More Figure Painting

Still doing Figure Painting. Here are the current pieces.

Painting the Figure

Yay figure paiting! My first Oil figure painting. Took about three hours, with a few breaks in between. Technically this isn't the final version, but I totally forgot to take a picture of it before I left class today. The colors don't translate well unfortunately. I can only hope that they become more vibrant as the painting dries. We were supposed to continue the figure paintings over several classes, but I made the executive decision (supported by my Professor of course) that this is a completed painting, and nothing else needs to be done.

New Approach to Still Life

So my painting Professor, in his continuing attempts to change our perspectives on art, has decided that our view of still life is too limited. We think too narrowly of it, not giving the genre the love it deserves. His response to our close minded thoughts is to force us to create a narrative within our still life that is of significant personal meaning. Mine has many meanings, I hope you find a few of your own.

Just started this last night. Very early stages, only two colors on the canvas at this point.

First WIP shot:

Musical Oils

Today in Oils, we had what my professor calls a "Blow Out Day". That's code for, "Trust Me, I'm Not Really All That Insane, This All Has a Point".

He started us out by painting blind (aka, eyes closed) to crazy music. We were not allowed to choose colors, just brushes. He ninja'd more colors onto us as the session progressed, and told us to rotate our paintings every now and then. There was even a portion in which we were forced to use our non-dominant hand to paint for a bit. I guess its not terribly strange, at least we didn't have to spit on anything this time around...

We then played Musical Canvas. You play Musical Canvas much like you play Musical Chairs, except you go from one canvas to the next with the music instead of from one chair to the next. The catch? Instead of taking chairs/canvas away and the like, you have to paint on other people's work, are forced to use very specific colors, often must paint blind, and are subjected to the whims of whomever is leading the game. The rectangular section in the middle of the painting is fron a piece of newspaper I had taped over the canvas.

Finally, we painted one last piece. We were allowed to look at the canvas, use any colors we wanted, and paint in whatever manner we saw fit. The catch? We had to paint with the canvas on the floor. Since that is no where near challenging enough, the Professor also doused the canvas in Turpentine. I am most proud of this one.

The moral of the story? The Professor was trying to change our perception, force us to experience painting in new ways to breathe life anew into our work. Also it was a lot of fun.

I have an insane Painting Professor. I love him dearly.

Oil Paint!

So I'm back. Back to school, and back to work. Which is always so...troublesome. Couple that with almost-crippling tiredness and a bug that won't go away and you get a sad artist. As a note, my internet has been odd since I'm technically on the 'temporary' internet here at school. I have to get things all straightened out to get back onto the network properly. Until then, expect things to be spotty at best.

Good news is that I'm in an oil painting class now. Look I have proof! (excuse crappy pics, I only have a camera phone at the moment)

My first attempt. We had to paint a simple form using only two colors and white. I had my DS. Yup. >.>;

This is technically the third oil painting project: A landscape painted Ein Plein Air. Yea the color balance is crap. Apparently camera phone + direct sunlight = bad. I'll take a better photo once the colors are more dried and I fix the issue in the right center area.

And this lovely thing is my current project. A griselle still-life, glazed over with color. This is only the first glaze of many, and hopefully by the end I'll have a more impressive piece. I'm still unsure of the display angle though. I paint it tilted like the first image, though am considering displaying it like in the second image. As a side note, all of those items are what float around in my bag on a normal basis. XD I'm an odd duck.