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Post by Martina on Jan 15, 2008 15:49:46 GMT -5
Sorry for the delay. Her are the photos for the new challenge. I hope you like them: I think it contains a little bit for every one and a little challenge for everyone too - fur, reflections, light and shadow, texture, etc... . .
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Post by papillon on Jan 15, 2008 16:25:01 GMT -5
I think it contains a little bit for every one and a little challenge for everyone too - fur, reflections, light and shadow, texture, etc... . . To say nothing of perspective too Martina! Nice challenge. I think I might take you up on your squirrel.
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Post by andrea on Jan 15, 2008 21:07:01 GMT -5
Great pictures Martina. The squirrel appeals to me too (in pastels perhaps) but I'm just in the middle of my first CP 'human' portrait so it may be next week when I get round to it.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 16, 2008 9:45:15 GMT -5
Great pic's Martina.
I just love that cute chipmunk (squirrel ) and landscape nice .
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Post by papillon on Jan 16, 2008 11:58:31 GMT -5
Here's a tiny glimpse of what I have so far. This is way out of my comfort zone!!!
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Post by grampybone on Jan 16, 2008 15:42:44 GMT -5
Here is a 1 hour pallette knife study of the landscape. In my rushing to finish, I realized I put the rock too far to the center which throws off the composition a bit. Also, the land is closer in the reference. Oh well... 8x10 Oil on canvas board.
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Post by andrea on Jan 16, 2008 17:33:54 GMT -5
Wow, you guys are fast! It certainly doesn't look like you are out of you comfort zone Rose. He looks really cute so far. Grampy, even though it's only an hours work it looks great. I love the reflections in the water, the sky and the contours the knife makes in the landscape.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 17, 2008 12:19:22 GMT -5
great work , cool knife work. grampybone
love the little chipmunk, so cute Rose
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Post by Martina on Jan 19, 2008 8:26:02 GMT -5
Wow! I agree to Andrea, I can't see where you are out of your comfort zone, Rose and I look forward to the completed pic.
Graham, I can't believe how one can do such a great pic within an hour and with a knife.
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Post by papillon on Jan 19, 2008 8:52:15 GMT -5
That's really lovely Grampy! Martina: I have done a bot more on the squirrel, but haven't yet touched it again since Thursday night! About time I quite playing about with websites and get back to my core business eh!
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Post by andrea on Jan 19, 2008 9:04:09 GMT -5
Yeh, stop enjoying yourself Rose and get back to work! LOL! Now I'm almost finished my portrait (depending on further C&C's) I'm going to give that chipmonk a go too. The pastels are calling me this time.
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Post by NAIR on Jan 19, 2008 9:55:50 GMT -5
Here's my squirrel (in watercolors) Ps:i've scanned instead of taking a photo and it doesn't look that god...sorry Nair
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Post by Joanie on Jan 19, 2008 11:57:08 GMT -5
Oh how cute, Nair! Good painting ;D ;D ;D
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Post by andrea on Jan 19, 2008 19:37:29 GMT -5
Good job Nair, very cute.
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Post by papillon on Jan 20, 2008 1:04:08 GMT -5
Very nice Nair - you're doing so well with the watercolours - you'rea natural.
My squirrel is done too though I still have about a quarter of the painting to go. With some luck I should finish it some time today.
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Post by papillon on Jan 20, 2008 9:57:35 GMT -5
I finally finished my squirrel. This is a largish painting - 12x15 in soft pastels on La Carte sanded paper. This is the paper my niece broght over for me from Paris. I found the hard pastels she gave me also useful for some of the detail. They are Conte` but, though smaller, they are very similar to few Nupastels that I have. So here is my squirrel:
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Post by Joanie on Jan 20, 2008 13:01:33 GMT -5
WOW, Rose........................that's fantastic! I thought you were only going to do the head of the squirrel but this is great. Very realistic. ;D ;D
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Post by briandavid on Jan 20, 2008 14:39:06 GMT -5
HAPPY NEW YEAR! every one.....Rose I love your painting and Nair I love your water colors of the squirrel.....I tried a quick one sketched with conte pencils...thanks for the fantastic challenge Martina...beautiful pictures. Best wishes, Brian.
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Post by papillon on Jan 20, 2008 17:07:37 GMT -5
A Happy New Year to you too Brian - it's always so good to see you .. and you brought the cute little critter with you too. Well done! Joanie- thankyou. The intention was to do the whole painting right from the start which is why I chose such a large piece of support. I posted the head to start with because I wasn't sure I'd be able to pull off the fur (sheesh that sounds almost sadistic! ) so I posted what I had then just in case I gave up. I did enjoy doing the twigs though which was when I started to like the painting.
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Post by andrea on Jan 20, 2008 17:53:34 GMT -5
Great job Rose, I love the fur, not sure I'll be able to achieve that. I'm trying it in pastels too and finding it quite different from CP's and struggling to get such tiny details. Lovely job Brian and Happy New Year to you too.
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Post by NAIR on Jan 20, 2008 19:39:01 GMT -5
Beautifull work everybody
Nair
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Post by Martina on Jan 21, 2008 3:45:14 GMT -5
Hi Brian and happy new year. Your squirrel is very cute. Rose, I like yours too. I think it is a great job. It looks like you have put a branch in front of your painting. ;D ;D ;D Nair, you are really good with your watercolours.
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Post by papillon on Jan 21, 2008 4:41:25 GMT -5
Thank you Andrea, Nair, Martina.
Martina: I laughed when I read your comment about the branch. In the real painting the focus on the branch does have the effect of giving depth to the whole. I don't know whether that is quite evident in the image I uploaded. But what made me laugh is the fact that I did put a branch, or rather a stick, infront of my painting.
In pastels I usually work from top left to bottom right but in this one I started in the center. That meant I ran the risk of smudging what I had already laid down when I started working on the background... and as a matter of fact I did smudge a little before I realised what was happening. So from then on I did what I have seen other pastelists doing - using a stick across the painting to rest my hand on as I worked.
Andrea: This was really a very big challenge for me too. What I can say is that as far as possible I tried to use the sharpest edge I could find on my pastel sticks and also used some hard pastels where required. I used short strokes in the direction of the hair growth much like we do in all other dry media and as far as possible I did not blend. Where I did blend (to get the colour I wanted) I went over it again with a darker shade (grey or caput mortum or something like that) to negatively paint in the shadowed tufts in the fur. I hope I have explained myself clearly... if not, just ask.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 22, 2008 19:37:02 GMT -5
all the chipmunk's look great. Love the softness of Nair's one . Great face Brian. Rose's looks like a photo.
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Post by Joanie on Jan 22, 2008 20:19:19 GMT -5
I particularly like the details in the squirrel, Rose. I too like the way the branch or stick makes the picture recede and look more dimensional. Andrea - Rose is right.......I think the only way you can get the tiny details is with hard pastels such as nupastel or perhaps a pastel pencil like carbothello's. You can get a sharper point or edge on these hard pastels than you can on the soft ones. I can't wait to see yours. ;D Brian - way to go! I love it. Glad to see you are branching out into other mediums too. ;D ;D
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