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Author Messages Oldest First Newest First CTBarb Posts:143 08/23/2009 7:09 AM Alert  Lavanya, I like your sky with its yellow and oranges bleeding together and the blue of the distant mountain is electric. Perhaps the sand could have been a bit darker. Linda, I'm glad you could join in. Your painting is luminous...adding the shadows makes it clear that the sun is rising or setting to our right. It makes it a more interesting composition. My only comment would be that I'd like to see the skin tone a bit darker since most of it is away from that glorious sun. Barbara hollyga Posts:106 08/25/2009 3:17 PM Alert  I think I have given up on this one.  After I got the one figure in, I realized that I've got my light sources all screwed up.  This is 11 x 14, acrylic on gesso board.  I have never worked on anything but canvas or canvas paper with acrylics and I have really been frustrated with this gesso board.  It is so slick that I was having a hard time getting the paint to do what I wanted it to, except with a very thick application.  ARGHGHGH!!  (Any suggestions on working with gesso board???  It looked like a good idea - - but - - ) Holland (hollyga) Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur Ashe - CTBarb Posts:143 08/25/2009 3:32 PM Alert  Holland, I don't think you have your light sources all screwed up at all. This looks great. You can't really tell from the photo where the sun is....everything is sort of back lit. I think the value difference between the sand and the first mountain might be a little closer. The figure is very good. I love the two blues you used for the mountains...good complements to the sky which you have achived a very realistic look with...I had trouble getting that wispy look. Good work. Barbara hollyga Posts:106 08/25/2009 4:54 PM Alert  Barbara - Thanks - and, I liked everything about yours and thought your sky was great! I'm not sure I understand what you mean about the value differencd between the sand and the first mountain. I kind of overworked the sand and especially near the first mountain - that blue was still wet and got mixed in with the sand colors - lol. Should I work on highlighting that area or making it darker? Guess I need to do that before I put any more figures in. Yeah, I know, I said I've given up on this one - - maybe not. Holland (hollyga) Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur Ashe - CTBarb Posts:143 08/25/2009 8:04 PM Alert  Holland, I think the sand should be a little darker. If you squint at the photo, the value difference between the sand and the mountain seems to be less than what you have shown. This is what establishes that the beach is in the dark and the sun is either rising or setting. Linda added shadows to her work, thus establishing that the sun was to the right. In the photo, you really can't tell. Well, I think that getting some of the blue into the sand is okay since it is in the dark and so should be cooler than we would normally think of sand. Looking at it again, I think I would starighten the line of the sand and mountain...the curve may have come during that overworking. I know what you mean by "given up on this one." ....I felt that way too when I posted mine, but now discuissing it with you, I am getting more interested in trying to improve my first mountain..the one closest to the sand and giving the wispy sky another try. We'll see...I want to try Freddie first...lol. That's the nice thing about these challenges, the reference photo is always here to try again. Barbara hollyga Posts:106 08/25/2009 8:30 PM Alert  Thanks again. Barbara. I agree about the curve in the line of the sand against the mountain. That happens a lot when I get to into one space and overwork - for instance, the supports on the sheds to the right - they keep getting wider and wider I'll work on the sand and the sand line some more before I swallow hard and try to add any more figures in it. I put this one off my easel this afternoon to start on Freddie. Got him all blocked out and underpainted then painted it all out to start over. I may not have time to do much more work until the weekend. This afternoon was an unexpected afternoon off so it gave me a little bonus painting time. I don't know when I thought I was going to find time to go back and do the older challenges, but I still am under the delusion that I may be able to do it. Silly me! Holland (hollyga) Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur Ashe - Suna Posts:217 08/26/2009 11:39 AM Alert  Holland, please don't give up on this, it's going beautifull, it's very nice. The smooth colors are giving the atmosphere of it very realisticly. Your sky and mountains are also very well done, I like the dark blue mountain also. Barbara told the other things about sand and the curve, I agree. But, don't be stuck to the light source, paint as you wish, I would suggest. As long as it looks good, it's well done.Your sky is really shining, very nicely done. --- Suna. hollyga Posts:106 08/26/2009 5:57 PM Alert  Suna, you and Barbara have convinced me to keep on going with it. I guess that's why I need this forum and these challenges! I think most of my frustration is with the slick surface of the gesso board - when I try to paint over a layer, the bottom layer seems to just come up or some other strange thing I have never had to deal with before! I won't use them again until I figure out how to prep them better. The splash of yellow in the middle of the sky is actually my flash but other than that the colors in the photo turned out fairly true. I used my cell phone to take this picture instead of my camera - guess I'll try that again. Holland (hollyga) Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur Ashe - Linnapoos Posts:43 08/26/2009 9:28 PM Alert  Thanks Suna and Barbara, I appreciate your comments. Barbara, I know the figures were cast into dark shadow in the reference photo but I chose to enhance the figures rather than subdue them. I do agree, however, that the skin color on all but the man and girl on the right hand side should have been toned down a bit so as not to compete with them. Lavanya, I really like the transluscent quality to your watercolor. It's lovely. Holland, I see your point about the light source - your mountains are lit from the left (shadows on the right) but the girl in white shirt is lit from the right. Easy fix and nothing to fret over or give up over. Your value changes (going from dark to light) are beautiful as well as your temperature changes. I like it. Linda
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