| |
Community
Magazines
Book Clubs
Book Stores
|
|
 |
 |
| Your interactive artists' community |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| Artists Network
|
| You are not authorized to post a reply.
|
|
| Author |
Messages |
|
herrerojulia
Posts:83
 |
| 12/11/2006 4:45 PM |
 Alert
|
Acrylic paints on canvas panel 18"x24".
I used different photos to paint kids and people. I received many comments in other sites too. Especially about proportions of a girl. She is in the same position on the photo. You can't see her neck there and arms is under ungle to the viewer. So...
I telling you this because I am expecting to hear this again! What do you think?
|
|
|
|
heatherm
Posts:2120
|
| 12/11/2006 10:34 PM |
Alert
|
| I think the little girl is fine, she is obviously leaning forward spilling sand from her bucket. The taller girl is also fine, it is from the height of vision that makes the underarms visible. Looks like the artist's point of view is sitting on the ground. All the postures to my eye are true, children use their bodies this way. This is another beautiful painting, the water is really wet. You have captured a fun day at the beach. |
|
Heather
http://www.heatherartist.com |
|
sammy
Posts:691
|
| 12/11/2006 11:09 PM |
Alert
|
Herrerojulia,
Paint as you see it and believe it's good. |
|
|
|
jjwoodee
Posts:86
|
| 12/30/2006 12:06 PM |
Alert
|
| nice done - I particulary enjoy the repitition of the three figures in the background. |
|
|
|
ronnie
Posts:214
|
| 12/30/2006 11:52 PM |
Alert
|
I love it and I see nothing wrong with the little girl,...Ithink this is one of your best!
ronnie |
|
|
|
one who sees
Posts:508
|
| 01/03/2007 7:48 AM |
Alert
|
a very nice beach scene...and the figures look nicely done too...especially like how distant details are softened, and not so strong...sometimes that is a mistake that can be done....
your color work evokes a feeling of a breezy summer day.....a very nice spirit to the painting...
there is something about that lil girl on the far right....though i am not sure its a neck that bothers me really, cause the girls hair would be obscurring our veiw too...but maybe that right arm is a lil too right angled...or the forearm a lil short? its not a huge thing though i was looking because you mentioned it... |
|
~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~
Vincent Van Gogh
www.bettyannlemist.com |
|
richard
Posts:626
|
| 01/03/2007 12:45 PM |
Alert
|
The foreshortening of the girl's arm is caused by the camera lens.
You should adjust your drawing to correct this.
Overall I think you've captured the feeling of sun and water beautifuly.
|
|
|
|
jbmerrill
Posts:274
|
| 01/07/2007 7:38 PM |
Alert
|
| Warmth and sun... Sand in your shorts as a kid. I love the colors, play with the shadows on the left bucket arm on the taller girl to move it forward. But it stands as is. |
|
Jim Merrill
www.workingcanvas.com
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -van Gogh
|
|
Celeste
Posts:75
|
| 01/07/2007 9:38 PM |
Alert
|
Julia,
This is exquisite - I LOVE the colors in the sand and the reflections of the foreground water. It's a glorious, late afternoon scene beautifully rendered. And look at the reflections of the 3 in the background. Wow! I think only an artist would notice the minor details that you mention, the effect of the painting far overshadows any mechanical details in my opinion. |
|
Celeste
http://celestevaughtart.blogspot.com/ |
|
janey
Posts:85
|
| 01/20/2007 12:26 AM |
Alert
|
Hi herrerojulia,
Your painting is very good. I like the subtleness of the sky, sea, people. They make me feel calm and free, I can almost smell the beach. The only one thing that I think is the sand at the left bottom is a little strong compare to the rest. It takes attention from the rest of the picture. But I could be wrong. Over all I love it very much. Good work!
janey www.janeypassion.com |
|
www.janeypassion.com |
|
tomtex
Posts:2
|
| 03/26/2007 8:09 PM |
Alert
|
| You have created a work that evokes memories of long past halcyon days most of us would like to relive. Pros: very well done sky, great color and values; the water is also very well done, especially the shallows in the foreground and the reflections of the three middle ground figures; the foreground figure dumping the pail of sand adds just the right animation to balance the turbulence of the waves; color values are spot on for most of the scene. Cons: the horizon line of the ocean domes in the middle (this is actuated by the domed shape of the clouds) and this unexpectedly distracts the eye; the calm appearance of the extreme right portion of the ocean is unbalancing when the rest of the water is so well depicted as alive with action; the right foreground figure is awkwardly posed, has problems with proportion, and is too hard-edge detailed to fit comfortably with the rest of the composition. For a simple trial to test my critique, I cropped the online picture from the right by placing a piece of paper over the right portion of the monitor image. I blocked off the right side of the picture from the right edge over to the fingertips of the upraised empty hand of the right figure. I found the resulting picture classic and compelling. The eye goes first to the child dumping the sand, then flows up the reflections to the three middle figures, then over to the right along the breaking waves, and then back to the child dumping the sand. I don’t know how much time you spent composing the scene, but the picture cropped down as described above is the type of scene I think we all would be proud to say was our work. |
|
|
|
|
| You are not authorized to post a reply. |
|
|
|
ActiveForums 3.6
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|