Comments on: Color Me Bad: Painting Again

By: MCF

MCF — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:51:21 +0000

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…

By: thegreek

thegreek — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:51:55 +0000

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. :)

By: Rey

Rey — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:20:39 +0000

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.

By: thegreek

thegreek — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:27:06 +0000

Can you explain breaking your brush? I’ve heard of attacking the canvas but…

By: Rey

Rey — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:41:20 +0000

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.

By: thegreek

thegreek — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:49:12 +0000

Finally!