I decided to start painting again. My buddy the Greek proved to be an inspiration as well as the likes of Gurney and my old illustrator buddy Robert Accornero. Below you’ll see an animated gif of a very bad early stage of a painting (first acrylic painting in a decade for me) and here’s a link to my photobucket for more pix.
I should probably explain my process. Photographs, Line Drawing, Tone Wash, Underpainting, Glaze technique. Personally I love watercolor and you can see that in my underpainting. I need to loosen up a bit while painting to get that same electricity going.
So remember, I was asking you what materials to buy and what not? Well, over at the art shop they had some brushes on a ridiculous clearance sale so I picked up a few of them (the bristles were decent for early stage glazing, but not for nicer work).
Most of my underpainting was done with a better brush but then when it came to putting a glaze over the underpainting, I started using for stage 1: cheapo clearance brush.
I barely touched the canvas, pulled back and the whole front fell to the floor. Thus ends cheapo 33 cent brush.
Consider it an inexpensive but valuable lesson: don’t buy cheap supplies. You would hope your surgeon wasn’t opting for cheap instruments before your procedure. :)
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Finally!
I should probably explain my process. Photographs, Line Drawing, Tone Wash, Underpainting, Glaze technique. Personally I love watercolor and you can see that in my underpainting. I need to loosen up a bit while painting to get that same electricity going.
Can you explain breaking your brush? I’ve heard of attacking the canvas but…
So remember, I was asking you what materials to buy and what not? Well, over at the art shop they had some brushes on a ridiculous clearance sale so I picked up a few of them (the bristles were decent for early stage glazing, but not for nicer work).
Most of my underpainting was done with a better brush but then when it came to putting a glaze over the underpainting, I started using for stage 1: cheapo clearance brush.
I barely touched the canvas, pulled back and the whole front fell to the floor. Thus ends cheapo 33 cent brush.
Yeah, crazy clearance.
Consider it an inexpensive but valuable lesson: don’t buy cheap supplies. You would hope your surgeon wasn’t opting for cheap instruments before your procedure. :)
Love that you’re painting again; hate that I have that Color Me Badd song stuck in my head now. Tick tock you don’t stop…