André’s 100 Day Challenge: speeding up!

[André Girão Tauffer]

Thanks Shazad and Peihong, you’re to kind

[André Girão Tauffer]

Day 8

Golden hour. Exercising from home

 

[Joshua Jacobo]

Wow, this is awesome, Andre!

[André Girão Tauffer]

Thanks Joshua! I loved this one too, finally happy with my clouds

[André Girão Tauffer]

Day 9

quick study at home

[André Girão Tauffer]

Day 10

Forgot to post yesterday. Added a new layer to an old sketch just to take a break fron the course and refresh the mind. Good Times

[Shazad Madon]

Very interesting. There definitely seems to be a certain style to your paintings.

[André Girão Tauffer]

Day 11

Couldn’t get much time today, so I decided on doing some quick composition studies based on some reference photos

[André Girão Tauffer]

Day 12

Experimenting with a foreground shadow composition

 

[Cora]

Hey, I saw this in recent uploads and it right away caught my eye. I think the colours work really well. The composition too. i would like some more light and shadow. Maybe just the trees and clouds a bit lighter. i think it’s gonna be really good alrady when you fill in the rest of the trees. I like the character of the main cow, but I struggle a bit with the anatomy, it seems to me like it’s tipping to it’s left side.

Cheers

[Birgith Schei]

I really like your landscape paintings

[André Girão Tauffer]

Thanks a lot for the ideas Sara! I agree it could definitely use more light in the clouds and tree in the foreground. Regarding filling up the rest of the trees, I don’t think I’ll actually do that, bit I wonder what you meant. The plan was to just represent a bit of trunk since they’re leafless right now in the beginning of spring. But maybe I should signal better their masses? It was really hard for me to decide on whay to do with them since the colors and values were so close between the branches and the background flat plan. I like the cow a bit, I think there’s maybe to much contrast in it. I guess I see what you mean regarding anatomy, but I’ll save this regard to next experiences. Thanks again for taking the time to critique, it was really helpful!

[André Girão Tauffer]

Thanks Shazad and Birgit for the incentive!

[André Girão Tauffer]

Day 13

Experimenting with a cloud foreground shadow this time. I guess it could be darkened down a bit.

Also I liked how the path had a definitively strong influence in putting this scene together. Base on a reference photo fron nma

[Debbie H]

Hi André,
I feel that your paintings are gaining greater texture and depth as you’re moving through this challenge. This one (Day 13) really draws me in, both towards the mountain and also in between the hills. Love the colour scheme. Great work!

Deborah

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