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I am an impatient painter. I want to do mine alla prima (all at once). I am learning that sometimes that is good, and sometimes it is not. Now I am about to make corrections to a paintingI did earlier and just am not happy with. So here goes. Out of the Darkness This is…
Realism and Color Once I began to feel a bit of confidence it was time to move on to really study with someone who knows the process of making fine realistic still life paintings. Paul Foxton is just such a person. He’s also a wonderfully helpful teacher. He has a number of classes available. Joining…
Know where you’re going at the beginning of the painting My favorite artist, David A. Leffel expressed this as the idea of “Concept”. Is your painting about Light, chiaroscuro. Understand the interplay of dark/light. Is your painting about Movement. Understand placement of the still life objects in your setup. Understand how light moves through the…
Fresh flowers are one of the great joys of life at the retirement center where I live. Painting them is a joy for me, too! Years ago a former resident left an endowment sufficient to allow for weekly visits to a local wholesaler to pick up fresh flowers. Resident members of the Flower Committee then…
Congratulations to the winning bidder! It was suggested that I spend the last month or so just drawing. It wasn’t clear to me that I really needed to study drawing, however I do think it’s been helpful. I was happy to be ready to offer one of my small oil paintings for sale. Now White…
I’m back to painting now that I’ve done several Bargue drawing studies. Let me know if you can see any change. This is with adding a single glaze layer of olive green and alizarin. To get more depth of color I may add more layers later. The Old Masters used this technique. It takes quite…
I’m feeling so done with drawing for the time being. Besides the weather has turned summer dreadful (first heat wave of the summer).
So now I’m beginning to do the Bargue book studies from the beginning. These are said to be the easiest and then progress ever more difficult. Oh, my! I’m not so sure. The proportions appear to be off. My drawings are surely not coming close to truly matching the originals. Hand 3 looks more like…
Ok between doing drawing it from a photo: first upside down, with straight lines and only shadows. It’s not as bad as I feared. Perhaps by the end of a year doing just Bargue drawings I’ll be able to just draw these from a photo. Perhaps later on I’ll go back to doing realistic still…
I’ve never been good at painting figures. So here’s my first shot at using Charles Bargue’s methods. Plumb lines, blocking in then a series of straight lines morphing to curves. After lots of erasing I’m rather amazed.
So I started doing more from the beginning of the book.
I was challenged by on of my co-artists. That’s all it took to get me back to searching and learning. She suggested that my paintings may be improved by looking into some classical drawing classes. She said she had worked on doing many of the illustrations from the Charles Bargue Drawing Course. Being self-taught and…
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