Hi everyone! I guess AW had a rough last week of Jan and first week of Feb. They can't get that top members list correct when it begins the new month. Hope you are doing more painting. I am too busy to even paint! Hope you are doing more painting. I am too busy too. This digital painting is me, a little odd, but if I could find the right photo to use with it it might work>
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If anyone would like a gentle critique of their work and some tip I would love to give you help!
Let's take one of my Poppy Paintings. Please make honest comments I can handle real critiques. If you have been following me, you know I never do a painting like this and I never owned black or used it in a painting until this one. Because black is not in nature, created by man, so dark's in nature are created by blues, browns, purples or red. Black is the essence of all colors where white is the absence of color. We are lucky in this age to have such convenient paint. The one acrylic paint I use right now is like butter, called M. Grahm. Highly recommend them. I created the poppy painting because when you enter my kitchen you see at the end of the room a sun room. On that wall stands this poppy painting and I love the reactions. Now on the left is the finished painting and on the right is what I did in the first 1-1.5 hours, painting all the black surrounding the flowers. I never do this either! I always work the whole painting, layer, by layer. With in 2 more days the paintings was done. I did not over paint it, I just wanted a reaction from a distance and I do get that.
Thought the below photo came out great!
This was not an easy painting to do. Although, it was fun doing the roofs and buildings. The bikes and people was the best part. Try something you never tried before, work slowly and carefully and you will be surprised how well you go!
Been to many holiday parties and given one! Two more weeks to go and the celebrations will begin to slow down. Hope you enjoy with friends and family because that is what life is all about! Below is a very challenging painting. snow for that matter is a challenge, for it not to be too blue, too white or too grey is not easy task. Snow can look as blue as the sky but there must be subtle changes. Rule of thumb is to place light or white next to a dark. If it is too blue, then lift off with water and wipe with a cloth! Make subtle changes in the sky, work the snow in the trees, and highlight areas of the snow where you think the sun would hit it. Try working from this one, I give you permission. The problem working a watercolor from a watercolor is that you will learn by how the artist painted and got there, but you will also miss a lot of learning skill from doing one on your own.
I would like to wish everyone here a wonderful holiday and a Happy new year no matter where you are.
I thought I would share this with you a real Giant Sea Turtle I took with no flash other than one in a sock! It is illeagel to take pictures with a flash in Melbourne Beach Florida, the 2nd biggest nesting area in the world! From April- June thousands of eggs are laid as close to the dunes as possible. You can walk the beach every morning and see the hundreds of turtle tracks coming from the water and going down. The town keeps track of them: Loggerheads which are the largest and you will see mostly these. Green turtles and Leatherbacks you will see also. Its a pretty female.
If you don't like flowers would you give this a try painters? HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Here are some some blossoms I have been wanting to paint. Why don't you painters try it and I promise I will do this after the holidays?
Sandra Brown 08 Nov 2021
I love this picture Ginger.Reply