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That's good, cartoony stuff. Have you thought about a comic or taking up animation or something? I could see that style lending itself well to that sort of thing.
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 I made a painting. It's been like 2 years at least since I used oils. They're super fun to work with though, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. This was about 10 hours of painting. Unfortunately it's really hard to capture how vibrant it is in real life.
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dog nougat posted:
That's sick. I dig it.
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Thanks! I was determined to get the main composition finished in one day. Still wanna add either text or a background. It's my first new piece for a group show coming up in a less than 2 weeks. Thank goodness for liquin, otherwise there's no way it'd be remotely dry by then. It should be dry enough to handle by the 26th. Anything else I do to this piece will be in acrylics though. I really need to learn to work on my art more consistently, so I have a solid and cohesive body of work to submit in the future. I registered for the show less than 2 months before it started, so time was tight to begin with. I live in NOLA, so nothing was accomplished Mardi Gras week either. Fortunately I have a roadmap of sorts for the other pieces I'll submit, still gonna be a lot of late nights and long days. Plus I have pieces I can recycle/repair/finish to flesh out the 8 pieces I said I'd have. Moving forward though, my goal is to do at least 1 complete painting per month. I owe it to myself to do it. The sense of accomplishment and joy I got from making this piece was awesome and I really want to keep that feeling going.
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I wouldn't add anything to it. It's fine the way it is. Text would probably take away from it, honestly.
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Been trying to do more framed artwork, the painting inside was an old canvas that had been sat around for ages, I liked the back of the canvas more than the front, used a Stanley knife to cut it out and then stuck to a board to be framed.
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Feb 19, 2016 16:42
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Been trying to do more framed artwork, the painting inside was an old canvas that had been sat around for ages, I liked the back of the canvas more than the front, used a Stanley knife to cut it out and then stuck to a board to be framed. Do you have a better pic? It looks really good from afar, but the blurriness kind of ruins any textures. No pressure though if you don't.
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Nude posted:Do you have a better pic? It looks really good from afar, but the blurriness kind of ruins any textures. Slightly clearer, taken just this moment.
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Feb 19, 2016 22:56
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^^^Really digging what textures I can see, is that an oil painting? My room has poo poo lighting but I started attending an atelier, just finished up my first bargue plate. 
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ghost crow posted:^^^Really digging what textures I can see, is that an oil painting? The painting was done by mixing printer inks like I always do, but i liked how they look from the back cause they were blurrier, so what you're looking at is the back of the canvas.
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ghost crow posted:My room has poo poo lighting but I started attending an atelier, just finished up my first bargue plate.
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I've been in a rut lately where I feel like I paint something very rough and in progress that I'm optimistic about in a few hours/days, then spend weeks redoing parts of it and trying to add details, working slower and slower until I get fed up and abandon it or stop painting entirely for a while. Most frustrating of all, I feel like it often ends up worse than it was at the in-progress step.This particularly happens when I'm not working directly from a reference where I can at least see if features are in the right place, shadows missing, etc. I'm sort of vaguely aware that literally every painter in history feels this way to some degree, but I've never had an instructor or artistic friend to get feedback from and I thought it would help to get some in-progress perspective, before I totally ruin another one. Does anyone have any general tips on this? What areas totally suck, what needs to be fleshed out more, what should be left alone/replaced entirely? http://imgur.com/GtM1oV0 Edit - I'm so sorry I forgot to reply to this. neonnoodle posted:It looks like Nielly works in oils, which are going to have a higher pigment density than acrylics. Pigment density is the absolute determinant of color intensity when you control for all other factors. However, I don't think it's impossible to achieve that kind of striking color with acrylics. I was certain Nielly was acrylics for some reason. Thank you for the value demonstration- I think I was too focused on the colors themselves, and the B&W image does make it way clearer what's going on. Avasculous fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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Feb 20, 2016 20:01
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Painted a few things over the past few weeks:  
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neonnoodle posted:NICE. Which atelier are you going to? Is it ARC APPROVED(R)???? It's Sadie Valeri's atelier in San Francisco. Picked it because she has very reasonable rates for part time study. It is ARC approved for whatever that's worth.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:The painting was done by mixing printer inks like I always do, but i liked how they look from the back cause they were blurrier, so what you're looking at is the back of the canvas. Cool texture. Are you talking about inks from an inkjet printer (as opposed to screen printing ink) because I've been interested in trying this actually. Do printer inks behave roughly like oil paints? I imagine printer ink might be a bit more pigment rich so it'd need to be diluted more. Unrelated: I posted these paintings I did recently in a chat thread but maybe they belong here more. This one is acrylic on posterboard and jigsaw puzzle pieces  This one is acrylic with a tiny bit of aerosol 
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Cool texture. Are you talking about inks from an inkjet printer (as opposed to screen printing ink) because I've been interested in trying this actually. Do printer inks behave roughly like oil paints? I imagine printer ink might be a bit more pigment rich so it'd need to be diluted more. Yeah inkjet printer, you can get a pack of yellow blue and red or a pack of black, you also get little plastic syringes which are great for spurting ink everywhere. I'd recommend getting a canvas and throwing some ink about,it's fun (wear scruffy clothes).
