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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…
They told me studying some Brague drawing would help my paintings to become even more realistic. Do you agree that it has made a difference?
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…
Today was mostly spent visiting my rehab specialist to check out my knee which has begun to give me bits of non-cooperation. He suggested that I would likely be a candidate for knee replacement. Oh, no! He also indicated that taking care of it sooner rather than later is likely a really good idea. Since…
As you can see these greens are very muted and already feel more real. I picked a few leaves from a rhododendron. The lowest value/chroma greens match very nicely. I suspect I’ll use greens from this chart routinely on floral and landscape paintings.
Last year I did some charts of green from my new WSO oils. This gave me a decent starting point. But like all those beginners, the chroma is uniformly too high. So I’m now turning to Munsell to see if I can mix some more realistic greens. That is, greens that actually appear in nature!
My 5Y chart I feel like I’m making some progress with these charts. This 5Y chart seems to have caused me quite a bit less grief. I began today with making quantities of the Munsell neutral grays. I had gotten six containers to keep the paint piles in once they were mixed. I’ll see over…
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