Tuesday 31 July 2012

Painting...


Firstly, I am the worst painter, anything I have ever painted never looks similiar and the colours I use thinking they are similiar once they dry the colours never are. I spent a lot of time on this first summer painting as I wanted it to show the same quality of structure and shape that the photograph does. Using the colours from the centre of the flower were quite similiar but on the bottom left hand corner of the painting the colours aren't similiar, I used too much deep red and created lines where there isn't any, I think this is lack of constantly looking at the photograph, something that needs improving on!!



Once printed off this picture I was painting from wad darker anyway but the painting ended up looking too light and the variety of greens used didn't vary enough, they all looked similiar even though I mixed them individually. The lines I made were too thick making them stand out far too much and the overall shape of the leaves looked blocked like they were individually out together, not that they were together. This is due because of the thickness of the brushes I used and the colours I used were blocked without any highlights or shading. Out of these 2 paintings this one could do with more improving but using smaller brushes that give off small/fine detail and add more shading and highlighting by looking closer at the image. I really need to examine what I am about to paint!!

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