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Eugene
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 4:43 pm: |  |
Luna Tiger, I usually don't frame paintings unless I'm going to put them into a show or try to sell them. If I frame the flowers, I will use a 3 1/2 in off-white mat. The off-white will give the whites in the flowers have more sparkle. The frame will probably be narrow simple gold, again , to compliment the flowers. The image size is about 14x14, so the finished size will be about 21x21. |
LunaTiger
| | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 1:22 pm: | |
Ooooh, now I understand.... thanks:) |
jdaneman
| | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:11 pm: | |
A value sketch is usually pencil b&w shaded to show the relative lights and darks in a scene. You translate the colors you see into depths or highlights. This allows you to choose your colors more accurately and avoid painting color only rather than observing the real tints in light and shadow. |
LunaTiger
| | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 3:26 am: | |
What is value skecthes?
...I only do drawings... I think... |
LunaTiger
| | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 3:19 am: | |
Eugene, you just didn't have to mention the colors are brighter in reality!!! *LOL*
They are great!!! Especially the flowers!!!
I was just wondering how you plan framing your flowers or are you going to frame them? I'm wondering because I wouldn't dare framing it in a traditional frame in fear of hiding the pretty flower in the bottom left too much... But ok, I know literally nothing about framing. -Sorry if I make you nervous for no reason. |
Raliegh
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 6:43 pm: | |
Eugene, there is much to learn just by studying these. 'A picture is worth a 1000 words.' I especially like the flowers. |
marie
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:22 am: | |
Your paintings are wonderful! Thank you so much for posting
them. |
Robert
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:03 am: | |
Eugene--your paintings show a wonderful balance between looseness and tasteful restraint. I like the way you use muted colors to great effect, bringing out the brilliant passages. I also like the way you use single washes without overlayering and deadening the effect with subsequent washes. |
Eugene
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:52 am: | |
The colors in the originals are brighter |
Eugene
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:49 am: | |
Ignore the bricks, I don't know how to crop.
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Eugene
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:44 am: | |
Some Recent Paintings
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Sugene
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:35 am: | |
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VJo
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 9:01 pm: | |
I also use a small sketch book and pencil. I do my shading pretty quickly. |
Eric
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:40 am: | |
I also use a 5.5" x 8.5" sketch book and use a set or prismacolor gray and black markers for light (white), light-mid, darker mid, and dark values. If I don't have the markers with me, I'll simply use a pencil. |
marie
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:14 am: | |
I keep a 5.5" x 8.5" sketch book in my paint bag. I usually use
black or sepia paint and sometimes make corrections in white
pastel. |
Robert
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 7:41 am: | |
How do you do you value sketches--on scrap paper, in a notebook? With charcoal or black paint? Curious as to format artists here use. |
