June 21, 2011

Pelican painting

20x40cm, Daler Rowney 300gr.
My inspiration about birds lives here and here.

June 18, 2011

3 in 1


My mom's photo from mid 60's. She is around 30 years  old here, studies in medical high school, lives with her sister in smallest flat possible and works as nurse. So there is no funds for expensive clothes, but look how elegant she is. The reason I am posting her photo here, well, I like it very much. And I sent it to Sartorialist blog (here), to be presented (maybe) in "Vintage photo" section of this wonderful fashion edition.

Today I collected my next oil sketch from the drawing class, the background full of rose fabrics looks very  defiantly)).
And music, it sounds so good.


Now, when "3 in 1" is completed, I wish you great week-end!

June 16, 2011

Sketchbook #3


My sketchbook #3 was full today. 9 months and 65 pages of experience, joy and pleasure. The final pages were filled today at my parents place, surrounded by the summer in full bloom and patient parents, ready to pose for the "famous to be soon" artist as long as needed for the masterpiece to be created.))



June 11, 2011

Jeanne Dobie About Greens

24x32cm, Lana paper

In her next chapter Jeanne Dobie explains how to avoid muddy, chalky, overmixed greens, how to make them transparent and natural. She makes color charts, explaining the amounts and sequence (my chart is here). It is interesting that she does not mix yellow and blue (as I usually do), but she takes cool green, cool yellow and adds a bit of red for the change of tone, temperature and color.
15x22, Sketchbook

Here are my two attempts. It looks like I have to read and practice this lesson for the second time..

The first sketch was inspired by photo of Petrea Burchard, and I draw the second one when opened the car door at the parking near my work place today (amazing how much beauty we miss when driving).
This is the book I learn from and post my lessons here: 

June 8, 2011

Girl


New portrait from my drawing class. First portrait in oils, actually. I am happy how it turned out. Extra pleasure was to put the white dots and make her eyes shine like crazy. The real girl, model, did not recognize herself. But, nevertheless, praised me for the result.
Oils, 30x40cm

June 7, 2011

New Book


At last I have enough time for new book on my desk. I started to learn from Jeanne Dobie's "Making color sing" and enjoyed every page of it.
I will post here my steps.

Her basic transparent palette is
Aureolin (cool yellow), rose madder (cool red), cobalt blue (cool blue), Viridian (cool green).
Staining transparents:
Alizarin crimson (deep cool red), Winsor blue (deep cool blue), Winsor green (deep cool green).
Semi-opaque:
Cad. yellow (warm yellow), cad. red (warm red), ultramarine (warm blue),
Very opaque:
Light red, Indian red.
She uses also raw sienna (mixing it with aureolin (more) and rose madder) and burnt sienna (mixing the same colors but opposite proportion).

  The sketch above is nothing about composition, but a lot about mixes of greys from the book (she names them "mouse power". All colors in my sketch were the mixtures of three primaries, varying sequence, amount and consistency of  colors. Who could guess grey able to look so variously??

Here is the study of the greys with the indication of the ingredients. Upper row shows how the compliment to the dominant color in grey mixture starts singing when in right company.
I have never made color charts, so new experience is very interesting.
The book is completed with amazing illustrations of Jeanne's paintings, so inspiring.


June 3, 2011

Urban and Country Sketching


The part of the mansion of 18th century in Kuskovo (link to WIKI about this beautiful place). From the sketchbook. I was trying my new waterproof Pigma Micron pen. It was good.
And more sketches from my two days trip to the country. I tried to draw stones, faces, buildings with more or less success.
They were planned to be stones, actually
When water supply arranged from the bucket
10min sketch
10min sketch

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