My colors are too saturated in the foreground. I should have added more shades of the red/brown. And I didn't leave enough time to finish the ocean. How can I improve the ocean perspective and depth?
ps. I'm not going to lie...the color picker helped me! I couldn't tell the dark windows were a dark orange/brown. How do you normally think about those darks when you do your own paintings?
That's pretty good Nichole! But I hope you only used the eyedropper tool at the end to check but not to fix your mistakes :)
Now when you paint from reference don't just try to copy the colors. It's really important to ask yourself "why" things appear in certain colors. For example the shadow side of the mushrooms previously were blue. Why is it blue? Because the surface is reflecting the sky color which is blue. It's not visible in the highlight side cause the sunlight overwhelms the fill light which in this case is the sky.
In this lighthouse reference I can see a hint of yellow in the shadow side of the light house. The reason is that the surface catches bounce light from the warm yellow grass. So whenever you look at light try to understand where the colors are coming from.
Don't worry about nailing the atmosphere of the water in this piece. You did a pretty good job. All you need is a smoother gradient from the sky to the water.
Keep going and really analyze the light. Spend some time just looking at the reference and maybe take down some notes before you start. That might help to understand lighting more quickly.
I just read these comments. And that was after I started the Stripe light house painting.
I will def try and use these notes the next time. It is making more sense now.
PS. I technically finished "stripe house" on Friday. I could only post it now and it's 1am. So hopefully we can still count it as a consecutive painting!
My colors are too saturated in the foreground.
ReplyDeleteI should have added more shades of the red/brown.
And I didn't leave enough time to finish the ocean.
How can I improve the ocean perspective and depth?
ps. I'm not going to lie...the color picker helped me!
I couldn't tell the dark windows were a dark orange/brown.
How do you normally think about those darks when you do your own paintings?
That's pretty good Nichole! But I hope you only used the eyedropper tool at the end to check but not to fix your mistakes :)
ReplyDeleteNow when you paint from reference don't just try to copy the colors. It's really important to ask yourself "why" things appear in certain colors. For example the shadow side of the mushrooms previously were blue. Why is it blue? Because the surface is reflecting the sky color which is blue. It's not visible in the highlight side cause the sunlight overwhelms the fill light which in this case is the sky.
In this lighthouse reference I can see a hint of yellow in the shadow side of the light house. The reason is that the surface catches bounce light from the warm yellow grass. So whenever you look at light try to understand where the colors are coming from.
Don't worry about nailing the atmosphere of the water in this piece. You did a pretty good job. All you need is a smoother gradient from the sky to the water.
Keep going and really analyze the light. Spend some time just looking at the reference and maybe take down some notes before you start. That might help to understand lighting more quickly.
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ReplyDeleteI just read these comments.
DeleteAnd that was after I started the Stripe light house painting.
I will def try and use these notes the next time.
It is making more sense now.
PS. I technically finished "stripe house" on Friday. I could only post it now and it's 1am. So hopefully we can still count it as a consecutive painting!