Refresher after spring break Still life painting

Yikes, mouthful of a title, but as title says, it's a refresher from coming back from spring break. There's no glass but it recovers reflective metal and patterns. Ah, and of course value and colors. 

Landscape thumbnails

I pretty much just let my mind roam while doing these.

Filth Bird - The Secret World fan art

Portrait - WIP 1

Tea themed still life painting WIP 2

Oil painting still life - Story Theme: Tea. 

with reflective metal and glass. 

 

Slightly farther shot of painting and easel.

I up-ed the saturation on everything from WIP 1, then went back and toned down the saturation on the boxes to push them back a bit. If you look boxes in the glass versus the actual boxes, there's a difference, I hope.

We've started Full Value this week in Heads and Hands class

Two 60 mins ( three 20 mins) and one 20.

We used the pull out/ off with the eraser method. 

I also went ahead and bought a foam brush for smoothing out the charcoal instead of using my fingers. 

 

1 hour study (in 20 min intervals)

His hair highlight could have been done better but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Done mostly in charcoal pencil, my fingers and kneaded eraser. I used vine to tone the paper.

Still life painting - Patterns

As the title says, this week we painted patterned objects, though most were glass/ porcelain.

Character design for sarcastic trouble maker girl

Costume Carnival Spring 2015 - Saturday Morning Cartoons themed

 

I suppose it'd be more accurate to say 80s-90s Saturday morning cartoons with characters like He-Man, Jem, Speed Racer, Scooby Doo. Other characters from Power Rangers, Powder Puff, etc. It was great getting to sketch and gather photo reference for poses for roughly 5.5 hours. I had to warm up a bit being out of practice from pose drawing for about a year. I had Ecorche the semester after Clothed Figure Drawing and Heads and Hands this semester.

Metal and glass Still Life (WIP)

 

 (This is a partial shot of  the painting since I goofed and forgot to take a photo of it while it was on the easel, and had to take it while it was in the drying rack, after I had already cleaned up.)

Our assignment was to paint a still life with 3-5 objects, 2 of them should be glass and reflective metal.

Still life limited palette #2

This is from 3 weeks ago I believe. 

 

It's not quite as limited as the first  painting but it's still pretty limited. If I recall, we had only titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, cad yellow, ultramarine blue ( unless it was another blue, or both temperatures) and terra rosa. 

Still life - Metal reflection

 

I'm improving pretty quickly according to my instructor and I believe him! This week's focus is on metal reflective items. 

Things learned, reflected items are darker than their actual color, and to keep things 3-D, things need to wrap. 

I'll be uploading WIPs for our next homework painting, which will include glass and metal. My original items , while worked composition-wise, lacked a story cohesion. Right now, I think my new items will be glass cup, filled with some water possibly, spoon, unopened tea bag packet and 2 boxes of different tea boxes.