Anatomy Thread of Queensoul

#81

I suppose I better throw this WIP in here, while am at it. Oil on panel, my interpretation of OFDW 11.

#82

Nice work there, Queensoul! :slight_smile:

Check out the work of Paula Modersohn Becker, I think you might quite like her work! I’d provide links, but, well, you know, the nude images at work thang. :smiley:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#83

Hi…QueenSoul…:slight_smile:

You for sure left your finger print on this one,…nice style…took it far beyond the photo,
and made it yours. :thumbsup:
Only thought I have for improvement …maybe some nice colored shadows under and
around figures…purple and green maybe… and take that WIP off of it…and sign it.
Best one on here so far…but thats just my opinion…
Great to see your developeing style QueenSoul…can’t wait to see it in full bloom.:slight_smile:

TAKE CARE
Glenn

#84

Thank you Rebecca , I’ll go check out this artist.

Glenn, thank you very much for your support and kind words. :slight_smile:

#85

No problem, Queenie! I was just reading Glenn’s comments about your liking Expressionist works, and that is exactly the kind of painter M-Becker is. :smiley:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#86

A wip I started yesterday. Had to stop to let the first layer dry…Plus the turp made me violently ill . I always got a headache everytime I’d paint in oils. Just never put two and two together until another artist suggested it might be a reaction to the turpentine. Am gonna have to look into this seriously;

Anyway, here’s the little wip …just placed some of the features to take a look see.

Oil on canvas.

#87

yeah… superb :thumbsup:

Oil painting… my first loves… hahaha… very sad that give you headache Queenie… but the result is really pleasant… just maybe need more marked shadows and saturation… but maybe it’s only due to the photo or the lighting… in any case, I like the style… well done girl :applause:
About reference, It’s made with a living model or a photo, or only imagination ?

#88

Hi Queenie! I commented in the other WIP thread…
Have you considered wearing a mask (like the ones they use for sanding and such) while you paint, so you don’t get as much of the fumes? It help me a lot when I was doing minature work. All that glue and turps…

#89

Queensoul,

Just saw this in the CGS thread! Nice work so far! I think you’re going to progress quite well on this. :slight_smile:

I haven’t done a real oil painting in a long time, but I looooove oil painting ~ wish I could get back to it. I have some recommendations for approaching an oil painting ~ bear in mind these are only suggestions, and there’s no ‘right’ way to approach this. :slight_smile:

One great way to avoid that awful intimidating blank canvas is to immediately coat the blank canvas with several successive turp~thinned washes of burnt sienna. This not only establishes your mid~tone right away (the equivalent of the mid~gray I always advocate folks using digitally), but it also establishes the basis of the skin tones. For a fast painting, it can be nice to quickly coat a canvas (that has been gessoed unless pre~prepared) with a relatively thin (but not too thin) coat of burnt sienna. Let it dry just a bit, just enough to make sure it’s not runny, and then paint into the canvas with a small bit of white or yellow ochre to pull out your lights. Mix a black using a combination of alizarin crimson, viridian green, ultramarine blue, and burnt umber (roughly equal quantities of each, using a pallette knife ~ you’ll waste less paint that way). I usually use just a bit more ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson, but you can experiment and find out what you like best. Using black straight out of the tube is not usually recommended, but sometimes I like to use it to just quickly rough in a relatively thin outline.

The thing to remember with respect to skin is not to go for white right away for highlights ~ instead, use yellow ochre first, as that will be lighter in value by comparison with your burnt sienna wash. Using white just washes things out, and people can have anywhere from bluish to greenish to reddish highlights to their skin (the full spectrum, really). Try establishing as much form as you can WITHOUT using white, then use it sparingly to add highlights.

Also, I really recommend blocking the major forms in first, before going for details. There are lots of good painting demos online, I’ll try to find one later, unless you beat me to the punch, which is more likely. :slight_smile:

Sorry this was long~winded, but it’s a nice opportunity to talk about something I miss…:smiley:

EDIT: I just saw your comment about turpentine. Be VERY careful about this, and take your reactions seriously. As a student at a very expensive art school, we were not provided with very much studio space, and consequently I painted a lot in my apartment, which is probably the worst thing health~wise one can do. It has been years, but I feel that my system has been compromised ~ I sneeze all year, and my reaction to turp is part of the reason I avoid oil painting now. I once accidentally bought a cheap thinner that had listed as an ingredient Benzene, and this is one of the worst agents known to man. NEVER use anything that has this chemical in it.

