[Warhead82]

Just thought i would make a thread to see my progression, and get help from all of you.

To start it out, my first life, painting, of some fruit and vegetables, "in progress"

Materials: Acrylic paint.
Board type: Doorskin

Here:



Looks kind of funny because, I had flash on my camera, cause without flash it looke dull and ugly.
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[Warhead82]

Here is the final piece:

Board type: DoorSkin
Materials: Acrylic Paint

Still Life, Fruits and vegetables:



I have a question say, if i have a warm forground, "the fruits and vegetables, Should the background "table" be cold?
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When you look at a blank canvas or drawing paper, it stares you in the eyes and thinks it can beat you.~ Justin Beckett

[thekirill]

good work with the acrylics, i think the compositing in interesting, but it's lacking good lighting. I can see the colors, but there is a very little damnation. It would be nice to see some interesting value variation. Keep up the good work!!!

[Warhead82]

Thanks man, but do you mean, like add brighter highlights?
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When you look at a blank canvas or drawing paper, it stares you in the eyes and thinks it can beat you.~ Justin Beckett

[thekirill]

i'm not very good at this, there are many people here that can give you a better idea on what to work on, but i haven't seen them post...

[Warhead82]

woaaahh, ok i think i have a idea of what you mean.

loooks so much better lol, just by fixing all the little mistakes.
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[aphelionart]

best practice for values = start with a middle grey background, then try to divide the picture with ~4 key values. then add different levels of grey (there should be very very little white/black, in fact you probably won't even use it) to pull in and punch out forms. try to maintain the original values, while thinking about how certain values can appear darker/lighter juxtaposed by other slightly different values. you really don't need a lot of contrast in value, just as long as they all relate proportionately to eachother just as u see in real life (this is darker than this, this lighter than that..). once you've got this down you can glaze color over.. um.. with acrylic, you can use some gel medium i believe.. or try using more opaque colors that have the same value as those in the painting for more practice!

ah, sorry... maybe too much info. just remember when you pick a color, you're also picking a value. and the value, not the color, tells us what these forms are.

-matt

[Warhead82]

So basically treat colours like tones?

Like if i was sketching with a pencil, i would look at different tones, as a light grey shade, to a dark grey, and then with colour. A light red to a dark red kind of thing?
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When you look at a blank canvas or drawing paper, it stares you in the eyes and thinks it can beat you.~ Justin Beckett

[aphelionart]

right... colors, though emotionally powerful, don't play a big role in simple form definition... a lot of oil painters will actually paint an underpainting that consists of one tone to define the shadows, and they'll glaze over with color. you can learn a lot using that method or by mixing your tones directly into the colors you paint..

so light red to dark red ..well, let's not forget not only does most light shift from warm to cool in the shadows or vice versa, but also that the red tomato will probably be reflecting a bit of that green cucumber and the dark red/yellow apple next to it.. look for these things, because you can't really paint any object in a painting without observing the effects of objects and light around it ... so you have transitions between color (not only hue but saturation as well) and tones, and these transitions can cross. this can all get complicated fast but gets easier with practice, and your eyes learn to see finer details.. just try and think about what you're seeing and why, then incoporate it into the painting.

hope that's not too long..

-matt

[Warhead82]

thanks man.

A few more:

Just some weird dude...

Painter 8

Speed painting, just having fun and playing.

No ref.



River Scene -- Old.



River Scene Edit:



Just a ref photo, of a broken down building. Practise:



And more and more and more and more to come.

Peace.
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When you look at a blank canvas or drawing paper, it stares you in the eyes and thinks it can beat you.~ Justin Beckett