After another day of painting...
It looks like the berries, stems and leaves were less intimidating
than the fence post. It all seems to depend on my mood when
I sit down to paint. I really prefer to work from "life" meaning
from the actual item rather than from a photo.
In this case, I had to work from other references because I
couldn't very well bring the fencepost and wire home with
me and the berries that I picked from a shrub on our property
when I was doing the drawing had all disappeared when I was
ready to start painting.
This means that I'm working from a photo, from memory and from
"Berry Red", a painting that I did last year. This is a pretty good
photograph from my little point and shoot camera but the red berries are
a bit more saturated in the actual painting.
I think that it's coming along pretty well now... what do you think?
2 comments:
Your details are so crisp! And the colors so smooth and velvety. I love seeing the progress of this!
Thanks, Brenda. I have a deep love of detail and try as I might, I can never seem to loosen up! The best I can do is to put a washy background in.
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