Showing posts with label complementary colours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label complementary colours. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2022

The Buzzing Tree

 Walking the neighbourhoods near me is a regular thing now, with no gym membership. My daughter and I usually walk together and choose different destinations. For a change we went up to Beaconsfield, where there are curvy streets and cul-de-sacs. At one point we heard a strange and quite loud buzzing noise like machinery of some kind. Curious, we followed the sound to another street and a glorious old tree in full blossom. It was completely full of bees, furiously working on the nectar. So many bees, and so loud!

 I photographed the house across from the tree and later painted it. It has complimentary orange and pthalo in the sunlight with lots of planar shifts from one section to the next when viewed from behind. The lessons from my last entry about underpainting prompted a little experiment in colour and a more detailed underpaint. The bricks are under painted in light and dark blue while the sky is orange, with neutrals on the pavement and roofs. This is a cheap paper panel.










Saturday, January 18, 2020

Little drawing issues

I want to work on several mandarin paintings and I’m off to a good start. The little drawing and proportion difficulties are bugging me. I decided to trace and overlay from the photo to check my first painting.
Set Up



Mandarins, Source Photo
Source Photo









The first painting is by eye, using a grid.






Check out this video about procrastination and the benefits of reworking an idea or image.   https://youtu.be/M6NsEDwHHiE



Mandarins1
Sketch

Unfinished Mandarins2
 Unfinished Mandarins 2
There are changes to proportion, but my mistakes aren’t as glaring as I had supposed while doing the work.