Today wasn’t terribly productive as I’m starting to wear out. I did one scraper because I started too early in the morning and the light chnaged too quickly to finish. At least I got two stages done. Probably could have finished it the next day, but I rarely do that (short attention span 🙂 Click here to see stage one, and here to see stage two of this unfinished, scraped study.
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Here’s the painting at the next stage, some block-in color, and I’m starting to add some warm/cool color combinations. As you can see, I removed the green tin on the right (see original drawing above) as I felt it distracted from the composition and I wanted to keep things simple. Ovanes will often stress constantly, create warm/cool variations of color to create a nice vibration for the eye. He said this is the main thing he learned from master Serge Bongart.
This is the finished study. Ovanes really liked the colors in the top middle ( red flower and the colors behind it). He advised that I simplify the background (which I did) as well as the lower left red flower. I’m happy with the sense of light in this painting, in particular the far right flowers and the warm/cool colors in the vase in shadow. I may add some bits of light to some of the flowers, as I like the sharp bit of light on the far right yellow flower.
Hi Ed,
Thank you sooooo much for sharing your workshop. Hope I can return the favor in the fall. This is very nice. I liked the scraped one, too, but I am partial to the brighter colors. 🙂
Jo
Hi Ed,
Thanks for sharing your experiences of that workshop. It was a delight to read about it and see your paintings.
Cheers…Nue
I am printing this one out, Ed. It is difficult to keep that ‘warm / cool’ stuff in mind with a brush in hand, but it is darned well worth it, as you have shown!
Mike
i like the color of the result..:)