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...

At the end, with another begining: Oct 8

Well the limes and pineapples are done and out of my hair!! hahahah ha ha. :) Such a great feeling, but now on to some more adventures. We started dabbling in the art of textures and all that they bring. I Can't wait to see what my project shall look like once its done.

Here are the textures, I forgot to take a picture of it without all the tape on it but that's okay and can be done another day. So for this texture assignment I used organic stuff as my dominate texture, I had so much fun with it too. I first painted the leaf or flower and then stuck them on the paper and let them dry for a little bit, then I went back in and painted over them with a wash or two. :) I really loved the textures that they created and had to keep doing it.
I also used salt, plastic bags, blowing bubbles, hand sanitizer, splashing water, and Hydrochloric acid, but it didn't do anything, so I gave up with it. LOVED this one.


Here is the value drawing and stencil of my texture painting soon to be. I hope I can find a way to get it on the paper and start painting and have the textures added to it, it shall be fun, hopefully.
LOVELY.there is more to come soon!

THE LIMES are Finshed!!

Finishing Pineapples and Limes: wonderful day

Here is the progression of my painting the pineapples. The top left one is bothering me so I need to fix that, it's too, something, I don't know yet, but it needs to be toned to the right colors of the color scheme I have got going here. But my first Pineapple I was super afraid of how it was going to look, but as you see in the first picture it isn't too bad. I was very proud of myself. And for other art going on I have also posted here a few pictures of what I have of my three of washes; a flat wash, graded, and a mixed.

Here is my plan for the washes that I will be doing. Hopefully it will be ready for when I go to class. If not, then hopefully Sister Ellis will be nice to me. I really loved these three colors and how they worked together. It made me happy. I liked doing it on a smaller scale too, it was a little easier, but going bigger will help me with experience and going places with watercolor. I am so excited about this class.

Here is the real deal. So now to finish it all off and make it become what I want it to. Finished pictures to come soon.