So, I’m painting in a background with some wet oil paint brushes. They’re only for Krita 5. Only the dry oil RGBA brushes came already in Krita, I needed to download the ‘bundle’ of wet brushes, straight from the Krita developers. I love the greasy impasto oil texture of them. I restrained myself to trying… Continue reading Digital oil
Category: Art
Trav Travails
So, I did a grayscale portrait in Krita, and then started to do color over it. Well, I can advise, that your grayscale has got to be smooth. No streaks or splotches, unless you love the artsy look of exaggerated streaks and splotches. Now I’ll show you the screenshot of the work inside Krita, on… Continue reading Trav Travails
Digital practice iris
My hand-eye coordination is much better and I’m getting used to the program Krita. It does pay attention to painting, more so than Gimp. This is a big pic, for zooming in. You can see where I did details and where I didn’t and try to guess the brush presets (brushes that are preconfigured for… Continue reading Digital practice iris
Digital
I got a graphics tablet, first time ever. Ugee M708. I thought using the pen, I mean stylus, would be just like using an ordinary pen. But I got the tablet day before yesterday and yesterday, I drew this: The pen, I mean stylus, went everywhere. I even closed dockers in the program Krita without… Continue reading Digital
Nocturne practice
I’ve been painting a landscape some days, but they’ve been bad. I paint over them. This one was very fast and isn’t horrible. I smeared that bird in there really rapidly. The advantage to fast landscapes is that I don’t stress. It’s therapeutic time. And I can use the same canvas or board over and… Continue reading Nocturne practice
Copse practice
I was going to do a landscape in oil, a la Stuart Davies, but I got tired of waiting for my oil to dry on the old painting I covered. So today, I spent an hour and 20 minutes doing this one in acrylic, especially the Golden Open slow-drying: I did the copse of trees… Continue reading Copse practice
Watching landscape painting
If at first I don’t succeed…at painting a landscape, maybe the thousandth attempt will be good. I’ve been watching the videos of Stuart Davies, a tonalism landscape painter (nowadays) and trying to soak up some techniques. Today, I tried an afternoon landscape: Doesn’t really work on absorbent paper with leftover quick-drying acrylic. Maybe tomorrow I’ll… Continue reading Watching landscape painting
Open tulips
This is what I’ve been working on: If it’s incredibly bright pink, the monitor isn’t showing it well. I’ve read somewhere that quinacridone pigments don’t photograph well. The flowers are really a more subdued magenta.This is on eucalyptus hardboard MDF. It’s rather large, which is unfortunate, because I got extreme fatigue. Turns out I have… Continue reading Open tulips
Practice freckles
Practice on cardboard — in a dimly lit room. When I brought it into good lighting, I saw all the “dirt” instead of shadows, etc. But, it’s practice, so I didn’t care. I looked at this reference photo: https://www.pikrepo.com/fthqk/boy-s-facebut didn’t try to get an exact likeness.That’s such a cute kid. I love freckles.Of all the… Continue reading Practice freckles
Cheap paper
The paper is a Bienfang spiral pad of 40 sheets of mixed media paper, 9in. x 12in., 90 lb./146gsm. It costs around 16 pennies per sheet (U.S.). It’s really flimsy, but I brushed some matte medium onto it and that stiffened it. Enough so that I was able to practice on it. Actually, it’s flat… Continue reading Cheap paper
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