I am making a stop in Tulsa. Not one that I wanted to make but rest from travel is always welcome. There is an antique show starting tomorrow and Sunday here, and here is their web sight if you want to look through all the goodies, drool, or see something you have been looking for and will have to travel up to have. The pictures are very well done and every booth has something showing is my guess. Enjoy the pictures if nothing else. Lots of Oklahoma is being sold, lots of toys from the past, and a little of everything it seems to me. Hey, an artist can't have enough stuff to paint in a set up.
I start a portrait class Monday. What was in my mind to do a class like this when I am beyond a beginner with drawing and painting and then doing it with a live model. ush..
There is an art show in Bartlesville, OK, Sunday at the downtown Catholic church also. So, lots of activities that aren't about Halloween or fall. Just ART.
http://picasaweb.google.com/109154226054630553480/VintageTulsaShowPast?feat=directlink#slideshow/5474558373238459218 ENJOY
Friday, October 14, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Painting skin color suggestions
For a Cracker...( hehe couldn't resist that.) : 1. a hunk of white in the middle of the face.
2 tiny bit of cad red light 3. Tiny bit of cad ( golden) yellow med. NEVER LEMON. 4. viridian green or permanent green for shadows. Warm-yellow ochre or raw sienna and red cad light for the ears and nostrils and ends of the fingers and toes. Cool=tan and green ( raw sienna and perm green light)
Under neck depends on the clothing: Deep dark red and green, lavender and blue and orange highlights around the edges. Study Reubin's paintings to understand what was just written.
For dark skin: Dark red, deep sap green,dark blue, orange, red green, and never black from the tube.
For Oriental:
Raw sienna, yellow ochre, Lavender, true reds and violets. Golden yellow. Dark blue and dark red for the shadows. also for Olive skin.
Now I know this is kind of confusing, but it gives you a list of what works best for the least change and variety in skin.
All the colors that our Portrait teacher has asked us to show up with. Now I just have to get my canvas ready. I guess since we have to use 4 canvas of two sizes, I"ll be busy doing that now. I used the suggested youtube web sight to tone the canvases: http://www.youtube.com/watch?=6NS3PQVOrcA. Or you could just type in a search of how to tone a canvas. Yipes. My head already hurts. Night all
2 tiny bit of cad red light 3. Tiny bit of cad ( golden) yellow med. NEVER LEMON. 4. viridian green or permanent green for shadows. Warm-yellow ochre or raw sienna and red cad light for the ears and nostrils and ends of the fingers and toes. Cool=tan and green ( raw sienna and perm green light)
Under neck depends on the clothing: Deep dark red and green, lavender and blue and orange highlights around the edges. Study Reubin's paintings to understand what was just written.
For dark skin: Dark red, deep sap green,dark blue, orange, red green, and never black from the tube.
For Oriental:
Raw sienna, yellow ochre, Lavender, true reds and violets. Golden yellow. Dark blue and dark red for the shadows. also for Olive skin.
Now I know this is kind of confusing, but it gives you a list of what works best for the least change and variety in skin.
All the colors that our Portrait teacher has asked us to show up with. Now I just have to get my canvas ready. I guess since we have to use 4 canvas of two sizes, I"ll be busy doing that now. I used the suggested youtube web sight to tone the canvases: http://www.youtube.com/watch?=6NS3PQVOrcA. Or you could just type in a search of how to tone a canvas. Yipes. My head already hurts. Night all
Getting ready for the next class
There is a class in Bartlesville, Ok this month. It is going to be portrait painting in oil by Mr. Kalwik. You can go to his web sight to see what lovely paintings he produces. So, once again I am in a tizzy thinking, will I learn and understand and grow from yet a new teacher? I hope he explains well.
I hit Youtube for information on painting and it is a wealth of artists willing to share their knowledge free. I am so grateful for their sharing. I went to George Allen Durkee's class. I watched Sharon Sprung paint colors on her arm to explain skin colors. I went to paintingcourse.net and watched one of their video's. One of the best was www.paintbasket.com to learn about trees and bushes etc. I think there are 80 videos on that sight.
I learned about oiling out a canvas. I need to get some stuff to try that. The gamblin sight suggested you use galpin paint medium and gambasol even mix ( 50/50) and after you paint it on with a brush you let it sit 3 minutes and wipe it off with cheese cloth. You can do it half through the painting when it is dry and just not at the finished work. Varnish is nice to use but not until a LONG time after the painting is finished, and it was to protect the painting and make it easy to clean the painting. The teacher said we don't live in such a smoky environment anymore to use that protection much. When you clean a painting that has Varnish, you basically take the varnish off and have to put it back.
I watched video's on color wheels and didn't know that both sides of the color make the shadow and medium color, so it would be easier for me to find the three basic colors on something. You add the opposite color on the color wheel to get the shadow, next color up on the wheel to make the hi-light and add the next color down on the wheel to make the darker color.
Did you know that 4 parts blue, 2 parts red and 1 part yellow makes black? I just bought a $16.00 tube of black. ush...
In my next post I'll drag out the colors suggested to paint certain skin colors...
Now, show me how to paint a face from scratch. That I didn't find yet.
I hit Youtube for information on painting and it is a wealth of artists willing to share their knowledge free. I am so grateful for their sharing. I went to George Allen Durkee's class. I watched Sharon Sprung paint colors on her arm to explain skin colors. I went to paintingcourse.net and watched one of their video's. One of the best was www.paintbasket.com to learn about trees and bushes etc. I think there are 80 videos on that sight.
I learned about oiling out a canvas. I need to get some stuff to try that. The gamblin sight suggested you use galpin paint medium and gambasol even mix ( 50/50) and after you paint it on with a brush you let it sit 3 minutes and wipe it off with cheese cloth. You can do it half through the painting when it is dry and just not at the finished work. Varnish is nice to use but not until a LONG time after the painting is finished, and it was to protect the painting and make it easy to clean the painting. The teacher said we don't live in such a smoky environment anymore to use that protection much. When you clean a painting that has Varnish, you basically take the varnish off and have to put it back.
I watched video's on color wheels and didn't know that both sides of the color make the shadow and medium color, so it would be easier for me to find the three basic colors on something. You add the opposite color on the color wheel to get the shadow, next color up on the wheel to make the hi-light and add the next color down on the wheel to make the darker color.
Did you know that 4 parts blue, 2 parts red and 1 part yellow makes black? I just bought a $16.00 tube of black. ush...
In my next post I'll drag out the colors suggested to paint certain skin colors...
Now, show me how to paint a face from scratch. That I didn't find yet.
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