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Proper inks, powder and emulsion,managed to sell this one.
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Feb 22, 2016 15:45
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Study from this morning. 
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Feb 22, 2016 18:14
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First ever attempt to paint anything. "Yin and Yang" oil on canvas. Let me have it. :/
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pr0k posted:First ever attempt to paint anything. "Yin and Yang" oil on canvas. Nothing about these really says yin/yang to me except maybe red and green being complimentary colors, but there's so little green in the left painting it's a tenuous relationship at best. Titles are incredibly important in defining a piece and how it'll be interpreted. Technique. Clean your brushes. Your red is super muddy looking, granted the picture quality is kinda bad. But it looks like you painted the red with blue still on your brush, making it look sloppy. Overall both pieces feel impulsive and not really planned out in any real way. Having a general plan of what you want to accomplish is super important. You may not always reach the vision you have, but you'll encounter happy and not so happy mistakes along the way. It'll really help you to grow as an artist if you have some concept of where things went wrong or didn't.
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Thanks! Considering my original plan was to paint waves crashing on a beach, that's not too bad of a critique. Turns out painting is a lot harder than it looks. Should I try to go over it with a cleaner brush? You are right, I really had no vision at all and made some random marks and then forced them to be something. And yes, the picture is awful. The green on the left is yellow/gold, with a spot of red. The idea was that the left is the male force and the right is the female force, since the plan was to hang it over the bed. I was also thinking of putting an orange streak across both instead of the white, with red and white highlights in the middle somehow...?
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pr0k posted:First ever attempt to paint anything. "Yin and Yang" oil on canvas. I'll leave technique issues to those that know about it, but the composition is kind of a mess. That strong horizontal line isn't really doing anything other than making it look like the canvas ends there. The branches, meanwhile, don't really do anything; having them merge or end near that horizontal line enforces that sense of the canvas ending, there's not much in the way of interesting forms, and there's no balance to speak of on the left piece. The one on the right is closest to doing something interesting, but the only vibe I'm getting from it is "pouring out a can of coke".
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pr0k posted:Thanks! Honestly, no. I wouldn't go back and try to touch it up/fix it. It's incredibly difficult to do that and only with lots of experience is it possible. I'd chalk it up to a learning experience. What I'd do if the paint's still wet, and it probably is. Take a rag with your turpentine or whatever thinner you're using and wipe the canvas down completely and start again. Painting is super difficult and takes a lot of time to learn. You probably won't make anything "good" for a while, but will learn a lot in the process. If you really do want to learn how to paint, start with still life stuff and slowly move on to the more imaginative stuff later. Life painting is relatively easy comparatively since all the colors are there in front of you and not in your head and fugitive. It'll still take at least 20+ paintings until you'll start having a concept of what you're doing. Watch some tutorial videos for oils as well, there's a huge variety of mediums out there for oils.
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I painted a thing. Skydiving hotdog. 3'x3' acrylic on canvas. 
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dog nougat posted:I painted a thing. How do you have such nice lines? 
