This class involves learning the complexities of painting directly from life. Dual emphasis on exploration paint and surface, as well as the figure will be developed. This course will cover the history and appreciation of contemporary painting and will cover a wide range of painting techniques. Students will work up to developing their own personal style within the confines of academic figurative art.
The background color shares the brilliance of hue that the figure radiates. This makes me want to stare at the whole painting for much longer than i usually would.
I love your variation of value scale in this piece along with your other, the thick oil paint used in the pillow and highlights makes the whole figure pop out of the canvas. I like the blue and feel like you could throw more cool tones i.e. blues and greens.
The blending in making the paint look so smooth is fantastic. The fact that you created your values in color to look so subtle creates such a great effect and grabs the viewers attention. A suggestion I may say is to possibly just place the seat that he's seated on with the blue blanket to the end of the left side of the image because it just seems abrupt to me for some reason just in that area.
I think I would work on grounding the figure to the chair by incorporating flesh tones into the fabric and blues into the skin. I think that this is the weakest part of the painting right now because the fabric is cut off from the painting due to the lack of cool tones in either the skin or the background. I think the strongest point of the image is the sculpting of value tones. The smoothness really conveys the softness and evenness of actual skin.
The way you have added warmth in the figure renders the body as dimensional. I think you're figure has a lot of volume. Your figure could use more dimension in the face to make the features pop. The edge of the chair could be a bit straighter. Other than that you've done a wonderful job with proportions and flesh tone.
I really like the background, I think it was a good color choice and nicely done. I think the smooth blending and rendering of the skin model the figure well. He feels real and grounded on the seat. I think you should define the fingers and hands more, they feel like just basic shapes still and not fully done. I like the contrast of the fabric against his skin and the background.
Again I find myself agreeing with James; the smooth blended way in which you painted the figure alludes very well to actual skin, but the lack of reds, blues, and greens in the figure kind of detach him. The treatment of the background is done in a way that I would love to take something from! But, with the pillow, blanket, and figure all sitting on top of each other, there is no real clear depth in how they are interacting.
very smooth and nice tones, would have liked to see a little less perfect rounding. I think slight variations in depth added to the nice smooth texture could have really made this stand out, overall nice good color choices.
The skin tone you used is great and the blending you did looks so awesome! I feel like the figure would benefit from cool blue shadows and maybe some red. Although the figure is painted with browns, it doesn't appear flat because of your highlights and dark shadows.
I think you did a great job bringin out the lighter tones in the figures hair, and I especially love how the body is displayed as very sleek. I think it helps objectify men, which is challenging to do, unless they are purposely objectifying themselves. The only thing I might change is the upper left thigh. everything else is smoothed to perfection, then you get to the dark shaded area and it has lots of texture compared to the rest of the body.
I agree with James that you did an excellent job of capturing the model's skin tones, and i agree with Rabia that you also gave the model a good sense of mass and volume. Your proportions are also very effective. It does seem like the figure is almost too smooth though; his body is curved and his skin is flawless. He doesn't seem as awesomely cut as he is in real life. You're clearly doing a great job of paying attention to color and proportion, but i think also finding points of reflectivity, and places where there is sudden sharp light and shading from muscles would add a whole new level of three-dimensinonality to this painting.
some of this blending is awesome! the leg closest to the viewer is very three dimensional. the proportions of the body make it seem that the figure is squished into being smaller than he really is. youre an incredible artist with graphite and charcoal i know you can learn to do this
The blending of the flesh tones, highlights and shadows are gorgeous! I wish there was more shadows and variations on his hands and face. I think that that the use of blue in the blanket really works with the rest of the painting.
The background color shares the brilliance of hue that the figure radiates. This makes me want to stare at the whole painting for much longer than i usually would.
ReplyDeleteI love your variation of value scale in this piece along with your other, the thick oil paint used in the pillow and highlights makes the whole figure pop out of the canvas. I like the blue and feel like you could throw more cool tones i.e. blues and greens.
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ReplyDeleteThe blending in making the paint look so smooth is fantastic. The fact that you created your values in color to look so subtle creates such a great effect and grabs the viewers attention. A suggestion I may say is to possibly just place the seat that he's seated on with the blue blanket to the end of the left side of the image because it just seems abrupt to me for some reason just in that area.
ReplyDeleteI think I would work on grounding the figure to the chair by incorporating flesh tones into the fabric and blues into the skin. I think that this is the weakest part of the painting right now because the fabric is cut off from the painting due to the lack of cool tones in either the skin or the background. I think the strongest point of the image is the sculpting of value tones. The smoothness really conveys the softness and evenness of actual skin.
ReplyDeleteThe way you have added warmth in the figure renders the body as dimensional. I think you're figure has a lot of volume. Your figure could use more dimension in the face to make the features pop. The edge of the chair could be a bit straighter. Other than that you've done a wonderful job with proportions and flesh tone.
ReplyDeleteI really like the background, I think it was a good color choice and nicely done. I think the smooth blending and rendering of the skin model the figure well. He feels real and grounded on the seat. I think you should define the fingers and hands more, they feel like just basic shapes still and not fully done. I like the contrast of the fabric against his skin and the background.
ReplyDeleteAgain I find myself agreeing with James; the smooth blended way in which you painted the figure alludes very well to actual skin, but the lack of reds, blues, and greens in the figure kind of detach him. The treatment of the background is done in a way that I would love to take something from! But, with the pillow, blanket, and figure all sitting on top of each other, there is no real clear depth in how they are interacting.
ReplyDeletevery smooth and nice tones, would have liked to see a little less perfect rounding. I think slight variations in depth added to the nice smooth texture could have really made this stand out, overall nice good color choices.
ReplyDeleteThe skin tone you used is great and the blending you did looks so awesome! I feel like the figure would benefit from cool blue shadows and maybe some red. Although the figure is painted with browns, it doesn't appear flat because of your highlights and dark shadows.
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job bringin out the lighter tones in the figures hair, and I especially love how the body is displayed as very sleek. I think it helps objectify men, which is challenging to do, unless they are purposely objectifying themselves. The only thing I might change is the upper left thigh. everything else is smoothed to perfection, then you get to the dark shaded area and it has lots of texture compared to the rest of the body.
ReplyDeleteI agree with James that you did an excellent job of capturing the model's skin tones, and i agree with Rabia that you also gave the model a good sense of mass and volume. Your proportions are also very effective. It does seem like the figure is almost too smooth though; his body is curved and his skin is flawless. He doesn't seem as awesomely cut as he is in real life. You're clearly doing a great job of paying attention to color and proportion, but i think also finding points of reflectivity, and places where there is sudden sharp light and shading from muscles would add a whole new level of three-dimensinonality to this painting.
ReplyDeletesome of this blending is awesome! the leg closest to the viewer is very three dimensional. the proportions of the body make it seem that the figure is squished into being smaller than he really is. youre an incredible artist with graphite and charcoal i know you can learn to do this
ReplyDeleteThe blending of the flesh tones, highlights and shadows are gorgeous! I wish there was more shadows and variations on his hands and face. I think that that the use of blue in the blanket really works with the rest of the painting.
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