Oil theory test
Aug. 10th, 2008 12:42 pmI've been reading up on the various methods of achieving depth and lighting with oils. One of the things I read involved doing the underpainting in the opposite spectrum of the finished painting ... if you want a warm finish, do the underpainting in cool colors and vice versa.
The current oil painting is, for all extents and purposes, a still life. Yeah, there are goblins in among the grapes but its a still life. The grapes are lovely green things that glow even in the photos I took (which reminds me, don't spend hours setting up a still life of fruit to photograph without warning the Boy about what you are doing. My grapes kept getting moved and eaten and I couldn't figure out what was going on).
Here's the current work in progress.
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The current oil painting is, for all extents and purposes, a still life. Yeah, there are goblins in among the grapes but its a still life. The grapes are lovely green things that glow even in the photos I took (which reminds me, don't spend hours setting up a still life of fruit to photograph without warning the Boy about what you are doing. My grapes kept getting moved and eaten and I couldn't figure out what was going on).
Here's the current work in progress.
( images below )