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mza · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 9:16 pm

Hi, some of you might have seen the Photoshop color study. Thought you'd might like to see how the final painting is coming along.
Sorry for the bad reproduction...can't figure out this digital camera yet.
36x36" oil on canvas:

Here's the color study:

[ February 04, 2002: Message edited by: mza ]

vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 9:58 pm

hey that looks great i really like the old fashioned hazy mood to it. only one gripe and its about his hands. they appear as if they have no fingers but it looks great overall

the_monkey · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 10:20 pm

wow, it looks amazing. no crits here.

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

Are you the Pinnochio guy? Hehe your paintings all look the same - GOOD.
The colors look very 'tasty'

mza · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 10:48 am

YEs! The hands suck, I'm really bad at hands & was hoping I could just indicate them. The legs(or lack of them) are bugging me too. It's always the "finishing" part of a painting I dread. Any help would be appreciated.

Lunatique · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 6:39 pm

The Pinnochio guy is jr, not mza.

Good job, BTW. It would be interesting to have a finished digital version too to compare to the oil version?

jr · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 7:40 pm

lol, yeah pinnochio guy was me.... this painting looks pretty damn cool molly, i have the same problem you have with "finishing" a painting, i never really know when to stop, most of the time i just get so carried away with little details and stuff and i render the life out of it. good luck with this painting.

mza · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 7:43 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Lunatique:
Good job, BTW. It would be interesting to have a finished digital version too to compare to the oil version?

I'm so sick of this painting already, someone would have to force me at gun point to do a finish digital version too!

hehe, the concept behind this painting was sorta an expirement to see if using today's technology to create art would help in traditional means of working...
Classical painters had the luxury of having models pose for them for as long as they needed. Most painters today don't have that luxury.Instead,the alternative is to paint from photo which always ends up looking like a painting painted from photo.

So, I thought that maybe having the luxury of photoshop used as a part of the process could be the solution... I tried hard to use only the digital image as reference and only the photo for important details.

Would I try this again? Probably not.

traveller · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2002 9:35 am

hi. Your picture is lovely. I'm glad you included the colour study. The face looks very very good. I see that you've really spent time working out the subtler tones though watch the shiny white forehead. Something that has helped me work out the backgrounds in these late 19th century-styled paintings is to block in the entire background first in a dark brown. The green that you pick in Photoshop will mix nicely with the 'underpainting'or if that doesn't work for you, lightly brush on a burnt sienna colour on top of the green with decreased opacity. Photoshop can be a real 'pain' sometimes because it depends so much on layering / combination of guache (sp?)airbrush technique.

I can't wait until this is done! Splendid job!