A Miss and the Aftermath

The upper picture shows what I painted today - a desaster of chalkiness. So I stopped it there and played with photoshop to learn what changes would make the painting look more acceptable... Higher color temperature, higher saturation, lower darks.

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Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 24, 2015 at 22:59: Hi Michael, thanks for the suggestion. You are right! I missed a chance there to learn something about glazing. I wiped it right after taking the photo :-(
I will surely have a similar case in the future and remember your words, Xiao and Michael. Thanks!!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 24, 2015 at 6:07: Hi Thomas, I do not quite agree with you concerning Xiao Li comment about glazing. Since you are going to wipe it away anyway, why not experiment and after it completely dries, put a glaze of Indian Yellow over the whole painting and then wipe back to get some sparkly light. I am willing to bet that this will give you the same effect ..possibly better ..then the photoshop version? Also, this would not be correcting, but enhancing your painting.

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 24, 2015 at 3:47: Thanks Jon! Hard to say exactly why i don't like it. Currently i do a study of a Jeremy Mann to learn more about this Type of subject.

Comment by Jon Main on July 24, 2015 at 3:35: Lovely subject/concept, I don't find is to be so chalky either!

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 23, 2015 at 20:26: Thanks Cristina and Xiao. I painted the lights fairly thick and with most of the colors not looking good there is no point to repair it. It is faster and better to redo it than to repair it, I wiped it off.

Comment by Xiao Li on July 23, 2015 at 19:32: Thomas, may be you can try glazing to bring up the glowing effect on your painting.

Comment by Cristina Mihailescu on July 23, 2015 at 13:58: Nice!!

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on July 23, 2015 at 10:11: Absolutely Susan, to play with digital images is a great way to learn certain things much faster. A bad painting cannot be turned into a piece to be proud of though ;-)

Comment by Susan Burke on July 23, 2015 at 5:56: Photoshop can be an amazing tool for an artist. I'm just starting to learn how to use it; but, I've noticed that I can study a painting and not see the problems, put a digital picture on the computer and they can jump out at you and then you look at your painting and think 'of course!'