(oil paint, A3-ish)
I thought I'd break out the oil paints and try to paint water. This photo came out a little bit too bright though. The paint was still wet when I snapped it (I stopped painting about 10 minutes ago) and the wet paint reflected some light in a few odd places. I still need to fix some parts, like the background water and especially the breaking wave which, for some strange reason keeps coming out square every time I paint it, but I thought I might as well post now. After all there are only a couple more days until this week's topic is done.
I'm also determined to actually finish this rather than call it a WIP and then forget about it like I did with my first few oil paint attempts. Hooray for me.
(Only after I chose my "water water" intro line did I decide to look it up and find out that it is actually a line from a poem called "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". I didn't even know the poem existed until now. Hmm, you really do learn something new every day. Thanks for that, Google.)
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Update, 17th August:
Photos don't seem to do the painting justice. Either the colours are wrong, light is reflecting off it and creating different effects, or there isn't enough light (damn you, English summers!) My first photo (up there) included a few details that aren't actually in the painting but enhanced the image somewhat. So I painted in some of those artifacts and, thanks to a great tip in the comments section I repainted the breaking wave to look less square. I changed the background water as it was too busy and repetitive and the shade of blue right in the distance seemed artificial. This is how my painting looks a day later. I retouched it slightly in Photoshop to get the colour levels as close as I could to the original painting.
It's getting there.
I plan to repaint the sky next. The blue doesn't feel right.
Beautiful...my favorite part of Earth is the ocean. I love the shadows and light. This is perfection.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'm glad you like it, even in its unfinished state :)
ReplyDeleteI love this. Beautiful colors. One suggestion. You see how your brush strokes around the wave go inward on both sides...on the right side of the wave, darken up the color to almost black and make the brush strokes go in the same direction as the ones on the other side. This will give you a more continually rotation type form, instead of the wave looking like a straight break. Hope that makes sense. Don't mean to act like a know-it-all, but you suggested you were having difficulty not making the wave squarish.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great tip. Thanks! And don't worry, I welcome constructive criticism on my pictures.
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