life drawing in gouache from today <3

swear there was a kid flying a kite when i started painting.

oh wow, i really haven't been active for a while

ANYWAY, ART DUMP! Part one cause Tumblr doesn't let me post more pictures for some reason

The griffins and that very weird face are painted and drawn from life ᕙ⁠(⁠ ⁠ ⁠•⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠•⁠ ⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕗ

I'll reblog part 2 when Tumblr will finally let me post the pictures...

inner growth

24 in. x 24 in.

not for sale

Movement - Painting Workshop

This week I attended the live painting workshop facilitated by Sylvia, the workshop began by mixing a large amount of red, yellow, and blue acrylic paint for a dark shade, then took that shade and added white to create a medium shade, and then repeated it once again to create a light shade.

We then began to paint the live model, Jeff, for about an hour and a half by blocking out the shapes and using all three shades for the background as well as the figure. Afterward, we all planned out how to lay out our work to have it hung up in the hallway which I found to be a useful exercise as it had us work as a group and also decide how different colours should be laid out to become more cohesive.

I look forward to continuing the movement project and relating it back to what I learned in todays workshop.

It was a great surprise to me how all we all achieved different work, although our instruction was the same. Our own individual style came through in each and every painting, even the tones we accomplish was so varied with the mix of 3 colours . We all painted our model from a different angle.

dévoiler la perfection. 🟦🟧🟥🎨

how did you start life painting? im kind of learning trial by error here but your highlighting & proportions are so good, if you have any tips to share they would be greatly appreciated, have a grsat day!!

aw thank you anon :D Honestly drawing from life is something I always struggled with. There are lots of things you can do to help yourself along in the beginning. Mentality is important. it WILL be confusing and hard in the beginning. you're gonna make paintings you don't like. That's normal. Try to focus on one small aspect of improvement from painting to painting. Such as brush control, highlights, overall values, etc. You HAVE to find some measuring stick, no matter how small, of improvement from painting to painting. Even if it's just "Paintings made: +1". Doing this will keep your morale and motivation strong. Also you're gonna have to make a lot of them...I've probably made 150 of this mini acrylic paintings I've been posting. The only thing that'll really slingshot you forward is doing it a lot. I would really recommend painting with black and white paint only at first. That way, you don't have to worry about balancing color. You can focus on just getting your lights/darks and shapes correct. The most important thing in painting is the lights and darks, or "values" (which is the proper technical term). Next is huge: make some color strings before you start. Mix up some little piles on your palette, give yourself pure white, pure black, then a grey 20%, grey 50%, and grey 70%. The percentage here refers to the amount of black mixed in with white. so 20%, meaning 20% of the mixture is black, would result in a light grey mixture. Try to stick to these at first and not mix more. you're looking for shapes, and how they interlock with each other. Here's a little mock up of what I'm talking about. I made "strings" and then created the image on the right using only the shades in the paint swatches in the middle.

Keep it simple at first! Feel free to ask more questions, and I also do private tutoring for anyone that's interested :) and for fun, here's the painting I did based on this still life. The original mask was made by the incomparable missmonster.

some oil paintings from a portrait class I took recently

did a painting of my fav pic of @catboyaoi for our anniversary 😊

David and Goliath. 2019. Gouache on mixed media pad.

study of my eye. oil on gessoboard. 15x15cm (6x6 inches). 2023

Life Painting Study

PAINTING

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On the first day of the painting elective, I chose to do life painting with Sylvia.

In this painting exercise, we learned a lot about tone and contrast...

We used only large and stiff brushes to create this painting, as it made us focus on shape and show rather then trying to make the model look overly detailed, which is not the point of the exercise. We mixed a base colour (mixed yellow, blue and red) and then mixed that base colour again with different amounts of white to get a dark, medium and light tone.

We originally began by drawing a very quick and loose thumbnail sketches on the paper before we began painting. I began the painting by adding the walls before adding in a very rough shape for the model himself.

After we finished our paintings and let them dry over the break, we came back up to the room for a crit and to arrange and learn how to present our work.

^all our work laid out on the floor before we hung it up.^

national gallery of art

Week 1- Life Painting

(11/3/24)

We started off this new project with a life painting session. Flipping the page format to landscape and paying more attention to lighting and shadows.

This was a brilliant familiar warm up to painting and I could already see improvement from my last life painting with the proportions and colour mixing. I love working with a big brush as it forces me to adapt and work differently to capture the forms.