I have a new acrylics course, starting today! A whole new series of paintings that will be produced in harrowing ninety minutes inspiration-background-figures-details sprints. I've really missed that, and I had fun today. At the same time, I couldn't really finish my idea and structure it the way I imagined it. mostly because my drawing sucks. I supposed I'll just have to get better at that.
The idea for today was born when our teacher explained that in soft shadows, you mix in the color of the object casting the shadow. So I thought about the opposite: A grayscale world where color exists only in the shadows of people. Add a girl, a sidewalk and a dog and voila.
This is a painting where I'd have preferred gouache. I couldn't dilute the acrylics, or they wouldn't have been as black as I needed them to be, and undiluted, I had trouble getting them into all the little valleys in the paper. Maybe a canvas next time.
Comments
RidingTheRekingBall Says:
I think the atonomy needs fixing, but I understand if it was a new medium and you weren't used to it. But the legs definatly need to be longer, the chest shorter, and the head smaller
I like the sun, it makes it clear it's a darkened day-time world. I do like this, which is surprising - I usually like very colorful things.
Keep up the good work! I'm off to check your profile.