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Finnegan · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2001 12:47 am

greetings from the noob. these are unfinished acrylic paintings I did in a still life class. Please forgive the scan lines! any input is greatly appreciated.

Thanx for yer time

FINN

worthless_meat_sack · member Member # Joined: 29 May 2000 Posts: 141

I think you need to have flatter areas and more textured areas.

The subject here is as much the paint use and the objects.

Try to simplify your shapes more.

robust · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2001 2:34 pm

Heter du lars ?

Iconoclast · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2001 11:32 pm

well I think they 're fabulous--I never could do much with acrylics, oil was my thing--the shine and the transparency you got is great--congratulations, you have three really good pieces here!

Finnegan · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2001 6:21 pm

worthless_meat_sack-

So are you saying that I need more corntrast in terms of complexity vs simplicity? If so, I couldn't agree more. I thank you for pointing that out. I guess I was just too tied up in the color...lol

Iconoclast-

Thank you for your very encouraging words!

robust-

no comprende

Thanks for your input guys! I really appreciate it!

FINN

feebsaint · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2001 9:01 pm

I'm not going to disgrace this thread by adding to worthless_meat_sack's post. I will say this... these are wonderful studies, and show a raw grasp of powerful color...

You hereby rock. Amen.

Finnegan · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2001 4:18 pm

shit Feeb, that really means alot to me comin from you. Thank you very much. Now I'll try my hand at digi-painting obi-wan. Oh yeah, that Sensate pic turned out amazingly!

Thanx for your words,
FINN

M_shady · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2001 8:14 pm

hey dude, nice work. it's not the best painting in the world, but i gott tell ya, it's fresh. fresh as in you direct painted it. didn't look as though you glazed over it with layers after layers. you seems to have a good grasp of the colors which allowed you to do that, like Feeb said. man i wish i got a better sense of color. I suck. can't do direct paint. may i ask how long did it take for each piece? and if i maybe ask how you keep your acrylic fresh and usable while you paint? i find that stuff dries too quickly both on the pallette and on the painting surface. i used to dump the paints in little plastic cups wiht a bit of water to maintain moisture, so i can take a little break and come back with the mixed paints still usable. i used acrylics for about two years in college, it smells way better than oils. felt like I could get high on it. shit i think my brain is fugged. the drying time of the medium is the only thing that bugs me the most. tell me what you do it. sorry, i talk to much. i am new here, so got alot of questions.

silber · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2001 3:37 am

I like them-really nice

Agree with comments above I just wanted to add that I don't like the composition much
it seems a bit boring -I'm missing this coincidenc feeling-(proper english?)

Cos · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2001 3:49 am

I really like em, the reflections are excellent!

Finnegan · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2001 12:17 am

Here's a ROUGH study in value and temperature...done in gouache, and unfinished. It's a thumbnail i did 4 the final painting (which I'm working on now). I put an orange gel over the light to get an exagerated warm light source. I wanted to study value/temp relationships under exagerated circumstances...and what better to test it on than a Rubix cube??

This was done in about 20 min (gouache is a pain in the ass, but i still love it)

ignore the orange & yellow splotch on the right...just wanted to test the paint's color

Thank you everyone for your critiques...I too think that those still life's are a bit boring, but I like the colors

FINN