At least here, they sell odorless turp, and there are also water~soluble oils. You may wish to try the latter (though they are more expensive, and have different properties than real oils ~ I’ve never tried them, so can’t advise about them. But it may be worth looking into.)

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#90

Lemog: Thanks. I’ll work more on the shadows after I have committed to the feature placements. Yep I must watch out for those.
This painting is not a class project. I based the pose on a singer’s picture I saw in the magazine. Her name is beyonce.
I dont want the painting to resemble her at all , just experimenting on her funky hairdo and pose :slight_smile:

Martin: Danny is gonna buy me some masks to try out. If anything, it’ll help with the unhappy accidents of sometimes popping the damn brush(fully loaded) in my mouth without thinking. I think the problem is that am painting indoors without ventilation because of the cold weather. When the weather gets warmer I can go back to my ‘studio’ which is our patio. And it has a big window I can open.

Becca: You, longwinded? Hell NO! :smiley: Its always a pleasure to read from you and to listen to your advise and suggestions. I had bought several painting DVDs over the holidays and am really learning tons from them. I have the oil demonstrations from Daniel Greene, Gregg Kreutz, Helen Van Wyk, Burton Silverman, Dan Gerthart (hot hot hot :smiley: He is a nervous wreck but great fun to watch), Perri Sparks, John Sanden and Tom Keating. Its really great pleasure watching these people work.

     In this painting, I have not used white at all, except in mixing my pallette.  Its gonna be fun. In the meantime, Bouggie, here I come.
#91

Here are a few tutorials I found on the web:

http://www.artistsanon.co.uk/self_portrait.htm

EDIT: Just read that you had DVDs…did you want to post links in the References thread? This might be really useful…hell, they sound great! :slight_smile:

And…OMG…never put a loaded paintbrush in your mouth…that is like asking for cancer! :eek:

'Night, Queenie…no paint eating, now! :scream:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#92

Ok, I’ll post the references.

#93

You know, another really good approach to this kind of painting, of which I am really fond, is to break the forms into chiseled increments, using your brush as the width of the chisel.

Too tired to do a demo atm, but I’ll try to post something later. :slight_smile: Do the DVDs discuss this approach? Mainly it’s about getting variation of hue / value / saturation into every stroke you make, and making your strokes define the subtle planes of the face. Maybe I can try a demo in painter later on, though I’m still pretty new to that program…:smiley:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rk

#94

LOL, Didn’t you go to sleep yet? :smiley:

There are like 25 DVDs :smiley: I have watched a few because each one is pretty long…the shortest is about 90 minutes. Of notable interest is the fact that each of the artists have a different approach to a painting. Quite fascinating to watch and pretty confusing to choose a path to follow.

One whose style is different amongst them all is Alexei Antonov, who paints in the way of the old masters like my atelier teacher. http://www.artpapa.com or http://www.1art.com
I would love to get results like that but dear lord, there are so many steps. I am afraid, I lack the patience for such an endeavor.
Looking forward to see a demo of what you are talking about though.

#95

lmao!:scream:

Nice to know you spend your days inhaling and eating oil colours?! They’re not illegal in Belgium are they:scream:

#96

Teehee, they are not illegal but my doctor in conjunction with my tummy may very well object vigorously :smiley:

#97

Hi all. Just got back from the academy and I wanted to post the work today before I lazy off.

Pastel on canson paper. The model is a director of one of the technical schools in the area. He shocked everyone by being the best model we’ve had so far. He didnt move an inch during the entire 3 hours except when the teacher called for a break. Beh, too lazy today. I’ll probably do some more blending later.

#98

Hi QueenSoul…:slight_smile:

Nice one…really starting to feel that there is bone under that skin…around forhead
looks great, all the planes are there…nice.
Looks like your starting to feel more comfortable with that pastel…nice colors and strokes.
Pastel…good medium to practice for oil painting.
Getting better with each one, it looks like, to me anyway…:thumbsup:

TAKE CARE
Glenn

#99

Nice work, Queenie! This is a really solid piece. :thumbsup: Glenn makes a good point about oil pastel being a good primer for using oils. And, they’re less toxic, especially when you don’t eat them. :smiley:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#100

Very well feeling with this one… really appreciate the lighting and expression of his face :applause: