Thursday, April 26, 2012

I painted.

Yesterday I took my first crack at painting with oils. I painted a total of 3 pictures and I have to say by the 2nd one, I thought I was pretty good. The first time I tried to paint a Starbucks coffee cup and I couldn't figure out shadows, or how to blend. I quickly realized that I didn't have to really blend with the paint, it's supposed to be thick and layered. I overthought the whole thing. Once I saw what I was doing wrong, I had no problem starting over. And it worked. My 3rd picture was of 2 cups: one red, one blue. I thought that they looked very realistic. And other people did, too, which is always nice. I still haven't figured out what exactly I'm going to paint for my final, but I think I'm going to need a bit more practice before I start anything serious. Let's do this.
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  1. Luke DeLalioApril 27, 2012 at 6:42 AM

    Yes! Let's do this!

    I found this website very useful and I did a lot of the exercises on it.

    http://www.guidetooilpainting.com/


    This is the guy from New Zealand whom I showed you - in case you lost the link. Sign up for the newsletter and get free lessons every day practically! I even bought one of his online courses and it was excellent.

    http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/

    THis is the site of a friend of mine - always an inspiration...

    http://marlenewhite.com/Home.html

    Lastly, this guy does a painting a day and he's a monster.

    http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com/

    Hope this helps. We'll paint today!

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