Water soluble oil on 12" x 16" canvas
Phew! Finished it! (I think?!)
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Thanks Ningning! Everyone's advice was very helpful & appreciated!
jessica, What a lucky girl you are. I love this one and learned a lot from those valuable comments.
Thanks a lot for your encouraging comments, Michael! Hope I have time to work on this a little before the deadline, but if not, still feel I've learned something here! The water was the most difficult part for me.
happy to see that you used your own design! Your revised composition looks good. All your distant, muted colors are very well painted. Your water looks good with the gradations handled quite well! Agree with Stu on his assessment of the building area....
Absolutely right!!!
Thank you Silvana! It's a fun one to do, isn't it? Lots to learn too.
I like your new design, and specially the back bd and boats!
Thanks very much for your comments Dor, Ngaire & Laura! And thank you very much Stu for your detailed analysis - I appreciate the time you took to give me your feedback. I see what you mean about the competition for the focal point - first I did have the rest of the building darker, but I boosted the chroma because I thought it was a bit boring! I guess I overdid it! I found it a challenge to figure out how to move the eye around to the back when I was trying to keep the contrast there low. I thought the highlights on the masts/boats would pull the eye back enough, but I guess not? The idea of lightening the water a little more in the back is a good idea. I'll work on this some more; thanks again. It's a really good learning experience.
Jessica, I did not see the one before, but this is very good. You have the atmospheric perspective well nailed down in your boats and distant building, but in your foreground building (the deck with the figures and umbrella are your obviious focal point because of their bright colors, contrast and detail) you have some strong competition for attention among your different shapes with their bright oranges and reds. My eye wants to stay there and not go back into the rest of the picture. The way to resolve this is by picking out the umbrella and people as your brightest color and killing the chroma (adding complementary colors) some of the reds and oranges on the rest of the building. To draw your eye further back into the painting more, you also could lighten up some of the distant water and at least the front corner of the roof of the distant building. You want the viewer to move around some in the painting and not just stay on that deck. I think you certainly acheived very well the goals of this workshop. Nice work, and I really like your figures on the deck. Stu
really nice Jessica. I love it!
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