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Still Life Shapes (Patreon)

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2022-08-12 13:00:09
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Colors: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow Light 

Medium: Solvent Free Gel 

Surface: Acrylic linen panel (6x8 inches)

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Still Life Shapes

Colors: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow Light Medium: Solvent Free Gel Surface: Acrylic linen panel (6x8 inches)

Comments

Luca Varisco

What do you use as paint thinner and is it ok to keep the jar open?

Jennifer

I did this still life, I'm going to go over alittle some area reasons are desaturated.

Lynn Nelson

Great exercise, A great place to renew my art education.

Iris

I joined last month during your special. I haven't done anything yet. Hopefully tomorrow. I'm retiring in a month, 30 years of teaching elementary public school art. So after that it will be full steam ahead! I can't wait. Thanks so much. Iris G.

Jess Sweet

Hi! Super new member here. Is using a wash of color all you do to prep the surface? Do you use any gesso, etc? Is there a difference in surface prep for water mixable oils? Thanks a ton! Super excited to dive it!!

Sam Baker

I find this method excellent. I need to practice on the color mixing but I know that will come. When I start to paint from my own photos or ideas, how can I determine values without using Photoshop versions?

Bonnie Hartnett

I’m new as of this month. I’d love to see the answers to the questions. How can I get them?

jim

Got this one done twice. I like the outcome of my second attempt better. Still, I notice I have a tendency to venture into nit-picking, mixing on the canvas, and not painting flat areas of color. Will keep plugging away.

jim

One thing I did notice was, when I used a glass palette with a mid-gray tone, the colors I mixed seemed right until I put them on the canvas where they appeared darker. So I switched to a wood palette. The color when painted on the canvas was still darker but not by as much. Is it better to get a dark palette, maybe like a mahogany?

Dana Marie

This was a great exercise for beginners. I really enjoyed the small palette, I was able to make so many mistakes and easily fix them to my liking, nothing seemed out of place or out of contrast to the whole painting, you can tell what each object is and give them the effects to make them seem real. I will probably do this again, it was fun!

Judy

Such a pity there is nowhere on this site to show our work to each other and get some advice. As beginners that would be helpful.

Jay
>>125607817

You can share and get critiques-It’s on the Facebook group page

Mary Curson

I am working my way through each exercise. I am gaining confidence. The way I am approaching this is that I complete a Chris exercise, then I choose a subject of my own keeping in mind the skills Chris has passed on to me. I feel excited by the whole process.

Patti harris

Hello, newby here. This is the first video I’ve watched of yours. I’m an acrylic artist beginning to learn oil. Question is: it looks like you’re using quite a bit of gamsol in your base layer? Is that the norm in every painting? Is it true some don’t use gamsol mixed in their paint? I’m sorry, I’m lost. So different from acrylic. Thanks, Patti

Lynn

Good exercise

Laura F Kraljev

My lime looks like an avocado - loved the exercise and especially amazed that a painting can be completed that fast! it is rewarding to finish something you start the same day LOL

Emory Valentine

Just wanted to say that your tutorials also apply to Corel Painter. I am painting digitally until I can get ahold of some oil painting supplies, but Painter has my favorite traditionally inspired oil brushes. I used what I learned in your tutorial and my digital oil painting came out SO much better than usual! Translating between the two medias is a bit tricky but just shows you how great your tutorials are! Thank you!!!!

Michelle Rivera

That was fun and I learned an important lesson! Paint brand DOES matter lol. I was using the Hobby Lobby brand paint, and switched to some Windsor Newton and OMG it was so much easier and I needed way less paint. This was a REALLY good exercise-- I feel like I got my oil painting mojo back. Lol

Michelle Goldson

No one ever taught me this simple grid method before! It makes a difference when I do portraits I see the features bigger than they really are. This looks like such a fun exercise.

Graydon Smith

I really like how you broke it down into the 3 separate photos. I find I still need the grid to get better results but this way of gradually transitioning the colours helped me with my palette organization. This was a fun exercise

Beth Stage

I dont know how you see these highlights. I am squinting but I dont see the 2nd version when I squint.