Category: Year 2
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How do you get to Broadway?
A long time ago, in 1997, I wanted to write better poetry. I would regularly get together after school with my friend Kevin Vincent. We would go to the grocery store and buy a few apples, and some limes. Then wed go to my house, eat the apples, chew on the sour limes, and compare…
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Tree of Rain: By Winnie, Age 6
Ok so how I made this was I took some Q-Tips and I dipped them in paint and then I tapped them on the paper to make the leaves. And how I did the trunk was I took a paint brush and I made a line down, and like a ball and some lines in…
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Rocks at Wooster Memorial Park
I took a walk in the Wooster Memorial Park after work one day this past summer looking for something to paint. As I wandered around the creek, I saw a rocky outcrop about twenty feet up a hillside. Just then, my daughters FaceTimed me, and I waved the phone around like an idiot, showing them…
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A Orange: #1
First of allyes, I know. Its AN Orange. I just think its funny to say A Orange. There really isnt a whole lot to say here about technique, I basically just painted in tiny sections, let it dry, and painted more tiny sections. Instead of boring you with a detailed description of how I painted…
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Eiffel Le-Croissant
I saw a picture by u/le-croissant on Reddit r/MostBeautiful about a month ago, and I loved it. (Instagram @the_casual_iphonographer) He gave me permission to paint it, so I gave it a shot. The first time, I hated it. Actually, I should be more clearI liked it a lot, until I decided for some reason to…
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Rocks by a Creek
I am waiting for some paper to stretch, so I figured, what the hell, why not trys something Ive never tried before? My brother told me that in Art School he once has to go outside and draw a picture, but he wasnt allowed to use any conventional tools. He had charcoal, and paper, and…
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Winnie at the Piano: #2
I tried that painting of Winnie tinkling on the Piano again today. I paid very careful attention to the proportions in my sketch, which helped the painting significantly. However, I am starting to feel like sketching so many details at the beginning results in coloring instead of painting. By penciling in every shadow and crease,…
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Winnie at the Piano
I took this photo of my daughter playing around on the piano a while ago, and I have wanted to paint it for some time. Today, I decided to sketch it out, and give it a go. I dont paint figures often, so I dont feel that I paint them particularly well. But Im reasonably…
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Tree Study
I wanted to paint something from my imagination the other day, and this is what I came up with. Its an attempt to mimic a style that I saw in a painting by Joseph Zbukvic, and now that I look at it again, I feel like its close enough to his composition to say that…
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Sansa at the Window: #1
Well, after all that work, I cant say Im exactly happy with how this came out. But, there are some things in here that Im proud of. The thing I dont like, unfortunately, is the cat. The left shoulder doesnt look connected to the right shoulder, and that disruption is enough to make it feel…
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Sansa at the Window: Studies
I have been having trouble getting the results I want lately, and I decided this might be due to the fact that I havent been doing studies of my subjects before trying to paint them. So, I picked a photo on my phone that I thought would make a good painting, and set to do…
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Along Came a Spider: #1
I dont have much to say on this one other than I painted very carefully, with multiple layers. I started with a near yellow neutralized with a smudge of Yellow Ochre, and added layers of progressively darker values pigments. I used Naples Yellow and Chinese White at the end in a few places to add…
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Its all part of the journey
in Achitecture, Animal, Failed Paintings, Figure, Landscape, Sky, Studies, Trees, Water Color, Year 2I have to remind myself over and over… you are only a year and a half into this. Im a sophomore in high school… I should expect to paint like Im sixteen. I have been running into a slew Of failed painting again. Im not sure why exactly. For some reason Im no where near…
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Lowery Lake Exercise: #2
I painted a lake cottage from Arnold Lowrys book today. I think painting from a book is a good idea for beginners like me because you get to compare what you did to what a professional artist has done. You can do the same thing by trying to create a forgery of another artists work,…
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Glitter War: Final
I bit the bullet and just went for it today, and painted that Glitter War painting my brother asked for a while ago. He lives in North Carolina, and they are in town for Christmas, so I figured if I paint it now, I can save myself from having to mail it. This painting has…
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Caudills Old House
My friend asked for a painting of the house that they sold recently after upgrading to a newer home. The picture she sent me is below: The first thing I did was try to think through some of the problems I would need to solve: The house itself is fairly small in this image, Ill…
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Downhill at Dawn: #3
I liked my painting on the 1/16th sheet enough that I decided to try the same thing on a half sheet. Ive never painted a half sheet before, so this was a little new. The one thing I knew at the outset was that no matter what, I couldnt let myself overwork it. I knew…
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Down Hill at Dawn: #2
I almost always paint on quarter sheets. So tonight, I cut one of those quarter sheets in half, and set out to paint something little. Im really quite pleased with it. The last time I painted this scene I tried about a billion different things. This time, I simplified. No surprise, simpler have better results.…
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Down Hill at Dawn: #1
Well, this blog is nothing if not honest. Tonight I painted a truly wretched painting. Which is a shame because its such a nice photo. While this painting isnt at all what I was hoping to create, I am very encouraged by it, because I think I know exactly where things went off the rails.…
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Edge of the Woods: #1
When we were at Malone Thanksgiving I took a handful of photos that I want to paint. This weekend, I painted the second one for the first time. The morning when I took this photo, the whole world was quiet. I was awake before Rachel and the girls, and I decided to take the time…