What's on My Easel
Still Life Wine Scene. I am using a 16 x 20 3/4 inch wrap canvas, primed and textured for background stone detail. Underpainting in chromatic black. I am using Winsor & Newton and W-Oil water mixable oils.
Colors are a range from cad red, yellow, orange. Raw sienna, permanent rose, Prussian blue, ultramarine blue, titanimun white and a cobra green light. I am mainly working with flat brushes of several sizes, and two large rounds.
I have added an additional light due to room not being light enough. In doing so I have two sometimes three light sources. This still life is from memory.
What I'm Doing
I am working on a custom piece by request. I have some more pieces to add to this still life. I plan on adding some fruit, grapes and maybe a another kind of fruit don't know yet, depends on what color might need to be added to bring in more balance. My biggest issue is I am liking this loose broken color but think Judy will want a more smooth realistic look. I shall find out from her before I go much further with it, it is a gift not a commission piece.
Advice
- The best way to do lights and shadow are to remove my much needed glasses, having the room kind of dark but not completely, so all I see is the blurry background, and when I apply the light where I think it is needed I then add my mixed shadows all done with glasses off that way I get the tone and perspective right too. I am very nearsighted, so this process works really well for me. So far the details and added colors have been done with my glasses off, this is much better than squinting for tone light and shadow with glasses on. I also roll my colors on with the paint thinned to almost a glaze.
What's the Month/Year?
11/2010