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Years of practice. I used a Montana refillable paint marker with golden hi-flow acrylics. It kinda feels like cheating, but it'd take forever for me to do those lines with a brush.
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Bonus detail shot of the face.
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A marker!?! Cheater!!! I use a 10/0 detail brush for my lines and dear god is it bitch to do large amounts of line work.
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Yeah that's why I used a marker. Time constraints dictated that I go that route. I have a group show coming up Friday, so it's mega crunch time... Not gonna be getting much sleep. I far prefer using a brush, but on a piece this large I wasn't about to do that to myself with such a tight deadline. I have 3-4 pieces left to finish by Friday, so any shortcut I can take is the only way I'll accomplish this... If I didn't have a job to go to I'd be fine, but I like having a house to live in and eating food.
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Quick question thread: In your experience(s), what are the qualities of wood panels that make it preferable to some artists as opposed to canvas? I've been considering switching over mostly because of how time consuming canvasing can be.
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It already super smooth so it doesn't have to be primed like crazy to eliminate texture. Also the panel's are less susceptible to expansion and shrinking like a canvas is. The panel won't suddenly get all slack, but it can warp and crack. You can use things like gouache on a panel whereas a canvas is too flexible and the paint will crack and flake. Panels are what a lot of the "old masters" painted on, until somewhere around the early 17th century if I recall correctly. Panels can get really heavy, esp compared to a canvas once the sizes get up there. Edit: I'd still sand the gesso on a panel before painting though. That rough texture will tear your brushes to shreds.
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Double post. Finished another piece. "Eat poo poo". 18" x 24". Acrylic on canvas  The stupid camera on my phone can't capture how vibrant this piece is.
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dog nougat posted:Double post. If that blue's what I think it is it's a fantastic color
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It's more green in real life. It's a mixture of pthalo blue (green) with some hansa yellow and titanium white to give you an idea of the tone. It's a beautiful teal color.
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I hate acrylics. Unfortunately no place near me sells golden open mediums, so trying to do a giant gradient using retarder was a colossal exercise in frustration and defeat. I'm convinced that the canvas in question is cursed. It's now had 3 incomplete paintings on it. In the meantime I framed this piece.  I was going to paint it... Still might. Not 100% sure, I have to decide on what to put on the final canvas. Just one 12x16 painting and some lettering left. Don't procrastinate kids. Fake edit: anyone tried the liquitex blending medium? While researching how to potentially fix or even actually paint a gradient I came across a video about it. It looks like it could work for my purposes of increasing the open time of acrylics slightly.
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dog nougat posted:It's more green in real life. It's a mixture of pthalo blue (green) with some hansa yellow and titanium white to give you an idea of the tone. It's a beautiful teal color. Haha, yeah I guessed wrong. Liquitex has a bottle blue that looks just about like that in the picture and it's probably my favorite color ever (and I don't even really paint).
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You should. Painting is an incredibly rewarding experience. I'm all about mixing colors though to create colors that you can't get out of a tube. I find it helps to make a more dynamic and interesting piece overall. Plus color mixing is fun.
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A couple of characters from my head. ... and some random portraits of real people.  One last one from a few hours ago.  dog nougat posted:I hate acrylics. Unfortunately no place near me sells golden open mediums, so trying to do a giant gradient using retarder was a colossal exercise in frustration and defeat. I'm convinced that the canvas in question is cursed. It's now had 3 incomplete paintings on it. Use Floetrol. It is cheap, comes in a large quantity and relatively easy to find (home depot). sigma 6 fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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sigma 6 posted:Use Floetrol. It is cheap, comes in a large quantity and relatively easy to find (home depot). Just looked it up. While it seems interesting, it's formulated more for house paint than a heavy body acrylic. I've been having good results on a smaller piece with retarder, gloss medium, and flow release. Progress shot, got the hard bits finished. Just a few more hours and this one will be complete.  Once again, this piece is super vibrant and my stupid phone can't capture it, that blue color in the wings is basically the same color as my cheeseburger painting.
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Finished my butterfly pig. All the paintings for my show on Friday are complete.  It took me a while, but I feel pretty comfortable with acrylics now. 
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