All Good Birds Leave For Winter (Teach Me to Fly)

September 26, 2011

Watercolor

"I know our days are numbered, early bird of the summer

you'll fly south just as the fall begins..."

- A Fine Frenzy

In Progress...

I'm not working on a new painting for my intermediate painting class. I had a difficult time getting started, for more reasons than one... here are the first set of photographs (taken on campus) based on its progress.

I started by working up the atmospheric backgrounds i usually do, this time in blue. In all honesty, I was very hesitant to use blue in such a massive way, but I was trying to see into the future of the painting and it eventually back-fired on me. For some reason, it did not register in my mind that I was painting "the sky." So, being that this was not my intention, I knew I had to make a change, fast.

I painted a coat of white over the whole painting in order to remove the traces of blue. You could still see the hue come through, but I knew once I set the next color down, the blue would be extremely difficult to see.

With the coat of white still wet, i began to add my new colors. These included viridian and a subtle use of naples yellow. I was told it still resembles "the sky." I believe it is drastically different, although I admit I don't have a decent picture to show the painting's current colors accurately.

Caricatures, of Sorts

Random drawings from Sketchbook.

Green Mask

Inspired from a paper-mache mask I made about four years ago.

Pear Study (Final)

Here's a much better photo of the final result.