beach at last light

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Comment by kevin miller on May 29, 2015 at 14:58

Thank you Ann and Dorian!

Comment by Dorian Aronson on May 29, 2015 at 7:18

First off welcome to The Complete Artist!  You have come to the right place to learn and have fun.  

Nice painting Kevin.  Happy Painting and smiles to you! ;-)

Comment by kevin miller on May 28, 2015 at 18:17

Thank you Walda and Nancy.  I can't wait to try again another workshop.

Comment by Walda Juhl on May 28, 2015 at 8:15

I really like this "glow" you achieved! VERY nice color. Paint more!!

Comment by Nancy Sands on May 28, 2015 at 6:11

good for you, Kevin, for creating your own original scene. We all are learning so much from Richard that I know you will really love the workshop.

Comment by kevin miller on May 25, 2015 at 4:13

Thank you Craig.  I am in the midst of learning how to better use/ capture color so workshops like these will hopefully assist with that learning.

Comment by Craig Seaborn on May 24, 2015 at 23:57

Kevin I like your broken colour , this is a very nice painting on it's own! Welcome to CA

Comment by kevin miller on May 24, 2015 at 7:07

Thank you Montalvo.  I almost did not do this but then I thought, what's the point of paying for it if I won't even try?!      I am seeing a lot of really nice work on this site.

Comment by Montalvo on May 24, 2015 at 6:24

Hey.. glad you jumped in to try the Workshop.  Good job Kevin.

Comment by kevin miller on May 24, 2015 at 0:48

First time doing one of these workshops or really doing anything with The Complete Artist.  I recently joined VAA to learn how to oil paint and was referred to to this site.  With this workshop, I took the liberty of creating a totally different scene (using 2 different photos) and trying to create the same effect as Richard's painting.  By trying to create my own scene, I think I made this more difficult on myself because the original was a mid-day sunny cloudless sky. I tried to work from a notan sketch I created where the darker linked shape was to start at the lower right and connect up through the cliffs,  go left and up into a darker cloud mass.  I was not successful at using the color values properly to do this.  I think I took too much on by trying to create a new scene, figuring out how to apply a different light setting to that scene while properly mixing correct color and values based on Richard's painting.  I think the scene could have worked a bit better if I had spent more time doing some value sketches and color studies to get a better sense on how to execute this.  It was fun though.