in front of the shadowed building.I think you should break up the longer branches in the trees so they look like they’re interwoven through the trees instead of on the outside.
Babies are hard. Good start.
In the second one the view out the window looks like it is a painting. The first one has a lot more depth because of the strong greens and yellows, but maybe it could have more hard edges, swirly hard edges. But then what doesn't look better with more swirly hard edges?
ReplyDeleteThe yellow tree has pleasing jagged edges in the sky but loses them in that hohum green tree. Why not get rid of both those other trees. intriguing yellow-purple shadows on that building.
She is adorable!
ReplyDeleteSecond one good shadows and colors. Variation of greens usually will mimic ivy. Maybe add some dabs of perylene green here and there.
I don’t know how u did that glass!
She is adorable!
ReplyDeleteSecond one good shadows and colors. Variation of greens usually will mimic ivy. Maybe add some dabs of perylene green here and there.
I don’t know how u did that glass!