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Hi everyone!
My goal is to work with oil paint for 100 days, doing still life. I begin with the painting tutorial from Beginning Oil Painting with Charles Hu in black and white.
Still life seems like it will give me enough flexibility and structured painting to keep me entertained.
I want to have a more consistent art practice. & I want to improve my values and ability to paint realistically.
All feedback is welcomed! Thank you NMA, without this platform I’d still be confused and unsure of how to improve. I’m grateful to be part of such an impressive community <3
Day 4- it feels really good to be taking this seriously and to be gaining momentum. It usually feels so difficult for me to draw or paint every single day even though I love it.. I usually think about doing it and somehow avoid it by doing other tasks.I’m also enjoying the consistent action everyday no matter how small.
Day 5- Please tell me your feedback regarding values/anything else. It feels like I may get stuck or that my brushstrokes are becoming unsure. I’ll work on the values of the vase similar to painting a sphere.. and the teeth 🙂
Hey Jessica… It’s nice to see some new painters in the challenge! I think this is a nice start.
I’m really liking the chalice, book, and fruit.
I think that the shadow edges in the vase could be softened and rounded more to imply a matte finish on the object in contrast to the shiny chalice (even if it’s metallic in real life).
You may want to restore some of the detail in the zygomatic region and the temporal region of the skull by exaggerating contrasts between overlapping elements.
The flower coming from the vase seems implied – which is interesting – but I think you could do more with it.
Perhaps most importantly, there is a distinct temperature difference between your warm underpainting and your cooler areas of accumulation… and there is a consequence to that condition… you may want to consider warming up your gray where it’s advantageous.
one other thing… surfaces that are curling back in space (round or cylindrical objects like your cranium or vase) will have softer/blurrier edges than flat objects (the flat face of your apple)… so expressing those contrasting conditions should help.
Keep up the nice work and good luck with your challenge!
Hi Jessica,
I like the painting set-up and I like the manner in which you are approaching it. I do think that the values are becoming a little convoluted so I made a draw-over where I kind of took a few steps back, minimized the highlights, kept the objects divided into simple light and shadow values and made sure that there are no repetitions in values. It’s extremely important to put in the table plane and make sure the background is relatively flat but with a gradient going from light to dark from the left side to the right. That gradient could be preserved on all elongated planes, because it’ll further emphasize their fact that the light is coming from the left side.
All the other details will fall into place if you take these few steps back to “regroup.”
Keep up the good work and I’d love to see where you take this.
Iliya
I mustered up the energy to paint some of the table.. honestly I need to get painting early rather than later. I want to finish this soon, I don’t want to drag this out as it’s a study..
I received such wonderful feedback from Ian and Iliya that I truly appreciate so much. I will respond to both of your messages asap, thanks for your great advice.
hey Jessica,
it’s really cool to see your work from start to finish
keep doing your thing, looks great
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