Refraction via reflection

FINISHED!~!!

Done and more doner. I finally got this out of my hair. But it turned out quite splendidly. I am yet again proud of myself.

OH HAPPY DAY

Glazing has been done...FINISHED

Here are the fixed pictures of the Atmospheric glazes. I fixed the clouds some by adding more light and more blue to the tops of them, also I darkened the bottom and added a little more definition to the mountainous islands in the background. I like how the sky works now, it makes me a lot happier and looks a lot better.


Here is the start of the Direct Glazing. This was kinda scary for me and I believed that the painting was ugly until I got further into the colors. YES painting this 5-7 times was a little daunting and time consuming, but I believe that it was worth it for the way that I got it to turn out. I am happy with what I was able to achieve with this method of painting, even though it took a lot of time, I believe that I will use it in the future when I continue to paint more.
Adding Azo yellow to every and all spots that showed yellow or had warm spots
Next I mixed Azo Yellow and Quin Rose to get my transparent orange and applied it to the places I felt that there were oranges.
I then mixed Quin Rose with Cad red Lt, used Alizarin Red for the cooler spots with some yellow mixed in to get the effect I was
I used Cobalt blue to mix the green on paper, and add cools to the places that I wanted them to be.
Next I mixed cobalt blue with some Azo yellow to make my green. At this point I wanted to leave it this light in the background, but I decided it would be better if the background was darker. I mixed my transparent green with a little Phthalo green and a neutral to get the dark green.
This is a picture of the painting drying but this is what it looks like. I feel I did a pretty good job and got all out of it that I wanted.

First you glaze, then you do it some more...

This is the last little bit of touches that I did to this painting; added some more blue, more purples and blues to the snow, made the water shape bigger, and fixed under the tree line to break up the shapes a little more to help the eye travel more easy.


This is the start of a few glazes on top of three flat washes of Quin rose, Cobalt blue, and Azo yellow. Then I just started adding more blues, yellows, reds and purples, all mixed with the three primary colors. I tried to dabble in the skill of cloudage making, but it didn't work out too much until I added more blue behind where the clouds were, and that made it pop!
This is after some more glazes, and then I dabbled in attempting to make the clouds look like clouds. I started this piece very timidly, I didn't want to mess it up and I was scared it would not turn out the way that I wanted to. EEEK! Then I actually sucked it up and attempted the clouds which is this next picture beneath.
Here at this point, going through my mind, I was like, oh great the clouds suck! I don't like them, they don't even appear to look like clouds, what am I doing?! BUT I stepped away from the painting, got something to eat, stretched my legs.. then came back and attacked it with full heart, and after some removing the paint, and utilizing the magic eraser, and lifting technique... I accomplished what I was looking for. I still see some things that could be added, like making the water look more like water by adding some color variation and hue variation but that can come later. For now, this picture below, is my final product. And I like it a lot. :)

I am very proud of myself. :)
beauty! minus the lays chips underneath...hehehehe Hey, I got hungry. Great no?

Dark painting-ness

Here are the rest of the photos of my dark painting study...ish thing. HA I am going to tweak it a little more, maybe add some more blue to it or purples... we shall see what happens.
Cheers

To go dark or not? That is the important question of the Hour

First off, here is a picture of Sister Ellis's example of how to paint dark paintings. I know I will probably use it as a reference one day when I am in need of painting clouds at sunset/sunrise.

Here is my picture that I am using as a reference for my dark painting. I took this picture back last winter semester when I was in Art 117, and I just thought I could use it for more than one purpose now. Hopefully this will turn out the way that I want or would like it to go.
These here are my drawings from my sketch book for the values, and just the sketch of how I wanted it to look for composition; I think I am going to keep the general idea from the picture reference and use it in my painting. (I am really proud of myself and how the value drawing turned out. It made me happy, it looks really good from here. :) Hopefully I can put that into a painting.)
And this is what it looks like about halfway done. It took me a little while to make the neutral and with a lake of color so I wouldn't run out, but I got tired, so I went to bed and this is about what it looks like now. So here is to what the finished product may hopefully look like the original or what I perceive it will in my "artists'' mind.

FINISHED lilly and darks

I took my lilly home and tweaked it a little and this is what it now looks like after adding more white color pencil, soap, and grain imprints, and more color. After doing this it feels more complete to me and looks grand. I had fun with this and enjoyed every minuted of it.




I also worked on making dark pigments which is very hard and took me a long time to do. I think with more practice i will get it down.

TEXTURE time: Wonder lilly

Here are the newest pictures of my most recent painting. It took me about 5 ish hours to do it was lots of fun, I still wish I hadn't done that spot so yellow. You know what i am talking about...