Progression: Aunt Val's Painting

Hello Friends.

I have been dragging my feet because I was really trying to do it Cezanne style.  Tonight I said Eff that.  I just tried to get lost.  It was all about trying to get those bricks to look like something, and then add a little of the beginnings of a landscape.  

It was hard to get into the groove tonight.  I was going back and forth feeling bad that I wasn't terribly panicked that my Grandfather is in the Hospital... again.  I am concerned, however, I feel kind of guilty when I'm not wrought with panic about it, since that was my norm for most of my life.  But since I am healing of all that... I think he will make it to his 84th? birthday this summer... just like I will make it to my 35th.  If not, I will punch myself in the face later about it.

 So when I stopped feeling bad that I wasn't feeling bad... I painted a snake in the grass.  And then everything started to flow.  Flowers went in, little things were fixed.  I must get rid of that bread and fix that bottle a bit, but so far good rough in of the flowers, and placing of the landscape outlines.  I'll paint over the snake eventually... but for now, he's my cheerleader.

 I really hate the bread thing,  I'm going to change it to crackers and cheese and more grapes because I kind of hate the grapes right now too since they are waiting on the wine bottle to be a different color and better.  Then the grapes will cover that edge of the bottle and look a little more like a bunch of grapes that aren't, weird.  Wine glass will go in soon.  I will try to focus on a nice sunbeam making its way into the scene too.  Let's see if I can successfully do that... (not confident...lol)

I'm a little tired, so I'm sorry about the "eh" style of writing tonight.  I just wanted to get some photos up since I do kinda love the energy that went in for the last hour which was happy and playful  which is me, and so it's looking a lot more fun then it did.  :)  No fancy links or tags tonight... later maybe...

Enya was not listened to high school painting class friends, because I don't have any on my computer.  A mix of Deep Forest, Faith No More, Return of the King, and some other stuff I can't remember right now on shuffle from my collection was vaguely present in my awareness during the zone though :)

Happy Tuesday!

Aunt Val's Painting

In High School I painted a still life in the style of Paul Cezanne.  It was the hardest assignment I had to do.  I was so frustrated with it I basically told my teacher in such a bratty teenage way, that I was done.  She pushed for me to "fix" a few things and I was like F-That, because it was me the class was waiting on to move on to the next assignment, and I didn't want to be the slow kid.  It still looks pretty good, but that teapot is just not quite right.  I don't care. It has character...lol

So here I go again, trying to do this style AGAIN.  I will get frustrated, I will be upset, but I'm going to get through it because it is for my Aunt Val, and I love her.  She just loves those grapes in the original painting.  Besides I had a ball painting the rest of the painting so this should go that way as well... it was just ... SLOW for me to pick up on the style.  Of course there will be little me-isms in there which you probably can tell already my base colors of Blue, Green, and Orange are already predominant... I will TRY to get more colors in there.  There's some red, and purple and some yellow in there already I swear!

So you'll be with me for a while on this one, but I'll post some other interesting things in between so we won't get bored.   

I was sent a few reference photo ideas for this one.  It is my first time using Water Soluble Oil Paint for an entire painting.  It takes a long time (I work with acrylics usually).  Oh and I like challenges. 

 

I really need the windows open for this one so it has been put off until the weather was better. I started the color blocking part months ago and the window in the painting was putting me off.  Mocking me, telling me it was "off" like the teapot so I figured it out working on that section mostly today (about 2 hours) So it's still in it's baby-stages but at a point where I can let you guys start following along with me.   

I hope to get some more interesting objects in there as time goes on, maybe some cheese,  but for now these are just place markers since what I really want to do is start getting the landscape in the window (I'm thinking Mt. Vesuvius) to look decent before I muck around with the table.  As you can see, I have set up my faux "still life" so as I get bored of either working on the table or the 'scape... I can switch easily between them without too much fixing.  The point for this one is going to be trying to get the light just right through that bottle. 

The photos aren't great of what (to the right) I worked on today since I have been too destitute to purchase new batteries for my good camera and these were taken on my phone,  the first earlier in the sun, the second with just my overhead living room lighting since it's now.. 2:30am.  I tend to over explain things out of nervous habit...

More soon!