Paint Basket Art Forum

Author Topic: PA - LESSON #3 - Farm House  (Read 39251 times)

NHC50

  • Artist
  • *
  • Posts: 3341
Reply #45 on: February 06, 2014, 08:49:24 PM
Dennis question. The brown that you first put down on the shadow side of the buildings. was it a dark or med brown?
Thanks Nina
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the ground each morning, the devil says. "OH NO, SHES UP!"


Dorothyofoz

  • Paint Brush
  • *
  • Posts: 539
Reply #46 on: February 08, 2014, 01:35:27 AM
Dennis, I'm constantly having the same problem. Every time I rub the pastels with my finger I seem to be taking away colour instead of pushing it into the paper.


I can't seem to get the depth of colour you achieve with the farm house. I'm using the darkest I have but I can still see the paper through it.


What am I doing wrong????  :crazy2:
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
C. S. Lewis
 :hug:


dennis

  • Administrator
  • Master Artist
  • *
  • Posts: 8709
Reply #47 on: February 08, 2014, 02:08:42 AM
Sorry for the delay in answering - had computer problems. Had to spend time removing malware and spyware, etc., that had slipped passed my supposed to be very excellent anti-virus program.

Nina, I really can't remember which brown I used as I am used to painting by instinct with pastels (and oils). The safest way is to use the lightest colour first, and if not dark enough, then use the darker one. I actually applied the colour with a very light pressure (light stroking action) remembering that when smudged it will appear darker.


Dorothy, if you look carefully you will see that I often use several layers of pastel to achieve the result I am aiming for. Sometimes I fix the colours in between them - not always.


I personally like to block in the basic colours and then press them into the paper to form a solid base for the subsequent layers. (fat over the lean)
You are what you THINK about - Napoleon Hill


C.Bodine

  • Canvas
  • *
  • Posts: 2882
Reply #48 on: February 08, 2014, 03:39:28 AM
Wow! You guys are really doing great on the pastel classes!  O0  :clap:
Christina


jillh

  • Easel
  • *
  • Posts: 1957
Reply #49 on: February 08, 2014, 05:23:29 PM
I so enjoyed painting the farm house.
Jill
"What is easy to do is also easy not to do.  That's the difference between success and failure, between daydreams and ambitions"


dennis

  • Administrator
  • Master Artist
  • *
  • Posts: 8709
Reply #50 on: February 08, 2014, 05:50:59 PM
Excellent, Jill. Well done  :clap: :clap: :clap:
Just don't forget the highlight on the tree trunk. It has to have sun on  it in order to be able to cast that shadow  O0  Lovely foreground.
You are what you THINK about - Napoleon Hill


jillh

  • Easel
  • *
  • Posts: 1957
Reply #51 on: February 08, 2014, 07:04:05 PM
Thank You Dennis.  I will fix that right now.
Jill
"What is easy to do is also easy not to do.  That's the difference between success and failure, between daydreams and ambitions"


MaryAnne Long

  • Global Moderator
  • Master Artist
  • *****
  • Posts: 14975
  • Oh, my! ART!
    • Long Lost Art by MaryAnne Long
Reply #52 on: February 08, 2014, 07:28:05 PM
Jill h

Another beauty!!  Your pinkish colors are reminiscent of bricks.  My eyes are being drawn too easily to the two bright windows on the second floor.  Maybe tone down the brightness just a bit.

Otherwise, it's just beautiful.

aloha

mea
A day without art is like a day without sunshine.


jillh

  • Easel
  • *
  • Posts: 1957
Reply #53 on: February 08, 2014, 07:46:16 PM
Thank you Mea.  I see what you mean.... I'll do that.
Jill
"What is easy to do is also easy not to do.  That's the difference between success and failure, between daydreams and ambitions"


Bev S.

  • Canvas
  • *
  • Posts: 2069
Reply #54 on: February 08, 2014, 08:59:57 PM
Finally finished my free hand rendition of the farm house!! I took so many liberties with the ref. photo, that I'll be surprised if anyone recognises it!!
My very first adventure into the world of pastels tells me that I don't think pastels and I get along very well,  and I should  just go back to the pencil classes where I belong. There is nothing about this painting that appeals to me. But, it was kinda fun messing about with the chalks!
Thanks Dennis, you gave a tremendous class!!
I live to draw and paint, it a good thing that I don't have to draw and paint to live!


Lisa From Oto

  • Easel
  • *
  • Posts: 1236
Reply #55 on: February 08, 2014, 09:13:50 PM
 :clap: Bev I like it.  You have done an awesome job.

The only thing, and I say this knowing the only pastel I have done is teaching in a classroom of 7yr to 13 yr old children  :blush:, I feel the back of the house is somehow lost to the eye but I am not sure how you would change it or even if it should be  :blush: ing again.  Feel free to ignore me completely  :idiot2: :P ;D
Aroha! Lisa :-)


MaryAnne Long

  • Global Moderator
  • Master Artist
  • *****
  • Posts: 14975
  • Oh, my! ART!
    • Long Lost Art by MaryAnne Long
Reply #56 on: February 08, 2014, 09:50:04 PM
Nice try, Bev.  I see what Lisa means about the far side of the house looking like it's missing.

Otherwise, you were brave to try the pastels.

aloha

mea
A day without art is like a day without sunshine.


Steven

  • Paint Brush
  • *
  • Posts: 830
Reply #57 on: February 08, 2014, 10:06:14 PM
  Nice work Jill your shading on the house is very nice, the roof and sunward side of the house just glow.  I must have glazed over in the lesson when the pond was mentioned, it rounds out that left side nicely.

Oh!  That pond!  Bev, when you said pond I thought you were pulling my leg  ;)  I like the colors you used on the house, it looks a lot more like stone with the yellow hues, and I knew you would not be able to resist landscaping the place with bushes! O0  Don't throw in the towel just yet on pastels, drawing with a noodle is just different than having the tight control as with a pencil, for me it makes me think harder before putting color to the paper. :sweat:
Steven

We are all tourists in this life...  it's not the destination we should strive for, it's all in the journey!


Alice L Lemke

  • Paint
  • *
  • Posts: 227
Reply #58 on: February 08, 2014, 11:03:16 PM

I completely scrubbed off the background with my Silver Scrubber brushes and re-did the trees, too.  I still don't like it, but it's time to move on.  I wonder if it's the paper - 300 lb Aquarelle Arches (Canson) 9"x12" block.  The paper is very rough and soaks up water like a sponge, then rips if you try to do anything to it.  It's great if you just lay down the pigment and let it lay there undisturbed. Pastel looks like crayon drawing.  That's it, no more blocks!

I just came back from a trip to www.DeviantArt.com.  Wow, what a humbling experience.  I thought I could handle it, but no, I'm not ready for that yet. Those people are professional artists.
"There's no such thing as 'genius,' it's hard work and aptitude!" Ed Whitney quoted by Tony Couch, 2014


CAROLYN from New Jersey

  • Color Wheel
  • *
  • Posts: 61
Reply #59 on: February 08, 2014, 11:27:44 PM
 :clap: :clap: :clap:  Wow... everyone's farm house is great!  You all did a wonderful Job!


 

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2023, SimplePortal