[Basement bound]

Here is a painting that I am working on for my portfolio. Also followed by some old paintings of mine that will be in my portfolio.

The refrence




[ April 09, 2002: Message edited by: Basement bound ]

[shahar2k]

these are nice and demonstrate a strong understanding of color schemes (in the first one though it looks like you went all over the place, with prominent blue/orange green/red purple/yellow which might be a bit too much for colors, the second one has good dramatic opposite scheme, and the last a much cooler use of a similar scheme.
now what I would reccomend you look out for is your composition, in the first two paintings you seem to be positioning your objects in a very centered manner, everything in one place, with flat planes, or low detail objects in the background, the lowest one has a slightly more interesting composition, with the negative space being more divided, but still seems to be lacking somewhere...

oh, and I just actually read your image that the top is your newest one... hmm, well, try to controll the colors of the objects you place more, and look at your objects in terms of the space they occupy, you have 3 compact cylinders (I consider the doll a cylinder like object) a cone (the light) and a more arbitrary block construction for the wood parts now I would really reccomend adding in next time some objects which have either a more elongated shape, or somehow partition the negative/positive balance of the image instead of negative on the outside positive on the inside (the cloth seems like part of the background especially since it's so close in value to the white.

anyways my 2 cents

[Basement bound]

Shahar2lk- Now that you mention it I didn't really think too hard on the objects that I had choosen. That I guess would have been my first mistake. My second mistake would be the zoomed out position of the composition. Funny how these things become so evident once you take a step back. Now I know that the image is of poor quality it is just that I feel that I produced something with better quality when it came to painting(value/hue/detail) compared to paintings in the past. Personally I could use the confidence booster, I question weather I will get into art school or not.

JA

[Basement bound]

Bumpady bump bump! I really would like more crits on this.

JA